Yiftach Katzur

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Yiftach Katzur

Yiftach Katzur (born July 17, 1958 in Israel ; also Jesse Katzur ) is an Israeli actor and management consultant.

Life

Yiftach Katzur began his career at the age of 17 in Peter Shaffer's play Equus . He had his first small film role in 1977 in the controversial political thriller The Honey Connection by Yeud Levanon . He became known as Benny in the eight-part erotic comedy popsicles . In 1979 he was an epileptic boy in Jesus - No one has moved the world like him (The Jesus Movie, 1979, John Heyman). Together with his ice- lolly colleagues Zachi Noy and Rachel Steiner, he shot the film The Ambassador with Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson in 1984 . In 1993 he starred with Zachi Noy and Anat Atzmon in a pilot of a popsicle series entitled "Lemonade" and also directed it. The series for this was never realized. His last feature film Gentila , which was released in 1997, won the 1998 Haifa Film Festival Award for best film . In 2005, he slipped on the Israeli TV special Ha-Secret Shelanu in a short film for the last time in the role of Benny from popsicles . In 2011 he starred in the Israeli sitcom Naor's Friends . In 2015 he was also seen in an episode role as David on the Israeli Disney Channel television series Disney's North Star .

Katzur has also been an entrepreneur in Israel since the 1990s. From 1990 to 2001 he ran a marketing agency, from 2002 to 2009 an investment fund for the Israeli film industry, and is currently (as of 2018) the management consultancy he founded, Katzur Strategies .

In July 2012 he became the patron of the play Lovers Boys , which is based on the popsicle film series . Katzur took part in the German documentary Eskimo Limon. Popsicle - Of Winners and Losers by Eric Friedler , which is dedicated to the same series of films and premiered in 2018.

Katzur is divorced and has a son and a daughter.

Filmography

Yiftach Katzur (center) in popsicles
  • 1977: The Honey Connection ( Kesher Ha-Dvash )
  • 1978: Popsicle ( Eskimo Limon )
  • 1979: Jesus - Nobody moved the world like him ( The Jesus Movie )
  • 1979: Popsicle 2 - Boyfriend ( Yotzim Kavua )
  • 1981: Popsicle 3 - Liebeleien ( Shifshoof Nayim )
  • 1982: Popsicle 4 - Hare Hunt ( Sapihes )
  • 1982: First Love ( Ahava Rishona )
  • 1983: Soldier of the Night ( Hayal Halayla )
  • 1984: Popsicle 5 - The great love ( Roman Za'ir )
  • 1984: The Ambassador ( The Ambassador )
  • 1985: Popsicle 6 - Vacation Love ( Harimu Ogen )
  • 1986: Atalia
  • 1987: Popsicle 7 - Boys in Love ( Ahava Tzeira )
  • 1988: Popsicle VIII - Summertime Blues
  • 1993: Lemonade (pilot)
  • 1997: Gentila
  • 2005: Lemon and the City (short film)
  • 2011: Naor's Friends ( Hachaverim Shel Naor ) (TV series)
  • 2015: Disney's North Star (TV series)

literature

Web links

Commons : Yiftach Katzur  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Hentschel: Lemon Ice Cream, Sex & Rock'n Roll: The German-Israeli film series "Eis am Stiel" (1978–1988). Verlag für Video + Filmschrift, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-1539578727 , p. 312.
  2. ↑ Martin Hentschel: Lemon Ice Cream, Sex & Rock'n Roll: The German-Israeli film series "Eis am Stiel" (1978–1988). Verlag für Video + Filmschrift, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-1539578727 , p. 314.
  3. ↑ Martin Hentschel: Lemon Ice Cream, Sex & Rock'n Roll: The German-Israeli film series "Eis am Stiel" (1978–1988). Verlag für Video + Filmschrift, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-1539578727 , pp. 348–349.
  4. ↑ Martin Hentschel: Lemon Ice Cream, Sex & Rock'n Roll: The German-Israeli film series "Eis am Stiel" (1978–1988). Verlag für Video + Filmschrift, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-1539578727 , p. 317.
  5. ↑ Yiftach Katzur, website of Katzur Strategies , accessed on May 8, 2018 (English)
  6. ↑ "Popsicles" as a show: Jesse Katzur is coming
  7. ↑ Protagonists, website of the documentary Eskimo Limon , accessed on May 8, 2018
  8. ↑ René Martens: "Eskimo Limon: Popsicle": Striptease in front of the camera. In: Zeit Online from May 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Katzur, Yiftach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katzur, Jesse; Katzur, Jiftach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Israel