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