Nehemiah Persoff

    Nehemiah Persoff

    2. august 1919 (107 aastat), 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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    Law & Order

    1990
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    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    1987
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    Columbo

    1971
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    Chicago Hope

    1994
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    Murder, She Wrote

    1984
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    Väike maja preerias

    1974
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    Magnum, P.I.

    1980
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    MacGyver

    1985
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    Mission: Impossible

    1966
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    Mission: Impossible

    1966
    Mission: Impossible plakat 7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966
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    Wagon Train

    1957

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