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