Nehemiah Persoff
Acting • Born 1919-08-02 – Died 2022-04-05
Biography
Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American film and television 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.
Filmography
196 credits
Some Like It Hot
Movie • 1959
Little Bonaparte
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1959
Pablo
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
Movie • 1968
Captain Malcione
Yentl
Movie • 1983
Rebbe Mendel
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie • 1965
Shemiah
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Movie • 1991
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
An American Tail
Movie • 1986
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Comancheros
Movie • 1961
Graile
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Movie • 1998
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Wrong Man
Movie • 1956
Gene Conforti
Twins
Movie • 1988
Mitchell Traven
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
Movie • 1999
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Harder They Fall
Movie • 1956
Leo
Al Capone
Movie • 1959
Johnny Torrio
Day of the Outlaw
Movie • 1959
Dan, Starret's Foreman
Men in War
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Lewis
The Last Temptation of Christ
Movie • 1988
Rabbi
The Power
Movie • 1968
Prof. Carl Melnicker
Escape to Mindanao
Movie • 1968
Capt. Kramer
Green Mansions
Movie • 1959
Don Panta
Psychic Killer
Movie • 1975
Doctor Gubner
Deadly Harvest
Movie • 1977
Mort Logan
Fate Is the Hunter
Movie • 1964
Ben Sawyer
The People Next Door
Movie • 1970
Dr. Salazar
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Movie • 1969
Lieutenant Crawford
A Global Affair
Movie • 1964
Under Secretary Segura
Street of Sinners
Movie • 1957
Leon
The Wild Party
Movie • 1956
Kicks Johnson
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
Movie • 1966
Skoda
The Sex Symbol
Movie • 1974
Nick Fortis
The Henderson Monster
Movie • 1980
Prof. Leo Tedeschi
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Movie • 1971
Berisha
The Big Show
Movie • 1961
Bruno Everard
The Hook
Movie • 1963
Capt. Van Ryn
Never Steal Anything Small
Movie • 1959
Pinelli
On the Waterfront
Movie • 1954
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Panic in the City
Movie • 1968
August Best
The Death of Manolete
Movie • 1957
Camera
This Angry Age
Movie • 1957
Albert Legros
In Search of Historic Jesus
Movie • 1979
Herod Antipas
The Making of a President
Movie • 1978
The Badlanders
Movie • 1958
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Killing Stone
Movie • 1978
Earl Stone
4 Faces
Movie • 2001
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Movie • 2022
Self - Interviewee
Too Many Thieves
Movie • 1966
Georgi
The Money Jungle
Movie • 1967
Lt. Dow Reeves
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Movie • 1980
Josef Stalin
Red Sky at Morning
Movie • 1971
Amadeo Montoya
Lapin 360
Movie • 1972
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Movie • 1976
Rudenko
Voyage of the Damned
Movie • 1976
Herr Hauser
The Stranger Within
Movie • 1974
Dr. Edward Klein
A Cry For Justice
Movie • 1979
Dr. Burke
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Movie • 1978
Malimar
Dracula
Movie • 1973
Dr. Van Helsing
The Day of the Owl
Movie • 1968
Pizzuco
O'Hara's Wife
Movie • 1982
Dr. Fischer
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Movie • 1978
Charles Frohman
A Double Life
Movie • 1978
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Movie • 2012
Self
Mayerling
Movie • 1957
Police Officer
Eric
Movie • 1975
Dr. Duchesnes
Cutter's Trail
Movie • 1970
Santillo
Turnover Smith
Movie • 1980
Ashmed Amad
The Killers of Mussolini
Movie • 1959
Benito Mussolini
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
Movie • 1972
Artie Moreno
St. Helens
Movie • 1982
Mr. Ellison
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Movie • 1972
Champagne Joe Carroll
The Thief
Movie • 1955
D'Arnault-Olivier
Marty
Movie • 1953
The Critic
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Rabbi Asher Solomon
Columbo
TV • 1971
Jesse Jerome
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Jason Flonder
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Toff
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Rabbi Isadore Glickman
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
The Facts of Life
TV • 1979
Mr. Lucky
TV • 1959
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Harry Cardonus
Gilligan's Island
TV • 1964
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Route 66
TV • 1960
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Max Behrman
Baretta
TV • 1975
Land of the Giants
TV • 1968
Titus
Naked City
TV • 1958
Barney Peters
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Anton
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Hotel
TV • 1982
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Sam Bolinski
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
The Bill Cosby Show
TV • 1969
Mr. Byron
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jack Pinto
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Professor Moreno
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Igor Stravos
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Angelo Covelli
Hunter
TV • 1984
Harold Goodman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dr. Duchesnes
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Carl Lanser
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Rabbi Ben Taubler
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Ralph Collins
Sam Benedict
TV • 1962
Bus Stop
TV • 1961
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Domingo
Vega$
TV • 1978
Police Story
TV • 1973
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Homero José
The Chicago Teddy Bears
TV • 1971
Search
TV • 1972
McCloud
TV • 1970
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Jules Dreise
Climax!
TV • 1954
Lieutenant Cal Nourse
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
General Vicente Ruiz
Armstrong Circle Theatre
TV • 1950
The Word
TV • 1978
Abbot Petropolous
Tarzan
TV • 1966
Chembe Kunji
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Ed Kagan
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Ellery Queen
TV • 1975
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Henry Selkirk
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Louis Morley
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Honey West
TV • 1965
Faustini
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1961
The Legend of Jesse James
TV • 1965
El Carnicero
Jericho
TV • 1966
J.J. Starbuck
TV • 1987
Logan's Run
TV • 1977
ASA
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
Dr. Arnault / Oliver
Naked City
TV • 1958
Dominic Venussi
Naked City
TV • 1958
Max Evar
Naked City
TV • 1958
Carlos Ruldan
Naked City
TV • 1958
Berco Romanu
Naked City
TV • 1958
Merritt Griffin
B.A.D. Cats
TV • 1980
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Alverian
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Artie Moreno
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Michob
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Phillipe Pereda
Purple Playhouse
TV • 1973
Dr. Van Helsing
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Johnny Fortunato
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Mr. Dano
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Ambassador
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Alex Skouras
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Driscoll
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Ben Rando
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Alejo Etchahoun
Battlestar Galactica
TV • 1978
Eastern Alliance Leader
Condominium
TV • 1980
Conlaw
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Albert Indigo, 'Mr. I'
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Wilhelm Kasimer
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
TV • 1976
Charles Dietrich
The French Atlantic Affair
TV • 1979
Col. Schreiner
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Major Popov
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Winkler
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Leo Paoli
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Cordell
Law & Order
TV • 1990
David Steinmetz
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Victor Palua
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Allie Francis
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Jeff Jensen
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Major Hazard
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Pablo
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Prince Iben Kostas
Hunter
TV • 1977
Sheik Farakbi
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Clementa Habib
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Nick Master
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
TV • 1968
Captain Malcione
Mannix
TV • 1967
Anton Wojeska
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
Carl Simms
McNaughton's Daughter
TV • 1976
Vinnie Laine
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
Yacov Berger
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Prof. Anton Biraki
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Constantin Stavros
It Takes a Thief
TV • 1968
Harry Lavender
The Invisible Man
TV • 1975
Dr. Leon Barnard
Dan August
TV • 1970
Leo Cussoni
Cool Million
TV • 1972
Karinakis
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Mr. Stone
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV • 1977
Vladimir
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
Ali Baba
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Gen. Andreas Cassinello
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Valandros
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Prisoners Father
The Motorola Television Hour
TV • 1953
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Waxey Gordon
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Tiburcio Mendez
McCloud
TV • 1970
Perry Cicero
The Rebels
TV • 1979
Baron Von Steuben