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