Nehemiah Persoff

Personal Info

Birthday

August 2, 1919

Day of Death

2022-04-05

(102 years old)

Place of Birth

Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Nehemiah Persoff

Biography

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.

Known For

Law & Order

Columbo

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Murder, She Wrote

MacGyver

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Six Million Dollar Man

Magnum, P.I.

Filmography

2022
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
as Self - Interviewee
2012
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
as Self
1999
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
1998
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
1991
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
1988
Twins
as Mitchell Traven
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Rabbi
1986
An American Tail
as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
1983
Yentl
as Rebbe Mendel
1982
St. Helens
as Mr. Ellison
O'Hara's Wife
as Dr. Fischer
1980
Turnover Smith
as Ashmed Amad
The Henderson Monster
as Prof. Leo Tedeschi
F.D.R.: The Last Year
as Josef Stalin
1979
In Search of Historic Jesus
as Herod Antipas
A Cry For Justice
as Dr. Burke
The Rebels
as Baron Von Steuben
1978
Daniel in the Lions' Den
as Malimar
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
as Charles Frohman
Killing Stone
as Earl Stone
1977
Deadly Harvest
as Mort Logan
1976
Voyage of the Damned
as Herr Hauser
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
as Rudenko
1975
Psychic Killer
as Doctor Gubner
Eric
as Dr. Duchesnes
1974
The Stranger Within
as Dr. Edward Klein
The Sex Symbol
as Nick Fortis
1973
Dracula
as Dr. Van Helsing
1972
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
as Champagne Joe Carroll
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
as Artie Moreno
1971
Red Sky at Morning
as Amadeo Montoya
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
as Berisha
1970
The People Next Door
as Dr. Salazar
Cutter's Trail
as Santillo
1969
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
as Lieutenant Crawford
1968
Escape to Mindanao
as Capt. Kramer
Panic in the City
as August Best
The Power
as Prof. Carl Melnicker
The Day of the Owl
as Pizzuco
1967
The Money Jungle
as Lt. Dow Reeves
1966
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
as Skoda
Too Many Thieves
as Georgi
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Shemiah
1964
Fate Is the Hunter
as Ben Sawyer
A Global Affair
as Under Secretary Segura
1963
The Hook
as Capt. Van Ryn
1961
The Comancheros
as Graile
The Big Show
as Bruno Everard
1959
Day of the Outlaw
as Dan, Starret's Foreman
The Killers of Mussolini
as Benito Mussolini
Al Capone
as Johnny Torrio
Some Like It Hot
as Little Bonaparte
Green Mansions
as Don Panta
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Pablo
Never Steal Anything Small
as Pinelli
1958
The Badlanders
as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
1957
This Angry Age
as Albert Legros
The Death of Manolete
as Camera
Street of Sinners
as Leon
Men in War
as Sgt. Lewis
Mayerling
as Police Officer
1956
The Wrong Man
as Gene Conforti
The Wild Party
as Kicks Johnson
The Harder They Fall
as Leo
1955
The Thief
as D'Arnault-Olivier
1954
On the Waterfront
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1953
Marty
as The Critic