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 (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.
On the Waterfront
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Some Like It Hot
as Little Bonaparte
Twins
as Mitchell Traven
An American Tail
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Rabbi
The Comancheros
as Graile
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Shemiah
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Harder They Fall
as Leo
Voyage of the Damned
as Herr Hauser
The Badlanders
as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Green Mansions
as Don Panta
The Wrong Man
as Gene Conforti
Yentl
as Rebbe Mendel
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Day of the Outlaw
as Dan, Starret's Foreman
Al Capone
as Johnny Torrio
Men in War
as Sgt. Lewis
The Power
as Prof. Carl Melnicker
Never Steal Anything Small
as Pinelli
Fate Is the Hunter
as Ben Sawyer
The Hook
as Capt. Van Ryn
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
as Rudenko
Mayerling
as Police Officer
The Day of the Owl
as Pizzuco
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self - Interviewee
St. Helens
as Mr. Ellison
A Double Life
O'Hara's Wife
as Dr. Fischer
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Josef Stalin
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
as Self
Cutter's Trail
as Santillo
Street of Sinners
as Leon
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
as Berisha
Psychic Killer
as Doctor Gubner
Red Sky at Morning
as Amadeo Montoya
The Sex Symbol
as Nick Fortis
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
as Skoda
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
as Lieutenant Crawford
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
as Charles Frohman
Turnover Smith
as Ashmed Amad
The People Next Door
as Dr. Salazar
The Money Jungle
as Lt. Dow Reeves
Daniel in the Lions' Den
as Malimar
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
as Artie Moreno
The Stranger Within
as Dr. Edward Klein
4 Faces
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
as Champagne Joe Carroll
Marty
as The Critic
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Pablo
Killing Stone
as Earl Stone
A Global Affair
as Under Secretary Segura
The Thief
as D'Arnault-Olivier
Deadly Harvest
as Mort Logan
The Henderson Monster
as Prof. Leo Tedeschi
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
as Captain Malcione
Eric
as Dr. Duchesnes
The Killers of Mussolini
as Benito Mussolini
Escape to Mindanao
as Capt. Kramer
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Herod Antipas
This Angry Age
as Albert Legros
A Cry For Justice
as Dr. Burke
Too Many Thieves
as Georgi
The Big Show
as Bruno Everard
Dracula
as Dr. Van Helsing
The Making of a President
The Wild Party
as Kicks Johnson
Panic in the City
as August Best
Lapin 360
The Death of Manolete
as Camera