Nehemiah Persoff
Known for: Acting
Born: August 2, 1919
Died: April 5, 2022
Place of birth: Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
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
71 movies · 102 TV shows, newest first
10.0
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
7.4
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
7.6
Angels in America
20037.0
4 Faces
2001
6.3
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
1999
6.3
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998
7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
6.3
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
1991
7.3
Law & Order
1990
6.7
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989
6.1
Twins
1988
7.2
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
6.0
J.J. Starbuck
1987
6.8
An American Tail
1986
7.1
L.A. Law
1986
7.7
MacGyver
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.1
Hunter
1984
6.7
Yentl
1983
6.7
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.8
Hotel
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
5.7
O'Hara's Wife
1982
6.0
St. Helens
1982
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
7.0
Turnover Smith
1980
6.0
The Henderson Monster
1980
6.9
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980
4.2
Condominium
1980
6.3
B.A.D. Cats
1980
7.2
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
7.1
The Facts of Life
1979
4.8
In Search of Historic Jesus
1979
9.0
A Cry for Justice
1979
10.0
The Rebels
1979
5.6
Supertrain
1979
NR
Daniel in the Lions' Den
1978
4.8
The Word
1978
6.9
Vega$
1978
7.1
Battlestar Galactica
1978
9.0
A Double Life
1978
7.0
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
7.0
Killing Stone
1978
6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
NR
The Making of a President
1978
6.8
Logan's Run
1977
4.7
Deadly Harvest
1977
8.2
Hunter
1977
7.1
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
6.0
Voyage of the Damned
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.0
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
1976
8.3
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
19764.5
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
7.0
The Bionic Woman
1976
5.1
Psychic Killer
1975
9.0
Eric
1975
7.0
Wonder Woman
1975
7.5
Ellery Queen
1975
6.2
The Invisible Man
1975
7.3
Barney Miller
1975
6.5
Baretta
1975
6.6
The Stranger Within
1974
4.0
The Sex Symbol
1974
8.0
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.3
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974
7.0
Police Story
1973
9.0
Purple Playhouse
19737.0
Dracula
1973
7.0
Cool Million
1972
7.0
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
6.5
Lapin 360
1972
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.1
Search
1972
8.0
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972
7.1
McMillan & Wife
19716.7
The Chicago Teddy Bears
1971
8.1
Columbo
1971
7.1
Red Sky at Morning
1971
6.3
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971
7.2
Dan August
1970
5.9
The People Next Door
1970
7.2
McCloud
1970
8.0
Cutter's Trail
1970
6.0
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969
6.2
Love, American Style
1969
6.6
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
5.5
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
9.0
Escape to Mindanao
1968
NR
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
NR
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
1968
5.5
Panic in the City
1968
6.1
The Mod Squad
1968
6.8
Land of the Giants
1968
7.1
Adam-12
1968
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
6.3
The Power
1968
7.1
The Day of the Owl
1968
7.2
It Takes a Thief
1968
5.6
The Money Jungle
1967
6.8
Mannix
1967
6.8
The High Chaparral
1967
8.0
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
19667.0
CBS Playhouse
1966
5.7
Too Many Thieves
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
7.3
Jericho
1966
7.6
The Time Tunnel
1966
6.9
Tarzan
1966
7.2
Honey West
1965
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965
6.2
The Big Valley
1965
5.8
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
6.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
6.5
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
7.4
Gilligan's Island
1964
7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
5.3
A Global Affair
19645.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
7.3
Mr. Novak
1963
6.3
Burke's Law
1963
6.2
The Hook
1963
6.7
Sam Benedict
1962
6.7
The Comancheros
1961
7.7
The New Breed
1961
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
10.0
Bus Stop
1961
8.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
1961
5.8
The Big Show
1961
6.7
Route 66
1960
6.7
Mr. Lucky
1959
8.0
The Untouchables
1959
6.8
Startime
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
NR
The Killers of Mussolini
1959
6.8
Day of the Outlaw
1959
6.6
Al Capone
1959
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959
5.7
Green Mansions
1959
NR
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959
8.2
Never Steal Anything Small
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
5.7
Naked City
1958
6.2
The Badlanders
1958
6.5
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
6.1
This Angry Age
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
1957
6.0
The Death of Manolete
1957
7.7
Street of Sinners
1957
6.6
Men in War
1957
6.1
Mayerling
1957
7.1
The Wrong Man
1956
6.6
The Wild Party
1956
7.5
Playhouse 90
1956
7.2
The Harder They Fall
19566.3
Playwrights '56
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
4.0
The Thief
1955
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
3.8
Climax!
1954
7.9
On the Waterfront
1954
10.0
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
6.3
The United States Steel Hour
1953
8.0
Marty
1953
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
4.5
Armstrong Circle Theatre
1950
6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948