Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Birthday: 1919-08-02

Deathday: 2022-04-05

Place of birth: Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0675490

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Score: 10.0

Some Like It Hot

Score: 8.1

Marty

Score: 8.0

A Cry For Justice

Score: 8.0

Never Steal Anything Small

Score: 8.0

On the Waterfront

Score: 7.9

Cutter's Trail

Score: 7.5

The Last Temptation of Christ

Score: 7.2

The Wrong Man

Score: 7.1

The Harder They Fall

Score: 7.1

The Day of the Owl

Score: 7.0

Street of Sinners

Score: 7.0

The Stranger Within

Score: 6.9

Day of the Outlaw

Score: 6.8

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

Score: 6.8

An American Tail

Score: 6.7

Red Sky at Morning

Score: 6.7

Men in War

Score: 6.7

Yentl

Score: 6.7

The Comancheros

Score: 6.7

Al Capone

Score: 6.6

Lapin 360

Score: 6.5

The People Next Door

Score: 6.4

Fate Is the Hunter

Score: 6.4

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Score: 6.4

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

Score: 6.3

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Score: 6.3

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

Score: 6.3

St. Helens

Score: 6.2

The Badlanders

Score: 6.2

The Power

Score: 6.2

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

Score: 6.1

The Hook

Score: 6.1

Twins

Score: 6.0

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

Score: 6.0

The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones

Score: 6.0

Voyage of the Damned

Score: 5.9

This Angry Age

Score: 5.9

Green Mansions

Score: 5.9

F.D.R.: The Last Year

Score: 5.8

The Wild Party

Score: 5.8

Mayerling

Score: 5.5

Panic in the City

Score: 5.2

Psychic Killer

Score: 5.2

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

Score: 5.0

Dracula

Score: 5.0

The Money Jungle

Score: 5.0

The Big Show

Score: 5.0

The Thief

Score: 4.8

Too Many Thieves

Score: 4.5

A Global Affair

Score: 4.5

In Search of Historic Jesus

Score: 4.3

Deadly Harvest

Score: 4.3

The Henderson Monster

Score: 4.0

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Score: 4.0

The Sex Symbol

Score: 3.0

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Score: 0.0

The Killers of Mussolini

Score: 0.0

Turnover Smith

Score: 0.0

Eric

Score: 0.0

A Double Life

Score: 0.0

O'Hara's Wife

Score: 0.0

Daniel in the Lions' Den

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

The Rebels

Score: 0.0

4 Faces

Score: 0.0

Killing Stone

Score: 0.0

The Making of a President

Score: 0.0

The Death of Manolete

Score: 0.0

Escape to Mindanao

Score: 0.0

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

Score: 0.0

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.4

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 8.4

Columbo

Score: 8.1

Hunter

Score: 8.0

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 8.0

The Untouchables

Score: 7.9

The Untouchables

Score: 7.9

Little House on the Prairie

Score: 7.9

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

MacGyver

Score: 7.7

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Score: 7.6

The Time Tunnel

Score: 7.6

Playhouse 90

Score: 7.6

Playhouse 90

Score: 7.6

The Wild Wild West

Score: 7.5

The Wild Wild West

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Gilligan's Island

Score: 7.4

Ellery Queen

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Highway to Heaven

Score: 7.4

Magnum, P.I.

Score: 7.3

Barney Miller

Score: 7.3

Barney Miller

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Six Million Dollar Man

Score: 7.2

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

Hunter

Score: 7.2

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Score: 7.1

McMillan & Wife

Score: 7.1

McCloud

Score: 7.1

L.A. Law

Score: 7.1

Battlestar Galactica

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

It Takes a Thief

Score: 7.0

The French Atlantic Affair

Score: 7.0

The Bionic Woman

Score: 7.0

Honey West

Score: 7.0

CBS Playhouse

Score: 7.0

The New Breed

Score: 7.0

Vega$

Score: 7.0

Adam-12

Score: 7.0

Wonder Woman

Score: 7.0

The Facts of Life

Score: 7.0

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Search

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Dan August

Score: 6.8

The Name of the Game

Score: 6.8

Hotel

Score: 6.8

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Score: 6.7

Land of the Giants

Score: 6.7

Tarzan

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Logan's Run

Score: 6.5

Jericho

Score: 6.5

Mr. Novak

Score: 6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

The High Chaparral

Score: 6.5

Mr. Lucky

Score: 6.4

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Score: 6.3

Baretta

Score: 6.3

Route 66

Score: 6.3

The Philco Television Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.3

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.3

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Score: 6.2

The United States Steel Hour

Score: 6.2

The Invisible Man

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

Love, American Style

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Playwrights '56

Score: 6.0

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Score: 5.7

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

Naked City

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

The Chicago Teddy Bears

Score: 5.5

Naked City

Score: 5.5

The Bill Cosby Show

Score: 5.3

Cool Million

Score: 5.0

B.A.D. Cats

Score: 5.0

J.J. Starbuck

Score: 5.0

The Word

Score: 5.0

The Legend of Jesse James

Score: 4.8

Condominium

Score: 3.7

Climax!

Score: 3.3

Armstrong Circle Theatre

Score: 3.0

McNaughton's Daughter

Score: 1.0

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

Score: 0.0

Purple Playhouse

Score: 0.0

Bus Stop

Score: 0.0