10.0
10.0
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
as Self - Interviewee
Nehemiah Persoff
Acting
Born:August 2, 1919
Died:April 5, 2022(aged 102)
Birthplace:Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
Nationality:United States
Education:Hebrew Technical Institute
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CommunityBiography
Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American film and television actor. He was born in Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate. Born in what is now part of Israel, Persoff emigrated with his family to the United States in 1929. He began to take an interest in acting in the 1940s, and after serving in the Army during World War II, he began to pursue his acting career in the New York Theater. In 1947, he was accepted into the Actor's Studio and eventually began appearing in films. His film credits include: On the Waterfront, Some Like It Hot, Al Capone, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Voyage of the Damned, The Comancheros, Yentl (portraying Barbra Streisand's character's father), Twins and the American Tail (animated-film series) (voiced, "Papa Mousekewitz"). Persoff appeared in such television series as, Five Fingers ("The Moment of Truth"), The Big Valley ("Legend of a General", Parts I & II, episode), The Twilight Zone ("Judgment Night" episode), Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Heart of Gold" episode), The Untouchables, Naked City, The Legend of Jesse James, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, Ellery Queen ("The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse" episode), Mission: Impossible (3 episodes), Adam-12 ("Vendetta" episode), Charlie's Angels, Hunter, Columbo, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Magnum, P.I., Law & Order and Chicago Hope. In the mid-1980s, Persoff began to pursue painting, specializing in watercolour. This was at a time when health problems forced him to decrease his acting workload. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nehemiah Persoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (70 movies)
8.1
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959
as Little Bonaparte
8.0
8.0
Marty
1953
as The Critic
8.0
8.0
A Cry For Justice
1979
as Dr. Burke
8.0
8.0
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
as Pinelli
7.5
7.5
Cutter's Trail
1970
as Santillo
7.1
7.1
The Wrong Man
1956
as Gene Conforti
7.1
7.1
The Harder They Fall
1956
as Leo
7.1
7.1
The Day of the Owl
1968
as Pizzuco
7.0
7.0
Street of Sinners
1957
as Leon
7.0
7.0
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
as Self
6.8
6.8
Day of the Outlaw
1959
as Dan, Starret's Foreman
6.7
6.7
An American Tail
1986
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
6.7
6.7
The Stranger Within
1974
as Dr. Edward Klein
6.7
6.7
The Comancheros
1961
as Graile
6.7
6.7
Yentl
1983
as Rebbe Mendel
6.7
6.7
Red Sky at Morning
1971
as Amadeo Montoya
6.6
6.6
Al Capone
1959
as Johnny Torrio
6.6
6.6
Men in War
1957
as Sgt. Lewis
6.5
6.5
Lapin 360
1972
6.5
6.5
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
as Ben Sawyer
6.4
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Shemiah
6.3
6.3
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
1999
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
6.3
6.3
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
6.3
6.3
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
6.2
6.2
The Power
1968
as Prof. Carl Melnicker
6.1
6.1
The Badlanders
1958
as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
6.1
6.1
The Hook
1963
as Capt. Van Ryn
6.1
6.1
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971
as Berisha
6.0
6.0
Twins
1988
as Mitchell Traven
6.0
6.0
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
1966
as Skoda
6.0
6.0
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972
as Artie Moreno
6.0
6.0
Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Herr Hauser
5.9
5.9
This Angry Age
1957
as Albert Legros
5.9
5.9
Green Mansions
1959
as Don Panta
5.8
5.8
The People Next Door
1970
as Dr. Salazar
5.8
5.8
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as Josef Stalin
5.8
5.8
The Wild Party
1956
as Kicks Johnson
5.8
5.8
St. Helens
1982
as Mr. Ellison
5.5
5.5
Mayerling
1957
as Police Officer
5.2
5.2
Panic in the City
1968
as August Best
5.2
5.2
Psychic Killer
1975
as Doctor Gubner
5.0
5.0
The Money Jungle
1967
as Lt. Dow Reeves
5.0
5.0
Dracula
1973
as Dr. Van Helsing
5.0
5.0
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
as Charles Frohman
5.0
5.0
The Big Show
1961
as Bruno Everard
4.5
4.5
A Global Affair
1964
as Under Secretary Segura
4.5
4.5
Too Many Thieves
1966
as Georgi
4.3
4.3
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
as Herod Antipas
4.3
4.3
Deadly Harvest
1977
as Mort Logan
4.0
4.0
The Thief
1955
as D'Arnault-Olivier
4.0
4.0
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969
as Lieutenant Crawford
4.0
4.0
The Henderson Monster
1980
as Prof. Leo Tedeschi
3.5
3.5
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Dr. Fischer
2.3
2.3
The Sex Symbol
1974
as Nick Fortis
Eric
1975
as Dr. Duchesnes
Turnover Smith
1980
as Ashmed Amad
A Double Life
1978
The Killers of Mussolini
1959
as Benito Mussolini
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
as Rudenko
Escape to Mindanao
1968
as Capt. Kramer
Killing Stone
1978
as Earl Stone
4 Faces
2001
Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
as Malimar
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
as Captain Malcione
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Pablo
The Death of Manolete
1957
as Camera
The Making of a President
1978
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
as Champagne Joe Carroll
The Rebels
1979
as Baron Von Steuben
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