Nehemiah Persoff
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.
170 acting credits
Acting · 170
Law & Order
1990
Columbo
1971
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
Mannix
1967
Murder, She Wrote
1984
MacGyver
1985
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Charlie's Angels
1976
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Love, American Style
1969
Chicago Hope
1994
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Wagon Train
1957
Adam-12
1968
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Hunter
1984
L.A. Law
1986
Mission: Impossible
1966
Barney Miller
1975
Hotel
1982
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Naked City
1958
The Facts of Life
1979
The Twilight Zone
1959
Climax!
1954
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
Ben Casey
1961
The Wild Wild West
1965
Route 66
1960
Burke's Law
1963
The Big Valley
1965
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Untouchables
1959
Rawhide
1959
Highway to Heaven
1984
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
Baretta
1975
The Name of the Game
1968
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The High Chaparral
1967
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
McCloud
1970
Gunsmoke
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Battlestar Galactica
1978
Vega$
1978
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Land of the Giants
1968
The Time Tunnel
1966
The Bionic Woman
1976
Playhouse 90
1956
Gilligan's Island
1964
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
The Mod Squad
1968
Wonder Woman
1975
Tarzan
1966
McMillan & Wife
1971
Police Story
1973
Ellery Queen
1975
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
Mr. Novak
1963
Startime
1959
Honey West
1965
It Takes a Thief
1968
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Search
1972
Mr. Lucky
1959
Sam Benedict
1962
CBS Playhouse
1966
The New Breed
1961
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
Bus Stop
1961
Some Like It Hot
1959
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Supertrain
1979
Twins
1988
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976
Logan's Run
1977
Dan August
1970
Playwrights '56
1955
Angels in America
2003
J.J. Starbuck
1987
An American Tail
1986
Jericho
1966
Hunter
1977
On the Waterfront
1954
The Invisible Man
1975
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
The Word
1978
Cool Million
1972
The Wonderful World of Disney
1961
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Harder They Fall
1956
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991
The Comancheros
1961
Condominium
1980
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
The Chicago Teddy Bears
1971
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998
Yentl
1983
The Rebels
1979
The Wrong Man
1956
Al Capone
1959
Voyage of the Damned
1976
The Day of the Owl
1968
Day of the Outlaw
1959
B.A.D. Cats
1980
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
1999
St. Helens
1982
Green Mansions
1959
The Badlanders
1958
Men in War
1957
The Hook
1963
Purple Playhouse
1973
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
Marty
1953
Psychic Killer
1975
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
The People Next Door
1970
The Stranger Within
1974
The Power
1968
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
Mayerling
1957
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
Eric
1975
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971
A Double Life
1978
The Money Jungle
1967
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
O'Hara's Wife
1982
Turnover Smith
1980
Street of Sinners
1957
The Making of a President
1978
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
1966
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
Panic in the City
1968
Cutter's Trail
1970
4 Faces
2001
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
A Global Affair
1964
The Killers of Mussolini
1959
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969
The Sex Symbol
1974
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972
Red Sky at Morning
1971
The Henderson Monster
1980
This Angry Age
1957
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
Killing Stone
1978
Deadly Harvest
1977
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
A Cry For Justice
1979
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
The Thief
1955
Too Many Thieves
1966
The Wild Party
1956
Lapin 360
1972
The Big Show
1961
Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
Escape to Mindanao
1968
The Death of Manolete
1957
Dracula
1973