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 Actors 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 Streisands characters 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 Pharaohs Curse episode), Mission Impossible (3 episodes), Adam-12 (Vendetta episode), Charlies 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.

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Yentl

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Poster movie The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever T

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Poster movie An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel

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An American Tail

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Twins

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An American Tail: The Mys

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The Last Temptation of Ch

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The Power

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Green Mansions

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Fate Is the Hunter

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The People Next Door

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A Global Affair

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The Dangerous Days Of Kio

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The Big Show

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The Death of Manolete

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F.D.R.: The Last Year

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Hawaii Five-O

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Land of the Giants

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Gunsmoke

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Rawhide

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The Word

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The Untouchables

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Rawhide

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The Untouchables

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Gunsmoke

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Gunsmoke

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Gunsmoke

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Gunsmoke

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Gunsmoke

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Condominium

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The French Atlantic Affai

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Hawaii Five-O

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Hawaii Five-O

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Hawaii Five-O

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Hawaii Five-O

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Hawaii Five-O

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Playhouse 90

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McNaughton's Daughter

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Love, American Style

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Movies unavailable from Nehemiah Persoff

Some Like It Hot

Little Bonaparte

Movie 1959

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Pablo

Movie 1959

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

Captain Malcione

Movie 1968

The Comancheros

Graile

Movie 1961

The Wrong Man

Gene Conforti

Movie 1956

The Harder They Fall

Leo

Movie 1956

Al Capone

Johnny Torrio

Movie 1959

Day of the Outlaw

Dan, Starret's Foreman

Movie 1959

Men in War

Sgt. Lewis

Movie 1957

Escape to Mindanao

Capt. Kramer

Movie 1968

Psychic Killer

Doctor Gubner

Movie 1975

Deadly Harvest

Mort Logan

Movie 1977

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Lieutenant Crawford

Movie 1969

Street of Sinners

Leon

Movie 1957

The Wild Party

Kicks Johnson

Movie 1956

The Sex Symbol

Nick Fortis

Movie 1974

The Henderson Monster

Prof. Leo Tedeschi

Movie 1980

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

Berisha

Movie 1971

The Hook

Capt. Van Ryn

Movie 1963

Never Steal Anything Small

Pinelli

Movie 1959

On the Waterfront

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Movie 1954

Panic in the City

August Best

Movie 1968

This Angry Age

Albert Legros

Movie 1957

In Search of Historic Jesus

Herod Antipas

Movie 1979

The Making of a President

Movie 1978

The Badlanders

Vincente (The Powder Monkey)

Movie 1958

Killing Stone

Earl Stone

Movie 1978

4 Faces

Movie 2001

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

Self - Interviewee

Movie 2022

Too Many Thieves

Georgi

Movie 1966

The Money Jungle

Lt. Dow Reeves

Movie 1967

The Rebels

Baron Von Steuben

Movie 1979

Red Sky at Morning

Amadeo Montoya

Movie 1971

Lapin 360

Movie 1972

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

Rudenko

Movie 1976

The Rag Jungle

Leonard Brill

Movie 1956

Voyage of the Damned

Herr Hauser

Movie 1976

The Stranger Within

Dr. Edward Klein

Movie 1974

A Cry For Justice

Dr. Burke

Movie 1979

Daniel in the Lions' Den

Malimar

Movie 1978

Dracula

Dr. Van Helsing

Movie 1973

The Day of the Owl

Pizzuco

Movie 1968

O'Hara's Wife

Dr. Fischer

Movie 1982

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

Charles Frohman

Movie 1978

A Double Life

Movie 1978

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

Self

Movie 2012

Mayerling

Police Officer

Movie 1957

Eric

Dr. Duchesnes

Movie 1975

Cutter's Trail

Santillo

Movie 1970

Turnover Smith

Ashmed Amad

Movie 1980

The Killers of Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Movie 1959

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

Artie Moreno

Movie 1972

St. Helens

Mr. Ellison

Movie 1982

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Champagne Joe Carroll

Movie 1972

The Thief

D'Arnault-Olivier

Movie 1955

Marty

The Critic

Movie 1953

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Magnum, P.I.

Tv 1980

Columbo

Jesse Jerome

Tv 1971

Burke's Law

Jason Flonder

Tv 1963

L.A. Law

Rabbi Isadore Glickman

Tv 1986

Little House on the Prairie

Tv 1974

The Facts of Life

Tv 1979

Mr. Lucky

Tv 1959

Gilligan's Island

Tv 1964

Quincy, M.E.

Tv 1976

Route 66

Tv 1960

Highway to Heaven

Tv 1984

The Streets of San Francisco

Tv 1972

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Max Behrman

Tv 1969

Baretta

Tv 1975

Naked City

Barney Peters

Tv 1958

Charlie's Angels

Anton

Tv 1976

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Tv 1983

Hotel

Tv 1982

MacGyver

Sam Bolinski

Tv 1985

The Mod Squad

Tv 1968

The Bill Cosby Show

Mr. Byron

Tv 1969

Wonder Woman

Professor Moreno

Tv 1975

Mission: Impossible

Igor Stravos

Tv 1966

Adam-12

Angelo Covelli

Tv 1968

Hunter

Harold Goodman

Tv 1984

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dr. Duchesnes

Tv 1951

The Twilight Zone

Carl Lanser

Tv 1959

Chicago Hope

Tv 1994

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Ralph Collins

Tv 1955

Sam Benedict

Tv 1962

Bus Stop

Tv 1961

The Wild Wild West

Tv 1965

Vega$

Tv 1978

Police Story

Tv 1973

The High Chaparral

Homero José

Tv 1967

The Chicago Teddy Bears

Tv 1971

Search

Tv 1972

McCloud

Tv 1970

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Jules Dreise

Tv 1951

Climax!

Lieutenant Cal Nourse

Tv 1954

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Tv 1963

The Big Valley

General Vicente Ruiz

Tv 1965

Armstrong Circle Theatre

Tv 1950

Tarzan

Chembe Kunji

Tv 1966

The Philco Television Playhouse

Ed Kagan

Tv 1948

Ben Casey

Tv 1961

Ellery Queen

Tv 1975

Mr. Novak

Henry Selkirk

Tv 1963

The New Breed

Louis Morley

Tv 1961

CBS Playhouse

Tv 1966

Playwrights '56

Tv 1955

Honey West

Faustini

Tv 1965

The Wonderful World of Disney

Tv 1961

The Legend of Jesse James

El Carnicero

Tv 1965

Jericho

Tv 1966

J.J. Starbuck

Tv 1987

Logan's Run

Tv 1977

The Bionic Woman

Tv 1976

The United States Steel Hour

Dr. Arnault / Oliver

Tv 1953

Naked City

Max Evar

Tv 1958

Naked City

Carlos Ruldan

Tv 1958

Naked City

Dominic Venussi

Tv 1958

Naked City

Berco Romanu

Tv 1958

Naked City

Merritt Griffin

Tv 1958

B.A.D. Cats

Tv 1980

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Alverian

Tv 1963

The Wonderful World of Disney

Artie Moreno

Tv 1954

Mission: Impossible

Phillipe Pereda

Tv 1966

Purple Playhouse

Dr. Van Helsing

Tv 1973

The Name of the Game

Ambassador

Tv 1968

Battlestar Galactica

Eastern Alliance Leader

Tv 1978

Burke's Law

Wilhelm Kasimer

Tv 1963

Burke's Law

Albert Indigo, 'Mr. I'

Tv 1963

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Charles Dietrich

Tv 1976

The Six Million Dollar Man

Major Popov

Tv 1974

Law & Order

David Steinmetz

Tv 1990

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jeff Jensen

Tv 1955

The Wild Wild West

Major Hazard

Tv 1965

Mission: Impossible

Prince Iben Kostas

Tv 1966

Hunter

Sheik Farakbi

Tv 1977

McMillan & Wife

Clementa Habib

Tv 1971

The Mod Squad

Nick Master

Tv 1968

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

Captain Malcione

Tv 1968

Mannix

Anton Wojeska

Tv 1967

Barney Miller

Carl Simms

Tv 1975

Barney Miller

Yacov Berger

Tv 1975

The Time Tunnel

Prof. Anton Biraki

Tv 1966

Murder, She Wrote

Constantin Stavros

Tv 1984

It Takes a Thief

Harry Lavender

Tv 1968

The Invisible Man

Dr. Leon Barnard

Tv 1975

Dan August

Leo Cussoni

Tv 1970

Cool Million

Karinakis

Tv 1972

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Vladimir

Tv 1977

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Ali Baba

Tv 1958