Nehemiah Persoff

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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	6.324
Birthday	1919-08-02
Place of Birth	Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
Also Known As

Some Like It Hot

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

Yentl

The Greatest Story Ever Told

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail

The Comancheros

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

The Wrong Man

Twins

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

The Harder They Fall

Al Capone

Day of the Outlaw

Men in War

The Last Temptation of Christ

The Power

Escape to Mindanao

Green Mansions

Psychic Killer

Deadly Harvest

Fate Is the Hunter

The People Next Door

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

A Global Affair

Street of Sinners

The Wild Party

The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones

The Sex Symbol

The Henderson Monster

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

The Big Show

The Hook

Never Steal Anything Small

On the Waterfront

Panic in the City

The Death of Manolete

This Angry Age

In Search of Historic Jesus

The Making of a President

The Badlanders

Killing Stone

4 Faces

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Too Many Thieves

The Money Jungle

F.D.R.: The Last Year

The Rebels

Red Sky at Morning

Lapin 360

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

The Rag Jungle

Voyage of the Damned

The Stranger Within

A Cry For Justice

Daniel in the Lions' Den

Dracula

The Day of the Owl

O'Hara's Wife

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

A Double Life

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

Mayerling

Eric

Cutter's Trail

Turnover Smith

The Killers of Mussolini

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

St. Helens

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

The Thief

Marty