Nehemiah Persoff

Acting

Born Aug 02, 1919

From Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Died Apr 05, 2022

Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American film and television 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.

Nehemiah Persoff

Known For

Some Like It Hot

The Last Temptation of Christ

On the Waterfront

Twins

The Greatest Story Ever Told

An American Tail

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

The Comancheros

The Harder They Fall

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

Filmography — Acting

Some Like It Hot

The Last Temptation of Christ

On the Waterfront

Twins

The Greatest Story Ever Told

An American Tail

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

The Comancheros

The Harder They Fall

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

Yentl

The Wrong Man

Voyage of the Damned

Men in War

Green Mansions

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

Al Capone

The Day of the Owl

The Power

The Badlanders

Fate Is the Hunter

The People Next Door

Psychic Killer

Day of the Outlaw

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

The Hook

Mayerling

Red Sky at Morning

St. Helens

F.D.R.: The Last Year

Marty

The Money Jungle

Turnover Smith

Eric

The Big Show

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Deadly Harvest

The Thief

The Wild Party

A Double Life

Panic in the City

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

The Stranger Within

Never Steal Anything Small

Cutter's Trail

O'Hara's Wife

A Global Affair

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

The Killers of Mussolini

Street of Sinners

The Henderson Monster

This Angry Age

The Sex Symbol

The Death of Manolete

In Search of Historic Jesus

Dracula

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

Too Many Thieves

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

A Cry For Justice

Killing Stone

Escape to Mindanao

The Making of a President