Dov Glickman

Dov Glickman was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv

Dov Glickman was born in Tel Aviv on 22 December 1949 to Shlomo and Dvora Glickman. He grew up in the Ramat HaHayal neighborhood. He studied at the Renanim arts high school in the city.

He served in the Navy entertainment troupe, where his career began. In the 1970s he acted with the Haifa Theatre and appeared in the 1976 play Kriza.

His first film role came in 1977 in Paratroopers, and in 1978 he played the troupe commander in HaLahaka. For years he starred in the weekly satirical show Zehu Ze! with Moni Moshonov and Shlomo Bar-Aba. In the 1990s he played a flower seller named Shaul in Yellow Pages ads, which became the 2002 series Shaul that he co-wrote.

In 2010 he was involved in a car accident and was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. After he admitted the charges, a Tel Aviv traffic court gave him a suspended sentence and a license suspension.

In 2013 he took the lead role of Rabbi Shulem Shtisel in Shtisel and appeared in the film Big Bad Wolves. Later roles include Norman in 2016 and Laces in 2018. Since 2016 he has starred in the stage comedy Angina Pectoris.