Nehemiah Persoff

Known for ActingBorn 1919-08-02Died 2022-04-05Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

The Rebels

Bus Stop

The Motorola Television Hour

A Cry for Justice

A Double Life

Eric

Purple Playhouse

Escape to Mindanao

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Twilight Zone

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Hunter

Never Steal Anything Small

Columbo

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

Little House on the Prairie

Cutter's Trail

Some Like It Hot

The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones

The Untouchables

The Wonderful World of Disney

Angels in America

MacGyver

Marty

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

The Wonderful World of Disney

On the Waterfront

The Time Tunnel

Murder, She Wrote

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Breed

Highway to Heaven

Street of Sinners

Quincy, M.E.

Mission: Impossible

Ellery Queen

The Wild Wild West

Law & Order

Chicago Hope

Barney Miller

The Last Temptation of Christ

Magnum, P.I.

Gilligan's Island

Playhouse 90

The Six Million Dollar Man

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