Oliver Brandt is the main antagonist of the Columbo episode "The Bye-bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case". He was played by Theodore Bikel, who also portrayed Oliver Crangle in The Twilight Zone.

In "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case" Oliver Brandt (played by Theodore Bikel) and Bertie Hastings are partners in an accounting firm catering to corporate and individual clients.

Oliver Brandt : Bertie had a tin ear. He understood nothing and liked everything... Tchaikovsky included.

Bertie Hastings and Oliver Brandt are business partners; they are also both members of a selective group made up of a handful of people whose IQ's fall within the top 2% of the world. However Oliver has been stealing money from clients and Bertie has found out, meaning Oliver must kill him to keep it quiet.

Bertie Hastings (Sorrell Booke) discovers that his friend, Oliver Brandt (Theodore Bikel), a senior partner in an accounting firm, has been embezzling money to support the expensive lifestyle of his beautiful wife, Vivian (Samantha Eggar).

Oliver Brandt and Bertie Hastings, two members of The Sigma Society, are partners in an accounting firm catering mostly to corporate clients. The firm handles some individual accounts also, and Bertie discovers that Brandt has been pilfering these accounts in order to maintain his beautiful, high-rent wife.

Oct 27, 2019 · Genius accountant Oliver Brandt has been embezzling funds in order to keep his high-maintenance wife in fine frocks and tropical getaways. She has no idea he’s up to such skullduggery, but his business partner and life-long friend Bertie Hastings has just found out – …

On May 22nd, 1977, Oliver Brandt killed his business partner, Bertie Hastings. He was smart, but Columbo was smarter. Bye Bye…

Jan 4, 2021 · When business partner Bertie Hastings threatens to expose him for stealing from clients, accountant Oliver Brandt (Theodore Bikel) simply bumps him off. With both Brandt and Hastings members of the Sigma Society – a high IQ club similar to Mensa – Columbo has his work cut out to catch the killer.

Oliver Brandt (Bikel) and Bertie Hastings (Sorrell Booke, still a couple of years away from becoming the Trope Codifier for Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit on The Dukes of Hazzard) are both members of the club and also partners in the accounting firm of …