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