Nehemiah Persoff
Known for Acting · 173 credits
- Born
- 1919-08-02
- Died
- 2022-04-05
- Place of birth
- Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
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.
Known For
TV Shows (102)
Law & Order
1990
as David Steinmetz
Columbo
1971
as Jesse Jerome
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Toff
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Constantin Stavros
MacGyver
1985
as Sam Bolinski
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Mr. Olaf Lundstrom
Chicago Hope
1994
as Rabbi Ben Taubler
Wagon Train
1957
as Tiburcio Mendez
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Harry Cardonus / Winkler / Leo Paoli / Cordell / Victor Palua / Allie Francis
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Alverian
Hunter
1984
as Harold Goodman
Adam-12
1968
as Angelo Covelli
Mannix
1967
as Anton Wojeska
The Wild Wild West
1965
as Major Hazard / Gen. Andreas Cassinello
L.A. Law
1986
as Rabbi Isadore Glickman
Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Rabbi Asher Solomon
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Igor Stravos / Phillipe Pereda / Prince Iben Kostas
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Carl Lanser
Climax!
1954
as Lieutenant Cal Nourse
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Anton
Love, American Style
1969
as Mr. Stone
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
as Major Popov
Fantasy Island
1978
as Horst Von Stern
Rawhide
1959
as Domingo / Michob
The Facts of Life
1979
Burke's Law
1963
as Jason Flonder / Wilhelm Kasimer / Albert Indigo, 'Mr. I'
American Playhouse
1982
as Marcus Hoff
The Untouchables
1959
as Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik / Johnny Fortunato / Waxey Gordon
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Ed Kagan
Highway to Heaven
1984
Hotel
1982
Naked City
1958
as Barney Peters / Max Evar / Carlos Ruldan / Dominic Venussi / Berco Romanu / Merritt Griffin
Barney Miller
1975
as Carl Simms / Yacov Berger
Route 66
1960
The Big Valley
1965
as General Vicente Ruiz
Gunsmoke
1955
as Jack Pinto / Mr. Dano / Alex Skouras / Driscoll / Ben Rando / Alejo Etchahoun
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Max Behrman / Nick Kolinski
Baretta
1975
The High Chaparral
1967
as Homero José
Ben Casey
1961
The Bionic Woman
1976
The Name of the Game
1968
as Ambassador
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
The United States Steel Hour
1953
as Dr. Arnault / Oliver
McCloud
1970
as Perry Cicero
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Ralph Collins / Jeff Jensen
McMillan & Wife
1971
as Clementa Habib
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989
as Max Wernick
Land of the Giants
1968
as Titus
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Valandros
The Time Tunnel
1966
as Prof. Anton Biraki
Battlestar Galactica
1978
as Eastern Alliance Leader
Vega$
1978
Gilligan's Island
1964
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
as Vladimir
Honey West
1965
as Faustini
Police Story
1973
It Takes a Thief
1968
as Harry Lavender
Movies (71)
Some Like It Hot
1959
as Little Bonaparte
Twins
1988
as Mitchell Traven
An American Tail
1986
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Rabbi
On the Waterfront
1954
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Herr Hauser
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Shemiah
The Day of the Owl
1968
as Pizzuco
The Comancheros
1961
as Graile
Green Mansions
1959
as Don Panta
The Wrong Man
1956
as Gene Conforti
The Harder They Fall
1956
as Leo
The Henderson Monster
1980
as Prof. Leo Tedeschi
The Power
1968
as Prof. Carl Melnicker
The Thief
1955
as D'Arnault-Olivier
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Al Capone
1959
as Johnny Torrio
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Dr. Fischer
A Double Life
1978
Day of the Outlaw
1959
as Dan, Starret's Foreman
The Wild Party
1956
as Kicks Johnson
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
as Ben Sawyer
The Badlanders
1958
as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Dracula
1973
as Dr. Van Helsing
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
1999
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The People Next Door
1970
as Dr. Salazar
Men in War
1957
as Sgt. Lewis
Psychic Killer
1975
as Doctor Gubner
Cutter's Trail
1970
as Santillo
Red Sky at Morning
1971
as Amadeo Montoya
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
as Josef Stalin
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
as Champagne Joe Carroll
Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
as Malimar
The Killers of Mussolini
1959
as Benito Mussolini
Panic in the City
1968
as August Best
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
1966
as Skoda
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
as Self
Eric
1975
as Dr. Duchesnes
The Big Show
1961
as Bruno Everard
A Global Affair
1964
as Under Secretary Segura
The Stranger Within
1974
as Dr. Edward Klein
The Sex Symbol
1974
as Nick Fortis
The Money Jungle
1967
as Lt. Dow Reeves
The Hook
1963
as Capt. Van Ryn
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971
as Berisha
Too Many Thieves
1966
as Georgi
Escape to Mindanao
1968
as Capt. Kramer
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972
as Artie Moreno
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
as Pablo
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969
as Lieutenant Crawford
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
as Self - Interviewee
This Angry Age
1957
as Albert Legros
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
as Herod Antipas
The Death of Manolete
1957
as Camera
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
as Pinelli
Mayerling
1957
as Police Officer
Yentl
1983
as Rebbe Mendel
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
as Rudenko
The Making of a President
1978
A Cry for Justice
1979
as Dr. Burke
Street of Sinners
1957
as Leon
Deadly Harvest
1977
as Mort Logan
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
as Charles Frohman
St. Helens
1982
as Mr. Ellison
Marty
1953
as The Critic
Turnover Smith
1980
as Ashmed Amad
Lapin 360
1972
Killing Stone
1978
as Earl Stone
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
as Captain Malcione
4 Faces
2001
About Nehemiah Persoff
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 (port… With 173 credits spanning from 1948 to 2022, Nehemiah Persoff has appeared in 71 films and 102 TV shows.
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Most Popular Nehemiah Persoff Movies
- Some Like It Hot (1959) — as Little Bonaparte
- Twins (1988) — as Mitchell Traven
- An American Tail (1986) — as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) — as Rabbi
- On the Waterfront (1954) — as Cab Driver (uncredited)
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