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.
71 movies · 102 shows
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022·10.0
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012·7.4
4 Faces
2001·7.0
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
1999·6.3
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998·6.3
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991·6.3
Twins
1988·6.0
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988·7.2
An American Tail
1986·6.8
Yentl
1983·6.7
O'Hara's Wife
1982·5.7
St. Helens
1982·6.0
Turnover Smith
1980·7.0
The Henderson Monster
1980·6.0
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980·6.9
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979·5.5
A Cry for Justice
1979·9.0
Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978·0.0
A Double Life
1978·9.0
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978·7.0
Killing Stone
1978·7.0
The Making of a President
1978·0.0
Deadly Harvest
1977·4.7
Voyage of the Damned
1976·6.0
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976·7.0
Psychic Killer
1975·5.3
Eric
1975·9.0
The Stranger Within
1974·6.6
The Sex Symbol
1974·4.0
Dracula
1973·7.0
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972·7.0
Lapin 360
1972·6.5
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972·8.0
Red Sky at Morning
1971·7.1
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971·6.3
The People Next Door
1970·5.9
Cutter's Trail
1970·8.0
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969·6.0
Escape to Mindanao
1968·9.0
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968·0.0
Panic in the City
1968·5.6
The Power
1968·6.3
The Day of the Owl
1968·7.1
The Money Jungle
1967·5.6
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
1966·8.0
Too Many Thieves
1966·5.7
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965·6.4
Fate Is the Hunter
1964·6.5
A Global Affair
1964·5.3
The Hook
1963·6.2
The Comancheros
1961·6.7
The Big Show
1961·5.8
The Killers of Mussolini
1959·0.0
Day of the Outlaw
1959·6.8
Al Capone
1959·6.6
Some Like It Hot
1959·8.1
Green Mansions
1959·5.7
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959·0.0
Never Steal Anything Small
1959·8.2
The Badlanders
1958·6.2
This Angry Age
1957·6.1
The Death of Manolete
1957·6.0
Street of Sinners
1957·7.7
Men in War
1957·6.6
Mayerling
1957·6.1
The Wrong Man
1956·7.1
The Wild Party
1956·6.6
The Harder They Fall
1956·7.2
The Thief
1955·4.0
On the Waterfront
1954·7.9
Marty
1953·8.0