Nehemiah Persoff
Known for: Acting
Born: August 2, 1919
Died: April 5, 2022
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,…
Known for
The Killers of Mussolini
1959
Escape to Mindanao
1968
Deadly Harvest
1977
An American Tail
1986
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998
Street of Sinners
1957
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971
The Big Show
1961
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
A Cry for Justice
1979
Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
Yentl
1983
The Comancheros
1961
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
1999
Psychic Killer
1975
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
1966
Panic in the City
1968
The Making of a President
1978
Too Many Thieves
1966
The Money Jungle
1967
Lapin 360
1972
Dracula
1973
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991
Al Capone
1959
Men in War
1957
The Henderson Monster
1980
The Hook
1963
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
The Death of Manolete
1957
The Stranger Within
1974
The Day of the Owl
1968
Eric
1975
Green Mansions
1959
The People Next Door
1970
The Wild Party
1956
This Angry Age
1957
The Badlanders
1958
Cutter's Trail
1970
The Thief
1955
Some Like It Hot
1959
Day of the Outlaw
1959
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
A Global Affair
1964
The Sex Symbol
1974
Killing Stone
1978
4 Faces
2001
A Double Life
1978
Mayerling
1957
Turnover Smith
1980
Red Sky at Morning
1971
St. Helens
1982
Marty
1953
The Harder They Fall
1956
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
The Wrong Man
1956
Twins
1988
The Power
1968
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
O'Hara's Wife
1982
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
On the Waterfront
1954
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Columbo
1971
Burke's Law
1963
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
L.A. Law
1986
Little House on the Prairie
1974
The Facts of Life
1979
Mr. Lucky
1959
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Gilligan's Island
1964
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Route 66
1960
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
Baretta
1975
Naked City
1958
Land of the Giants
1968
Charlie's Angels
1976
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Hotel
1982
MacGyver
1985
The Mod Squad
1968
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
Gunsmoke
1955
Wonder Woman
1975
Mission: Impossible
1966
Adam-12
1968
Hunter
1984
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Twilight Zone
1959
Chicago Hope
1994
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Sam Benedict
1962
Bus Stop
1961
Rawhide
1959
Vega$
1978
Police Story
1973
The High Chaparral
1967
The Chicago Teddy Bears
1971
Search
1972
McCloud
1970
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Big Valley
1965
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
The Word
1978
Tarzan
1966
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Ben Casey
1961
Ellery Queen
1975
Mr. Novak
1963
The New Breed
1961
Playwrights '56
1955
Honey West
1965
The Wonderful World of Disney
1961
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
Jericho
1966
J.J. Starbuck
1987
Logan's Run
1977
The Bionic Woman
1976
The United States Steel Hour
1953
B.A.D. Cats
1980
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Untouchables
1959
Purple Playhouse
1973
The Name of the Game
1968
Battlestar Galactica
1978
Condominium
1980
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
Law & Order
1990
The Wild Wild West
1965
Playhouse 90
1956
Hunter
1977
McMillan & Wife
1971
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
Mannix
1967
Barney Miller
1975
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
The Time Tunnel
1966
Murder, She Wrote
1984
It Takes a Thief
1968
The Invisible Man
1975
Dan August
1970
Cool Million
1972
Love, American Style
1969
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
Wagon Train
1957
The Rebels
1979
Angels in America
2003
Supertrain
1979
Startime
1959
CBS Playhouse
1966
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989