Nehemiah Persoff profile
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Nehemiah Persoff

2nd August 1919 Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate Acting

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.

71 Movies 99 TV Shows 170 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Twins poster
Twins 9th December 1988 as Mitchell Traven
Yentl poster
Yentl 18th November 1983 as Rebbe Mendel
Eric poster
Eric 10th November 1975 as Dr. Duchesnes
Dracula poster
Dracula 1st January 1973 as Dr. Van Helsing
The Power poster
The Power 21st February 1968 as Prof. Carl Melnicker
The Hook poster
The Hook 15th February 1963 as Capt. Van Ryn
Marty poster
Marty 24th May 1953 as The Critic
L.A. Law poster
L.A. Law 15th September 1986 as Rabbi Isadore Glickman
MacGyver poster
MacGyver 29th September 1985 as Sam Bolinski
Hunter poster
Hunter 18th September 1984 as Harold Goodman
The Word poster
The Word 12th November 1978 as Abbot Petropolous
Hunter poster
Hunter 18th February 1977 as Sheik Farakbi
Columbo poster
Columbo 15th September 1971 as Jesse Jerome
McCloud poster
McCloud 17th February 1970 as Perry Cicero
Adam-12 poster
Adam-12 21st September 1968 as Angelo Covelli
Mannix poster
Mannix 16th September 1967 as Anton Wojeska
Tarzan poster
Tarzan 8th September 1966 as Chembe Kunji
Gunsmoke poster
Gunsmoke 10th September 1955 as Alejo Etchahoun
Climax! poster
Climax! 7th October 1954 as Lieutenant Cal Nourse