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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Magnum, P.I.
7.275
Columbo
8.088
Burke's Law
6
Star Trek: The Next Generation
8.368
L.A. Law
7.1
Little House on the Prairie
7.937
The Facts of Life
7
Mr. Lucky
6.4
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Gilligan's Island
7.4
Quincy, M.E.
7.5
Route 66
6.3
Highway to Heaven
7.385
The Streets of San Francisco
6.935
Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
Baretta
6.3
Land of the Giants
6.7
Naked City
5.5
Charlie's Angels
6.7
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
6.3
Hotel
6.8
MacGyver
7.7
The Mod Squad
6.3
The Bill Cosby Show
5.417
Gunsmoke
6.6
Wonder Woman
7
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Adam-12
7
Hunter
7.2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
The Twilight Zone
8.447
Chicago Hope
7.243
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Sam Benedict
6
Bus Stop
0
Rawhide
7.2
Vega$
7
Police Story
6.9
The High Chaparral
6.5
The Chicago Teddy Bears
5.5
Search
6.9
McCloud
7.1
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Climax!
3.273
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
The Big Valley
6.1
Armstrong Circle Theatre
3
The Word
5
Tarzan
6.7
The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Ben Casey
5.6
Ellery Queen
7.4
Mr. Novak
6.5
The New Breed
7
CBS Playhouse
7
Honey West
7
Playwrights '56
6
The Wonderful World of Disney
8
The Legend of Jesse James
4.8
Jericho
6.5
J.J. Starbuck
5
Logan's Run
6.5
The Bionic Woman
7
The United States Steel Hour
6.2
Naked City
5.5
Naked City
5.5
Naked City
5.5
Naked City
5.5
Naked City
5.5
B.A.D. Cats
5
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
The Untouchables
7.9
Rawhide
7.2
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Purple Playhouse
0
The Untouchables
7.9
Gunsmoke
6.6
The Name of the Game
6.8
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Battlestar Galactica
7.08
Condominium
3.7
Burke's Law
6
Burke's Law
6
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
8.6
The French Atlantic Affair
7
The Six Million Dollar Man
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Law & Order
7.4
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
The Wild Wild West
7.5
Playhouse 90
7.6
Mission: Impossible
7.6
Hunter
8
McMillan & Wife
6.875
The Mod Squad
6.3
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
0
Mannix
6.7
Barney Miller
7.3
McNaughton's Daughter
1
Barney Miller
7.3
The Time Tunnel
7.6
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
It Takes a Thief
7
The Invisible Man
6.1
Dan August
6.8
Cool Million
5
Love, American Style
6.056
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
7.1
Shirley Temple's Storybook
6.2
The Wild Wild West
7.5
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
7.2
Playhouse 90
7.6
Movies
Some Like It Hot
8.094
For Whom the Bell Tolls
0
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
0
Yentl
6.7
The Greatest Story Ever Told
6.4
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
6.318
An American Tail
6.725
The Comancheros
6.649
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
6.291
The Wrong Man
7.142
Twins
6.036
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
6.332
The Harder They Fall
7.124
Al Capone
6.578
Day of the Outlaw
6.8
Men in War
6.623
The Last Temptation of Christ
7.222
The Power
6.2
Escape to Mindanao
0
Green Mansions
5.9
Psychic Killer
5.2
Deadly Harvest
4.3
Fate Is the Hunter
6.4
The People Next Door
6.088
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
4
A Global Affair
4.5
Street of Sinners
7
The Wild Party
5.8
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
6
The Sex Symbol
3
The Henderson Monster
4
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
6.1
The Big Show
5
The Hook
6.1
Never Steal Anything Small
8
On the Waterfront
7.899
Panic in the City
5.2
The Death of Manolete
0
This Angry Age
5.9
In Search of Historic Jesus
4.3
The Making of a President
0
The Badlanders
6.2
Killing Stone
0
4 Faces
0
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
10
Too Many Thieves
4.5
The Money Jungle
5
F.D.R.: The Last Year
5.833
The Rebels
0
Red Sky at Morning
6.7
Lapin 360
6.5
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
0
Voyage of the Damned
5.9
The Stranger Within
6.7
A Cry For Justice
8
Daniel in the Lions' Den
0
Dracula
5
The Day of the Owl
7.1
O'Hara's Wife
1
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
5
A Double Life
0
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
6.8
Mayerling
5.5
Eric
0
Cutter's Trail
7.5
Turnover Smith
0
The Killers of Mussolini
0
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
6
St. Helens
6.2
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
0
The Thief
4.8
Marty
8