Nehemiah Persoff
Nehemiah Persoff (born August 2, 1919) was a former American film and television character 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.
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Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
Birthday
8/2/1919
Some Like It Hot
8.1
For Whom the Bell Tolls
0
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
0
Yentl
6.6
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.4
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
6.3
An American Tail
6.7
The Comancheros
6.7
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
6.3
The Wrong Man
7.1
Twins
6
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
6.4
The Harder They Fall
7.1
Al Capone
6.6
Day of the Outlaw
6.8
Men in War
6.8
The Last Temptation of Christ
7.2
The Power
6.4
Escape to Mindanao
0
Green Mansions
5.6
Psychic Killer
5.2
Deadly Harvest
4.3
Fate Is the Hunter
6.4
The People Next Door
6.3
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
4
A Global Affair
4.5
Street of Sinners
7
The Wild Party
5.8
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
6
The Sex Symbol
3
The Henderson Monster
0
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
6.1
The Big Show
5
The Hook
5.8
Never Steal Anything Small
8
On the Waterfront
7.9
Panic in the City
5.2
The Death of Manolete
0
This Angry Age
5.9
In Search of Historic Jesus
4.3
The Making of a President
0
The Badlanders
6.2
Killing Stone
0
4 Faces
0
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
10
Too Many Thieves
4.5
The Money Jungle
5
F.D.R.: The Last Year
7.5
The Rebels
0
Red Sky at Morning
6.7
Lapin 360
6.5
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
0
The Rag Jungle
0
Voyage of the Damned
5.9
The Stranger Within
6.9
A Cry For Justice
8
Daniel in the Lions' Den
0
Dracula
5
The Day of the Owl
7
O'Hara's Wife
0
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
5
A Double Life
0
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
6.8
Mayerling
5.5
Eric
0
Cutter's Trail
7.5
Turnover Smith
0
The Killers of Mussolini
0
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
6
St. Helens
6.2
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
0
The Thief
4.8
Marty
8