Nehemiah Persoff
Acting
Born 1919-08-02
Died 2022-04-05
Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
173 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
46 credits
Law & Order
Columbo
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Chicago Hope
Hunter
Little House on the Prairie
Murder, She Wrote
MacGyver
Magnum, P.I.
Hawaii Five-O
Mission: Impossible
Charlie's Angels
Wagon Train
The Wild Wild West
Mannix
Adam-12
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Twilight Zone
Love, American Style
L.A. Law
American Playhouse
Fantasy Island
The Six Million Dollar Man
Barney Miller
Rawhide
The Philco Television Playhouse
Climax!
The Untouchables
The Big Valley
Burke's Law
Naked City
Gunsmoke
Doogie Howser, M.D.
The High Chaparral
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Name of the Game
The Time Tunnel
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
McCloud
Battlestar Galactica
Tarzan
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Land of the Giants
McMillan & Wife
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Other credits
14 credits
Quincy, M.E.
The Facts of Life
Hotel
Highway to Heaven
Ben Casey
Route 66
The Bionic Woman
Baretta
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Vega$
The Streets of San Francisco
Gilligan's Island
Ellery Queen
Police Story
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