Lillian Lux
Pesach Burstein
['Sif', 'Authari', 'Pharaoh', 'Brezhnev', 'Adolphe Menjou', 'Rukmini', 'Menen Asfaw', 'Clarendon', 'Craig McCracken', 'Roy Del Ruth', 'Waldrada', 'June Christy', 'Clint Black', 'Gustav I', 'Adela', 'Smerdis', 'Jia Nanfeng', 'Margareta Leijonhufvud', 'Odin', 'Prince Rama', 'Prince Arthur', 'Kishar', 'Amphitrite', 'Tamar Braxton', 'Sheri Moon', 'Kevin McCarthy', 'Akhenaten', 'Feng Run', 'John Aniston', 'Edward Cullen', 'Kamala', 'Celeborn', 'Jack White', 'Fanny Brice', 'Emperor Akbar', 'shah', 'Camille Cosby', 'Peleus', 'Samuel Clemens', 'Willard Mack', 'Kay Kendall', 'Rossetti', 'Rudolph', 'Gwen Bristow', 'Ceyx', 'Frakes', 'Dionysius', 'Ferdinand IV', 'Thomas Boleyn', 'Ellen Louise Axson', 'Laodice III', 'Olivier Messiaen', 'Laodice', 'Pyrrhus', 'Felipe VI', 'Knut Hamsun', 'Cosima Wagner', 'Ono', 'David Lean', 'Christian VIII', 'Joan Plowright', 'Queen Elizabeth', 'Polemon Pythodoros', 'Martin Carthy', 'James Kirkwood', 'Macho Man', 'Dorothy Dandridge', 'Juba II', 'Arsinoe II', 'Cecil Womack', 'Vanessa Redgrave', 'Louise Erdrich', 'Richard', 'Leila Hatami', 'Gaius Julius Alexander', 'David Beckham', 'Helen Walton', 'Gary Merrill', 'Octavian', 'Queen Olympias', 'Anne Bancroft', 'Ewan MacColl', 'Charlie Chaplin', 'Eddie Fisher', 'Simeon II', 'Vanessa Bell', 'King Priam', 'Maurice Pialat', 'Saint Anne', 'Blake Edwards', 'Troy Donahue', 'Farouk', 'Billie Burke', 'Govan Mbeki', 'Crown Princess Sonja', 'Pierre Trudeau', 'Sara Dylan', 'Stephanie McMahon', 'Alberic I']
Mike Burstyn
Michael Burstein (born July 1, 1945) is an Israeli-American actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. He is not related to actress Ellen Burstyn (née Edna Rae Gillooly). He began performing on stage at Yiddish theaters from childhood, in musicals and melodramas produced by his father, Pesach Burstein, especially as part of the Four Bursteins. (Mike and his twin sister were billed as Motele and Zisele) in standard Pesach Burstein productions like A Khasene in Shtetl (A Wedding in the Village). He headed out on his own after reaching adulthood, in a bid to reach audiences bigger than the Yiddish stage. He has performed on television in the United States, Israel, and the Netherlands. He has performed on Broadway, the Yiddish theater, and on the Israeli stage. He had his own show, De Mike Burstyn Show (1978–1981). He was cast as the lead in Israel Becker's The Flying Matchmaker, an Israeli film. In 1981, he took part in the Israeli heats of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Sviv kol ha'olam". The song was placed sixth.[citation needed] Among his most noted roles in Yiddish theater was the part in his father's production of Itzik Manger's Songs of the Megillah (the longest running Yiddish production to date in Israel, released on Broadway as Megilla of Itzik Manger).[citation needed] Burstyn appeared on Broadway in Barnum, where he succeeded Jim Dale in the title role. He was nominated for Drama Desk Awards for his performance as Mayer in The Rothschilds off-Broadway in 1990 and in On Second Avenue in 2005. In 2009, he starred in the title role of the stage adaption by Joseph Bologna's Lansky.[citation needed]