Nehemiah Persoff

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story (2022)
• Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom (2012)
• 4 Faces (2001)
• An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999)
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998)
• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
• Twins (1988)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• An American Tail (1986)
• Yentl (1983)
• O'Hara's Wife (1982)
• St. Helens (1982)
• Turnover Smith (1980)
• The Henderson Monster (1980)
• F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
• In Search of Historic Jesus (1979)
• A Cry for Justice (1979)
• Daniel in the Lions' Den (1978)
• A Double Life (1978)
• Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978)
• Killing Stone (1978)
• The Making of a President (1978)
• Deadly Harvest (1977)
• Voyage of the Damned (1976)
• Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976)
• Psychic Killer (1975)
• Eric (1975)
• The Stranger Within (1974)
• The Sex Symbol (1974)
• Dracula (1973)
• Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
• Lapin 360 (1972)
• Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972)
• Red Sky at Morning (1971)
• Mrs. Pollifax — Spy (1971)
• The People Next Door (1970)
• Cutter's Trail (1970)
• The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969)
• Escape to Mindanao (1968)
• The Treasure of San Bosco Reef (1968)
• Panic in the City (1968)
• The Power (1968)
• The Day of the Owl (1968)
• The Money Jungle (1967)
• The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones (1966)
• Too Many Thieves (1966)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
• A Global Affair (1964)
• The Hook (1963)
• The Comancheros (1961)
• The Big Show (1961)
• The Killers of Mussolini (1959)
• Day of the Outlaw (1959)
• Al Capone (1959)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Green Mansions (1959)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
• Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
• The Badlanders (1958)
• This Angry Age (1957)
• The Death of Manolete (1957)
• Street of Sinners (1957)
• Men in War (1957)
• Mayerling (1957)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• The Wild Party (1956)
• The Harder They Fall (1956)
• The Thief (1955)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Marty (1953)