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