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