Nehemiah Persoff
Acting
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.
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Self - Interviewee
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
Self
4 Faces
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Twins
Mitchell Traven
The Last Temptation of Christ
Rabbi
An American Tail
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Yentl
Rebbe Mendel
St. Helens
Mr. Ellison
O'Hara's Wife
Dr. Fischer
Turnover Smith
Ashmed Amad
The Henderson Monster
Prof. Leo Tedeschi
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Josef Stalin
In Search of Historic Jesus
Herod Antipas
A Cry For Justice
Dr. Burke
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Malimar
A Double Life
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Charles Frohman
Killing Stone
Earl Stone
The Making of a President
Deadly Harvest
Mort Logan
Voyage of the Damned
Herr Hauser
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Rudenko
Psychic Killer
Doctor Gubner
Eric
Dr. Duchesnes
The Stranger Within
Dr. Edward Klein
The Sex Symbol
Nick Fortis
Dracula
Dr. Van Helsing
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Champagne Joe Carroll
Lapin 360
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
Artie Moreno
Red Sky at Morning
Amadeo Montoya
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Berisha
The People Next Door
Dr. Salazar
Cutter's Trail
Santillo
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Lieutenant Crawford
Escape to Mindanao
Capt. Kramer
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
Captain Malcione
Panic in the City
August Best
The Power
Prof. Carl Melnicker
The Day of the Owl
Pizzuco
The Money Jungle
Lt. Dow Reeves
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
Skoda
Too Many Thieves
Georgi
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Shemiah
Fate Is the Hunter
Ben Sawyer
A Global Affair
Under Secretary Segura
The Hook
Capt. Van Ryn
The Comancheros
Graile
The Big Show
Bruno Everard
The Killers of Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Day of the Outlaw
Dan, Starret's Foreman
Al Capone
Johnny Torrio
Green Mansions
Don Panta
Some Like It Hot
Little Bonaparte
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pablo
Never Steal Anything Small
Pinelli
The Badlanders
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
This Angry Age
Albert Legros
The Death of Manolete
Camera
Street of Sinners
Leon
Men in War
Sgt. Lewis
Mayerling
Police Officer
The Wrong Man
Gene Conforti
The Wild Party
Kicks Johnson
The Harder They Fall
Leo
The Thief
D'Arnault-Olivier
On the Waterfront
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Marty
The Critic