Avraham Mor was an Israeli actor and voice talent. A founding member of the Green Onion (‘batzal yarok’) entertainment troupe, Mor took his first professional steps on stage as a theatre actor when he joined the ranks of the Ohel Theatre. He later went on to nab a string of roles at numerous Cameri and Haifa theatre productions, before becoming primarily attached to the Habima National Theatre for the remainder of his career. Highlights of his stage credits include The Megillah, Kazablan, Sephardic Garden (aka ‘bustan Sephardi’), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Emperor’s Clothes, Marius, Death of a Salesman, Quartet, The Spotted Tiger, The Life Before us, and A Visitor’s Guide to Warsaw.
Mor is also fondly remembered for his roles as Grandpa Nahman in the long-running Israeli children’s programme, Lovely Butterfly (‘parpar nechmad’), and as Kuba in Boaz Davidson’s 1986 cult film, Alex is Lovesick. Highlights of Mor’s other TV credits include Carousel, Sesame Street, Downton Precinct, Life isn’t Everything (aka ‘ha-chaim ze lo ha-kol’), and Shtisel.
Highlights of his film credits include Moishe Air-Condition (Uri Zohar, 1966), Fortuna (aka Seduced in Sodom) (Menahem Golan, 1966), Motive to Murder (Peter Freistadt, 1966), Sinai Commandos: The Story of the Six Day War (Raphael Nussbaum, 1968), Murder C.O.D. (Assi Dayan, 1973), Only Today (Ze’ev Revach, 1976), Kuni Lemel in Cairo (Joel Silberg, 1983), Lend me your Wife (Ze’ev Revach, 1989), The Quarry (Ron Ninio, 1990), The Last Love of Laura Adler (Avraham Heffner, 1990), The Italians are Coming (Eyal Halfon, 1996), and Henry’s Dream (Eitan Green, 2003).
