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Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Actor · Born 1919-08-02 · Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

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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:…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Some Like It Hot (1959) — Little Bonaparte
  2. Twins (1988) — Mitchell Traven
  3. On the Waterfront (1954) — Cab Driver (uncredited)
  4. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) — Toff
  5. An American Tail (1986) — Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
  6. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) — Rabbi
  7. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Carl Lanser
  8. Little House on the Prairie (1974) — Mr. Olaf Lundstrom
  9. MacGyver (1985) — Sam Bolinski
  10. Columbo (1971) — Jesse Jerome
  11. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) — Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
  12. Law & Order (1990) — David Steinmetz
  13. The Wrong Man (1956) — Gene Conforti
  14. Wonder Woman (1975) — Professor Moreno
  15. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Constantin Stavros
  16. Magnum, P.I. (1980) — Rabbi Asher Solomon
  17. The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) — Major Popov
  18. Mission: Impossible (1966) — Igor Stravos
  19. Battlestar Galactica (1978) — Eastern Alliance Leader
  20. The Bionic Woman (1976)
  21. Yentl (1983) — Rebbe Mendel
  22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Ralph Collins
  23. Gilligan's Island (1964)
  24. Angels in America (2003) — Rabbi (uncredited)
  25. Charlie's Angels (1976) — Anton
  26. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) — Shemiah
  27. The Comancheros (1961) — Graile
  28. Highway to Heaven (1984)
  29. An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998) — Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
  30. The Time Tunnel (1966) — Prof. Anton Biraki
  31. Hawaii Five-O (1968) — Harry Cardonus
  32. An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999) — Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
  33. The Harder They Fall (1956) — Leo
  34. The Untouchables (1959) — Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik
  35. Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989) — Max Wernick
  36. Fantasy Island (1978) — Horst Von Stern
  37. The Day of the Owl (1968) — Pizzuco
  38. Quincy, M.E. (1976)
  39. Gunsmoke (1955) — Jack Pinto
  40. Day of the Outlaw (1959) — Dan, Starret's Foreman