Nehemiah Persoff
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1919-08-02
- Fallecimiento:
- 2022-04-05
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
Biografía
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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Filmografía
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Tony Curtis - le gamin de Bronx
Angeles en América
4 Faces
Fievel, el misterio del monstruo nocturno
Fievel en Manhattan
Chicago Hope
Fievel va al Oeste
Ley y orden
Un médico precoz
Los gemelos golpean dos veces
La última tentación de Cristo
Star Trek: La nueva generación
J.J. Starbuck
Fievel y el nuevo mundo
La ley de Los Ángeles
MacGyver
Se ha escrito un crimen
Autopista hacia el cielo
Hunter
Yentl
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Hotel
American Playhouse
El cielo puede esperar, pero la mujer de O'Hara no
El volcán asesino
Magnum
Turnover Smith
Henderson, el monstruo
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Condominium
B.A.D. Cats
The French Atlantic Affair
The Facts of Life
In Search of Historic Jesus
A Cry for Justice
The Rebels
Supertrén
Daniel in the Lions' Den
The Word
Vega$
Galáctica: Estrella de combate
A Double Life
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Killing Stone
La isla de la Fantasía
The Making of a President
La fuga de Logan
Cosecha mortal
Hunter
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
El viaje de los malditos
Quincy, M.E.
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Los ángeles de Charlie
Hombre rico, hombre pobre II
McNaughton's Daughter
La mujer biónica
Psychic Killer
Eric
La mujer maravilla
Ellery Queen
The Invisible Man
Barney Miller
Baretta
The Stranger Within
The Sex Symbol
La casa de la pradera
El hombre de los seis millones de dólares
Police Story
Purple Playhouse
Dracula
Cool Million
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Lapin 360
Las calles de San Francisco
Search
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
McMillan y esposa
The Chicago Teddy Bears
Colombo
Red Sky at Morning
Cómo me hice agente de la CIA
Dan August
The People Next Door
McCloud
Cutter's Trail
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Love, American Style
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Bill Cosby Show
Hawaii 5-0
Escape to Mindanao
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
Panic in the City
Patrulla juvenil
Tierra de gigantes
Área 12
The Name of the Game
El poder
El día de la lechuza
Ladrón sin destino
The Money Jungle
Mannix
El gran Chaparral
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
CBS Playhouse
Too Many Thieves
Misión. Imposible
Jericho
El túnel del tiempo
Tarzan
La rubia peligrosa
Jim West
The Big Valley
The Legend of Jesse James
La historia más grande jamás contada
Los pasos del destino
La isla de Gilligan
El agente de CIPOL
Un biberón en la ONU
La hora de los famosos
Mr. Novak
El agente Burke
Silencio de muerte
Sam Benedict
Los comancheros
The New Breed
Ben Casey
Bus Stop
The Wonderful World of Disney
El gran espectáculo
Route 66
Mr. Lucky
Los Intocables
Startime
La dimensión desconocida
The Killers of Mussolini
El día de los forajidos
Al Capone
Con faldas y a lo loco
Mansiones verdes
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Never Steal Anything Small
Cuero crudo
Naked City
Arizona. Prisión federal
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Tiempos de ira
Caravana
The Death of Manolete
Street of Sinners
La colina de los diablos de acero
Mayerling
Falso culpable
Una fiesta sin fin
Playhouse 90
Más dura será la caída
Playwrights '56
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
La ley del revólver
The Thief
The Wonderful World of Disney
Climax!
La ley del silencio
The Motorola Television Hour
The United States Steel Hour
Marty
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Armstrong Circle Theatre
The Philco Television Playhouse