Cast
Nehemiah Persoff
Acting
Cast
Nehemiah Persoff
Known for
Acting
Born
1919-08-02
From
Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
Died
2022-04-05
Biography
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.
★8.1
MOVIE1959
Some Like It Hot
as Little Bonaparte
★6.1
MOVIE1988
Twins
as Mitchell Traven
★6.8
MOVIE1986
An American Tail
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE1988
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Rabbi
★7.9
MOVIE1954
On the Waterfront
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1991
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1976
Voyage of the Damned
as Herr Hauser
★6.4
MOVIE1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Shemiah
★7.1
MOVIE1968
The Day of the Owl
as Pizzuco
★6.7
MOVIE1961
The Comancheros
as Graile
★5.7
MOVIE1959
Green Mansions
as Don Panta
★7.1
MOVIE1956
The Wrong Man
as Gene Conforti
★7.2
MOVIE1956
The Harder They Fall
as Leo
★6.0
MOVIE1980
The Henderson Monster
as Prof. Leo Tedeschi
★6.3
MOVIE1968
The Power
as Prof. Carl Melnicker
★4.0
MOVIE1955
The Thief
as D'Arnault-Olivier
★6.3
MOVIE1998
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1959
Al Capone
as Johnny Torrio
★5.7
MOVIE1982
O'Hara's Wife
as Dr. Fischer
★9.0
MOVIE1978
A Double Life
★6.8
MOVIE1959
Day of the Outlaw
as Dan, Starret's Foreman
★6.6
MOVIE1956
The Wild Party
as Kicks Johnson
★6.5
MOVIE1964
Fate Is the Hunter
as Ben Sawyer
★6.2
MOVIE1958
The Badlanders
as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
★7.0
MOVIE1973
Dracula
as Dr. Van Helsing
★6.3
MOVIE1999
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE1970
The People Next Door
as Dr. Salazar
★6.6
MOVIE1957
Men in War
as Sgt. Lewis
★5.3
MOVIE1975
Psychic Killer
as Doctor Gubner
★8.0
MOVIE1970
Cutter's Trail
as Santillo
★7.1
MOVIE1971
Red Sky at Morning
as Amadeo Montoya
★6.9
MOVIE1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Josef Stalin
★7.0
MOVIE1972
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
as Champagne Joe Carroll
MOVIE1978
Daniel in the Lions' Den
as Malimar
MOVIE1959
The Killers of Mussolini
as Benito Mussolini
★5.6
MOVIE1968
Panic in the City
as August Best
★8.0
MOVIE1966
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
as Skoda
★7.4
MOVIE2012
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1975
Eric
as Dr. Duchesnes
★5.8
MOVIE1961
The Big Show
as Bruno Everard
★5.3
MOVIE1964
A Global Affair
as Under Secretary Segura
★6.6
MOVIE1974
The Stranger Within
as Dr. Edward Klein
★4.0
MOVIE1974
The Sex Symbol
as Nick Fortis
★5.6
MOVIE1967
The Money Jungle
as Lt. Dow Reeves
★6.2
MOVIE1963
The Hook
as Capt. Van Ryn
★6.3
MOVIE1971
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
as Berisha
★5.7
MOVIE1966
Too Many Thieves
as Georgi
★9.0
MOVIE1968
Escape to Mindanao
as Capt. Kramer
★8.0
MOVIE1972
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
as Artie Moreno
MOVIE1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Pablo
★6.0
MOVIE1969
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
as Lieutenant Crawford
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self - Interviewee
★6.1
MOVIE1957
This Angry Age
as Albert Legros
★5.5
MOVIE1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Herod Antipas
★6.0
MOVIE1957
The Death of Manolete
as Camera
★8.2
MOVIE1959
Never Steal Anything Small
as Pinelli
★6.1
MOVIE1957
Mayerling
as Police Officer
★6.7
MOVIE1983
Yentl
as Rebbe Mendel
★7.0
MOVIE1976
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
as Rudenko
MOVIE1978
The Making of a President
★9.0
MOVIE1979
A Cry for Justice
as Dr. Burke
★7.7
MOVIE1957
Street of Sinners
as Leon
★4.7
MOVIE1977
Deadly Harvest
as Mort Logan
★7.0
MOVIE1978
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
as Charles Frohman
★6.0
MOVIE1982
St. Helens
as Mr. Ellison
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Marty
as The Critic
★7.0
MOVIE1980
Turnover Smith
as Ashmed Amad
★6.5
MOVIE1972
Lapin 360
★7.0
MOVIE1978
Killing Stone
as Earl Stone
MOVIE1968
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
as Captain Malcione
★7.0
MOVIE2001