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