Nehemiah Persoff

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nehemiah Persoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate, 1919-08-02

Died: 2022-04-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Marty	The Critic	80
2	1954	On the Waterfront	Cab Driver (uncredited)	79
3	1955	The Thief	D'Arnault-Olivier	48
4	1956	The Harder They Fall	Leo	71
5	1956	The Wild Party	Kicks Johnson	58
6	1956	The Wrong Man	Gene Conforti	71
7	1957	Mayerling	Police Officer	55
8	1957	Men in War	Sgt. Lewis	66
9	1957	Street of Sinners	Leon	70
10	1957	The Death of Manolete	Camera	0
11	1957	This Angry Age	Albert Legros	59
12	1958	The Badlanders	Vincente (The Powder Monkey)	62
13	1959	Never Steal Anything Small	Pinelli	80
14	1959	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Pablo	0
15	1959	Some Like It Hot	Little Bonaparte	81
16	1959	Green Mansions	Don Panta	60
17	1959	Al Capone	Johnny Torrio	66
18	1959	The Killers of Mussolini	Benito Mussolini	0
19	1959	Day of the Outlaw	Dan, Starret's Foreman	68
20	1961	The Big Show	Bruno Everard	50
21	1961	The Comancheros	Graile	66
22	1963	The Hook	Capt. Van Ryn	61
23	1964	A Global Affair	Under Secretary Segura	45
24	1964	Fate Is the Hunter	Ben Sawyer	64
25	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Shemiah	64
26	1966	Too Many Thieves	Georgi	45
27	1966	The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones	Skoda	60
28	1967	The Money Jungle	Lt. Dow Reeves	50
29	1968	The Day of the Owl	Pizzuco	71
30	1968	The Power	Prof. Carl Melnicker	62
31	1968	Panic in the City	August Best	52
32	1968	The Treasure of San Bosco Reef	Captain Malcione	0
33	1968	Escape to Mindanao	Capt. Kramer	0
34	1969	The Girl Who Knew Too Much	Lieutenant Crawford	40
35	1970	Cutter's Trail	Santillo	75
36	1970	The People Next Door	Dr. Salazar	61
37	1971	Mrs. Pollifax — Spy	Berisha	61
38	1971	Red Sky at Morning	Amadeo Montoya	67
39	1972	Michael O'Hara the Fourth	Artie Moreno	60
40	1972	Lapin 360		65
41	1972	Lieutenant Schuster's Wife	Champagne Joe Carroll	0
42	1973	Dracula	Dr. Van Helsing	50
43	1974	The Sex Symbol	Nick Fortis	30
44	1974	The Stranger Within	Dr. Edward Klein	67
45	1975	Eric	Dr. Duchesnes	0
46	1975	Psychic Killer	Doctor Gubner	52
47	1976	Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident	Rudenko	0
48	1976	Voyage of the Damned	Herr Hauser	59
49	1977	Deadly Harvest	Mort Logan	43
50	1978	The Making of a President		0
51	1978	A Double Life		0
52	1978	Killing Stone	Earl Stone	0
53	1978	Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women	Charles Frohman	50
54	1978	Daniel in the Lions' Den	Malimar	0
55	1979	The Rebels	Baron Von Steuben	0
56	1979	A Cry For Justice	Dr. Burke	80
57	1979	In Search of Historic Jesus	Herod Antipas	43
58	1980	F.D.R.: The Last Year	Josef Stalin	58
59	1980	The Henderson Monster	Prof. Leo Tedeschi	40
60	1980	Turnover Smith	Ashmed Amad	0
61	1982	O'Hara's Wife	Dr. Fischer	10
62	1982	St. Helens	Mr. Ellison	62
63	1983	Yentl	Rebbe Mendel	67
64	1986	An American Tail	Papa Mousekewitz (voice)	67
65	1988	The Last Temptation of Christ	Rabbi	72
66	1988	Twins	Mitchell Traven	60
67	1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Papa Mousekewitz (voice)	63
68	1998	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	Papa Mousekewitz (voice)	63
69	1999	An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster	Papa Mousekewitz (voice)	63
70	2001	4 Faces		0
71	2012	Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom	Self	68
72	2022	Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story	Self - Interviewee	100

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Ed Kagan	63
2	1950	Armstrong Circle Theatre		30
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Jules Dreise	73
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dr. Duchesnes	86
5	1953	The United States Steel Hour	Dr. Arnault / Oliver	62
6	1954	Climax!	Lieutenant Cal Nourse	33
7	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Artie Moreno	78
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Jack Pinto	66
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Mr. Dano	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Alex Skouras	66
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Driscoll	66
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Ben Rando	66
13	1955	Gunsmoke	Alejo Etchahoun	66
14	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Ralph Collins	77
15	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Jeff Jensen	77
16	1955	Playwrights '56		60
17	1956	Playhouse 90	Pablo	76
18	1956	Playhouse 90	Prisoners Father	76
19	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Ali Baba	62
20	1958	Naked City	Barney Peters	55
21	1958	Naked City	Carlos Ruldan	55
22	1958	Naked City	Max Evar	55
23	1958	Naked City	Dominic Venussi	55
24	1958	Naked City	Berco Romanu	55
25	1958	Naked City	Merritt Griffin	55
26	1959	Rawhide	Domingo	72
27	1959	Rawhide	Michob	72
28	1959	The Twilight Zone	Carl Lanser	84
29	1959	The Untouchables	Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik	79
30	1959	The Untouchables	Johnny Fortunato	79
31	1959	Mr. Lucky		64
32	1960	Route 66		63
33	1961	The Wonderful World of Disney		80
34	1961	Bus Stop		0
35	1961	Ben Casey		56
36	1961	The New Breed	Louis Morley	70
37	1962	Sam Benedict		60
38	1963	Burke's Law	Jason Flonder	60
39	1963	Burke's Law	Albert Indigo, 'Mr. I'	60
40	1963	Burke's Law	Wilhelm Kasimer	60
41	1963	Mr. Novak	Henry Selkirk	65
42	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
43	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Alverian	57
44	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Valandros	72
45	1964	Gilligan's Island		74
46	1965	The Legend of Jesse James	El Carnicero	48
47	1965	The Big Valley	General Vicente Ruiz	61
48	1965	Honey West	Faustini	70
49	1965	The Wild Wild West	Major Hazard	75
50	1965	The Wild Wild West	Gen. Andreas Cassinello	75
51	1966	Tarzan	Chembe Kunji	67
52	1966	The Time Tunnel	Prof. Anton Biraki	76
53	1966	Jericho		65
54	1966	Mission: Impossible	Igor Stravos	76
55	1966	Mission: Impossible	Phillipe Pereda	76
56	1966	Mission: Impossible	Prince Iben Kostas	76
57	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
58	1967	The High Chaparral	Homero José	65
59	1967	Mannix	Anton Wojeska	67
60	1968	It Takes a Thief	Harry Lavender	70
61	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Harry Cardonus	71
62	1968	The Name of the Game	Ambassador	68
63	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Winkler	71
64	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Leo Paoli	71
65	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Cordell	71
66	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Victor Palua	71
67	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Allie Francis	71
68	1968	Adam-12	Angelo Covelli	70
69	1968	Land of the Giants	Titus	67
70	1968	The Mod Squad		63
71	1968	The Mod Squad	Nick Master	63
72	1968	The Treasure of San Bosco Reef	Captain Malcione	0
73	1969	The Bill Cosby Show	Mr. Byron	54
74	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Max Behrman	65
75	1969	Love, American Style	Mr. Stone	61
76	1970	McCloud		71
77	1970	Dan August	Leo Cussoni	68
78	1971	Columbo	Jesse Jerome	81
79	1971	The Chicago Teddy Bears		55
80	1971	McMillan & Wife	Clementa Habib	69
81	1972	Search		69
82	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
83	1972	Cool Million	Karinakis	50
84	1973	Purple Playhouse	Dr. Van Helsing	0
85	1973	Police Story		69
86	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Major Popov	73
87	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
88	1975	Baretta		63
89	1975	Barney Miller	Carl Simms	73
90	1975	Barney Miller	Yacov Berger	73
91	1975	The Invisible Man	Dr. Leon Barnard	61
92	1975	Ellery Queen		74
93	1975	Wonder Woman	Professor Moreno	70
94	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
95	1976	McNaughton's Daughter	Vinnie Laine	10
96	1976	Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II	Charles Dietrich	86
97	1976	Charlie's Angels	Anton	67
98	1976	Quincy, M.E.		75
99	1977	The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries	Vladimir	71
100	1977	Hunter	Sheik Farakbi	80
101	1977	Logan's Run		65
102	1978	Battlestar Galactica	Eastern Alliance Leader	71
103	1978	Vega$		70
104	1978	The Word	Abbot Petropolous	50
105	1979	The Facts of Life		70
106	1979	The French Atlantic Affair	Col. Schreiner	70
107	1980	B.A.D. Cats		50
108	1980	Condominium	Conlaw	37
109	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Rabbi Asher Solomon	73
110	1982	Hotel		68
111	1983	Scarecrow and Mrs. King		63
112	1984	Hunter	Harold Goodman	72
113	1984	Highway to Heaven		74
114	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Constantin Stavros	75
115	1985	MacGyver	Sam Bolinski	77
116	1986	L.A. Law	Rabbi Isadore Glickman	71
117	1987	J.J. Starbuck		50
118	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Toff	84
119	1990	Law & Order	David Steinmetz	74
120	1994	Chicago Hope		72

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