Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

02/08/1919

Day of Death

05/04/2022
(103) years old

Place of Birth

Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Biography

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 afte... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2022

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

as Self - Interviewee

1999

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Nig...

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1998

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhat...

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1991

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1988

Twins

as Mitchell Traven

1986

An American Tail

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1983

Yentl

as Rebbe Mendel

1982

O'Hara's Wife

as Dr. Fischer

1982

St. Helens

as Mr. Ellison

1980

Turnover Smith

as Ashmed Amad

1980

The Henderson Monster

as Prof. Leo Tedeschi

1980

F.D.R.: The Last Year

as Josef Stalin

1979

In Search of Historic Jesus

as Herod Antipas

1979

A Cry For Justice

as Dr. Burke

1979

The Rebels

as Baron Von Steuben

1978

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

as Charles Frohman

1978

Killing Stone

as Earl Stone

1977

Deadly Harvest

as Mort Logan

1976

Voyage of the Damned

as Herr Hauser

1975

Psychic Killer

as Doctor Gubner

1975

Eric

as Dr. Duchesnes

1974

The Stranger Within

as Dr. Edward Klein

1974

The Sex Symbol

as Nick Fortis

1973

Dracula

as Dr. Van Helsing

1972

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

as Champagne Joe Carroll

1972

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

as Artie Moreno

1971

Red Sky at Morning

as Amadeo Montoya

1971

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

as Berisha

1970

The People Next Door

as Dr. Salazar

1970

Cutter's Trail

as Santillo

1969

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

as Lieutenant Crawford

1968

Escape to Mindanao

as Capt. Kramer

1968

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

as Captain Malcione

1968

Panic in the City

as August Best

1968

The Power

as Prof. Carl Melnicker

1968

The Day of the Owl

as Pizzuco

1967

The Money Jungle

as Lt. Dow Reeves

1966

Too Many Thieves

as Georgi

1964

Fate Is the Hunter

as Ben Sawyer

1964

A Global Affair

as Under Secretary Segura

1963

The Hook

as Capt. Van Ryn

1961

The Comancheros

as Graile

1961

The Big Show

as Bruno Everard

1959

Day of the Outlaw

as Dan, Starret's Foreman

1959

The Killers of Mussolini

as Benito Mussolini

1959

Al Capone

as Johnny Torrio

1959

Some Like It Hot

as Little Bonaparte

1959

Green Mansions

as Don Panta

1958

The Badlanders

as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)

1957

This Angry Age

as Albert Legros

1957

Men in War

as Sgt. Lewis

1957

Mayerling

as Police Officer

1956

The Wrong Man

as Gene Conforti

1956

The Wild Party

as Kicks Johnson

1955

The Thief

as D'Arnault-Olivier

1954

On the Waterfront

as Cab Driver (uncredited)

1953

Marty

as The Critic