Nehemiah Persoff

Birthday:
08/02/1919
Place of birth:
Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate:
Biography:
Nehemiah Persoff was an American film and television actor. Persoff emigrated with his family from Palestine 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.

Credits

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story (2022)
as Self - Interviewee
Tony Curtis - le gamin de Bronx (2012)
as Self
4 Faces (2001)
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999)
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998)
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Twins (1988)
as Mitchell Traven
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
as Rabbi
An American Tail (1986)
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Yentl (1983)
as Rebbe Mendel
St. Helens (1982)
as Mr. Ellison
O'Hara's Wife (1982)
as Dr. Fischer
Turnover Smith (1980)
as Ashmed Amad
The Henderson Monster (1980)
as Prof. Leo Tedeschi
F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
as Josef Stalin
In Search of Historic Jesus (1979)
as Herod Antipas
A Cry for Justice (1979)
as Dr. Burke
Daniel in the Lions' Den (1978)
as Malimar
A Double Life (1978)
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978)
as Charles Frohman
Killing Stone (1978)
as Earl Stone
The Making of a President (1978)
Deadly Harvest (1977)
as Mort Logan
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
as Herr Hauser
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976)
as Rudenko
Psychic Killer (1975)
as Doctor Gubner
Eric (1975)
as Dr. Duchesnes
The Stranger Within (1974)
as Dr. Edward Klein
The Sex Symbol (1974)
as Nick Fortis
Dracula (1973)
as Dr. Van Helsing
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
as Champagne Joe Carroll
Lapin 360 (1972)
Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972)
as Artie Moreno
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
as Amadeo Montoya
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy (1971)
as Berisha
The People Next Door (1970)
as Dr. Salazar
Cutter's Trail (1970)
as Santillo
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969)
as Lieutenant Crawford
Escape to Mindanao (1968)
as Capt. Kramer
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef (1968)
as Captain Malcione
Panic in the City (1968)
as August Best
The Power (1968)
as Prof. Carl Melnicker
Il giorno della civetta (1968)
as Pizzuco
The Money Jungle (1967)
as Lt. Dow Reeves
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones (1966)
as Skoda
Too Many Thieves (1966)
as Georgi
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as Shemiah
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
as Ben Sawyer
A Global Affair (1964)
as Under Secretary Segura
The Hook (1963)
as Capt. Van Ryn
The Comancheros (1961)
as Graile
The Big Show (1961)
as Bruno Everard
The Killers of Mussolini (1959)
as Benito Mussolini
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
as Dan, Starret's Foreman
Al Capone (1959)
as Johnny Torrio
Green Mansions (1959)
as Don Panta
Some Like It Hot (1959)
as Little Bonaparte
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
as Pablo
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
as Pinelli
The Badlanders (1958)
as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
This Angry Age (1957)
as Albert Legros
The Death of Manolete (1957)
as Camera
Street of Sinners (1957)
as Leon
Men in War (1957)
as Sgt. Lewis
Mayerling (1957)
as Police Officer
The Wrong Man (1956)
as Gene Conforti
The Wild Party (1956)
as Kicks Johnson
The Harder They Fall (1956)
as Leo
The Thief (1955)
as D'Arnault-Olivier
On the Waterfront (1954)
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Marty (1953)
as The Critic

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