Nehemiah Persoff
Nacimiento : 1919-08-02, Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate
Muerte : 2022-04-05
Historia
Nehemiah Persoff (born August 2, 1919) was a former American film and television character 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.
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Self - Interviewee
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The Ghoul, The Walking Dead (1936), Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), the Mr Wong series, The Climax (1944), Lured (1947), The Strange Door (1951), Grip of the Strangler and Corridors of Blood(1958), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), the Mexican quartet, some of his major TV appearances (The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Wild Wild West, I-Spy) as well as taking a deep look at his often ignored Broadway career in the 1940s and 50's. There is also much time devoted to Karloff's more personal side and his relationship with his daughter, Sara.
Self
Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the original movie star.
A southern pastor under fire, a father with an addicted son, an SS man in South America and a holocaust survivor in four tales, portrayed by the same actor.
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Un feroz monstruo está aterrorizando a todos los ratones de Manhattan y persigue al pobre Fievel en sus pesadillas. Haciendo equipo con un reportero, Fievel y sus amigos inician una caza de la exclusiva del siglo y del propio monstruo. Cuarta película protagonizada por Fievel, al igual que la tercera lanzada directamente al mercado del DVD.
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Fievel y su familia tratan de vivir su propio sueño americano en Nueva York, pero cuando un misterioso mapa de un tesoro cae en manos del ratoncito y sus amigos, este les lleva a un mundo secreto bajo la ciudad en donde encontrarán algo aún más precioso que el oro y las joyas.
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
La familia de Fievel decide volver a mudarse. Los Estados no resultan todo lo buenos que ellos esperaban, así que deciden ir a un destino algo más cálido: al lejano Oeste, en donde los gatos y los ratones son amigos. Por supuesto, Fievel no termina de creerse todo este cuento, y más tras escuchar la conversación que un grupo de gatos mantiene en el tren rumbo al oeste: los gatos no son en absoluto amistosos, sólo quieren confiar a los ratones para que, cuando menos se lo esperen puedan llenar sus estómagos. Pero allí está Fievel, más crecido, más maduro y mucho, mucho más travieso que, junto con su amigo Tigre y nuevos piensa defender su pueblo como el mejor de los sherifs.
Mitchell Traven
Dos gemelos que vinieron al mundo por un experimento de carácter científico se encuentran al cabo de los años, tras haber pasado la mayor parte de sus vidas separados. Una vez juntos tratan de encontrar a su madre que según parece reside cerca de la frontera de México. El viaje hasta allí será aprovechado por uno de ellos para entregar una valiosa mercancía.
Rabbi
Jesús, un carpintero de Nazaret, decide atender la constante llamada de Dios. Pero cuando está a punto de completar su misión, debe hacer frente a la mayor de las tentaciones y realizar un sacrificio para salvar a todos los hombres.
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Viajando en barco desde Rusia hasta la soñada América, Fievel se pierde en el mar durante una feroz tormenta. Viviendo después en los suburbios de Nueva York, se enfrentará a los peligros y maravillas de este extraño lugar en una apasionante búsqueda de su familia.
Rebbe Mendel
La hija de un rabino se hace pasar por varón para estudiar en una escuela reservada para hombres. La polifacética Barbra Streisand consiguió el reconocimiento no sólo por su interpretación de la joven judía, sino por ser la primera película de la historia producida, dirigida, escrita e interpretada por una mujer.
Mr. Ellison
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
Doctor Fisher
Incapaz de enfrentarse a la muerte de su difunta esposa, Robert visita a menudo la tumba de su mujer para mantener conversaciones, ya que él cree que su mujer aún le oye. Un ruido interrumpe una de sus conversaciones y una sorpresa le cambiará su vida y su futuro para siempre.
Ashmed Amad
A criminology professor uses scientific methods, advanced computer technology, his expertise in chess, and the leg work of several of his students to track down a crazed killer in San Francisco.
Prof. Leo Tedeschi
Un famoso científico, mientras realiza experimentos con ADN, accidentalmente crea un monstruo.
Josef Stalin
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Herod Antipas
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
Baron Von Steuben
Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) toma parte en la revolución americana y en el recientemente formado congreso.
Malimar
Daniel is thrown into the lion's den for his part in a plot, and the rest is the familiar Bible story.
Charles Frohman
Four women intimate with the showman tell his life story.
Earl Stone
Returning from prison after serving ten years on trumped-up charges, a freelance writer tries to uncover the truth behind a homicide involving the son of a U.S. senator in this pilot for a prospective series.
After the death of his parents, millionaire playboy Jack Cole is framed on charges of embezzlement. In prison, Cole learns various tricks of the criminal trade - lockpicking, safecracking, electronic surveillance, etc. Upon his release, Cole uses his wealth and his newly learned talents to help others, leaving his calling card, a "sword of justice", at the scene.
Mort Logan
Durante una gran hambruna, un granjero se esfuerza por sacar a su familia adelante y por recuperar a su hijo, que se ha unido a un grupo de delincuentes.
Herr Hauser
En 1939, un barco lleno de judíos alemanes que huyen del régimen nazi intentan refugiarse en La Habana. Algunos son víctimas de los primeros campos de concentración, otros intentan reunirse con sus parientes en Cuba. Sin embargo, cuando llegan a su destino, las autoridades cubanas los obligan a volver a Alemania mientras el resto del mundo mira hacia otro lado. Ésta es la historia del llamado "viaje de la vergüenza".
Rudenko
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
Doctor Gubner
Un hombre es confinado en un asilo para enfermos mentales de forma errónea, y desarrolla unos poderes psíquicos que le serán de suma utilidad a la hora de llevar a cabo su letal venganza.
Dr. Duchesnes
The disease: incurable. The odds: insurmountable. But Eric will not surrender! An unforgettable true drama of a young man's fight for hope, for love, for life. A two-hour special adapted from Doris Lund's best-seller "Eric."
Dr. Edward Klein
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
Nick Fortis
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
Dr. Van Helsing
This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoker's original vision for the character.
Champagne Joe Carroll
After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
Delia Peletier has been paid to have a child for a wealthy man who wants an heir. She has the baby and turns it over to her "employer," but subsequently decides she wants the child back. She hires three men to kidnap the child. The quartet hides out in the house of Bernard Lapin, a nuclear scientist they believe to be away on business. Lapin returns, however, and becomes romantically involved with Delia. Meanwhile, her three kidnappers turn on her when they learn she actually wants the child and not the ransom money as she claimed.
Artie Moreno
The name Michael O'Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generations of Michael O'Haras and all have been exemplary policemen. When Michael O'Hara III's child was born he was told that they would not be able to have any more children, and there has always been a Michael O'Hara, so he named his child Michael O'Hara IV despite the fact that she is a girl. Now Mike has a tendency to get involved with police matters and not always with good results, which annoys her father. And despite being told repeatedly to stay out of it, she continues her amateurish detective activities.
Amadeo Montoya
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexico. Joshua has a difficult time fitting in, finding himself a minority in a predominantly Latino community, and his mother doesn't fare much better, treating her loneliness with increasing quantities of alcohol. At length, Joshua makes some friends and begins to adjust, but bad news from overseas threatens to spoil what he's accomplished.
Berisha
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
Dr. Salazar
A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.
Santillo
The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.
Lieutenant Crawford
A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance adventurer. The gang threatens to kill Johnny, unless he solves the murder. The CIA also investigates - because it turns out that the slaying was part of a long-range Communist plan to take over the crime syndicate. Cain's search for clues leads him into a maze of beautiful girls, mysterious Oriental statues and murderous spies.
Capt. Kramer
Two American POWs break out of a Japanese jungle prison camp with their captors' secret decoding device and try to reach freedom despite being slowed by an opportunistic sea captain, his pretty daughter, and a black marketeer.
Captain Malcione
The story concerns young David Jones, who travels to Italy during his vacation to work with his uncle, Max, an archaeologist who raises ancient artifacts from the ocean floor. One of Max's divers is killed and the site becomes suspect--especially after several of the artifacts disappear; they know these will be sold illegally to rich collectors. When word gets out that these items have disappeared, other men are endangered on the site, and, indeed, someone tries to kill Dave. Helping Dave and his uncle is a young Italian boy named Augusto Donato, who tells Dave to call him "Gus." Dave teaches him to dive and in return Gus helps Dave spy on several of the suspects and also helps save his life when Dave is attacked.
August Best
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
Prof. Carl Melnicker
Uno a uno, los miembros del equipo de un proyecto especial están siendo asesinados por telequinesis, la habilidad de mover cosas usando sólo el poder de la mente. El objetivo es descubrir quién de los miembros que quedan es el asesino y detenerle.
Pizzuco
La poderosa mafia siciliana, con intereses en la construcción, muestra sus mecanismos para ejercer y mantener el poder. Hay un cadáver y un desaparecido. La esposa del desaparecido, Rosa, es investigada por la policía, pero el Capitán Bellodi comienza a sospechar de Don Mariano, pero no logra encontrar evidencias ni testigos, ya que su labor es obstruída por las influencias del padrino mafioso en el gobierno.
Lt. Dow Reeves
When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is on to determine whether the culprit is a group of high-powered industrial interests or the government. A trouble-shooter is hired to find a net of deadly intrigue and treachery. The prize: a field to be leased to private industry by the state.
Skoda
A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
Georgi
When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things.
Shemiah
Superproducción sobre la vida de Jesús de Nazaret que contó con un extenso y conocido reparto en el que destaca Max von Sydow como Jesucristo. A partir de los Evangelios narra la vida de Jesús en la Palestina ocupada por Roma: su nacimiento en Belén, su infancia en Nazaret, los tres años de vida pública, la Última Cena, la traición de su discípulo Judas, su juicio, crucifixión y posterior resurrección.
Ben Sawyer
Una azafata y uno de los ejecutivos de una compañía aérea, se niegan a creer que el piloto de un avión haya sido el responsable de un fatal accidente y tratan de buscar las verdaderas causas de la catástrofe.
Under Secretary Segura
Un diplomático encuentra a un bebé abandonado en el edificio de las Naciones Unidas. Como nadie sabe qué país tendría que ocuparse de él, decide encargarse él mismo de cuidar al recién nacido.
Capt. Van Ryn
Durante la guerra de Corea (1950-1953), tres soldados estadounidenses reciben la orden de ejecutar a un prisionero. Pero, llegado el momento, ninguno de ellos se atreve a hacerlo, y la situación se hace cada vez más dramática.
Graile
Jake Cutter, un 'ranger' de Texas, arresta a un jugador llamado Paul Regret para llevarlo a la horca. Pronto, sin embargo, se encontrará haciendo equipo con él en otra difícil misión: acabar con una banda de forajidos que se dedican a proporcionar armas y licores a los comanches. La última película del legendario cineasta húngaro Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca") fue este wéstern que dirigió con su habitual energía, sólo un año antes de su fallecimiento y pese a tener ya 75 años. Atención a Lee Marvin en un breve pero intenso papel de villano que le sirvió claramente como inspiración para el de Liberty Valance, que interpretó al año siguiente.
Bruno Everard
Un ambicioso artísta circense provocará la desgracia de sus familiares.
Dan, Starret's Foreman
El implacable Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) y su banda de desertores se apoderan de un remoto poblado del Oeste, que permanece aislado por la nieve. Sólo el ranchero Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan), al que la llegada de los forajidos le ha entorpecido la reclamación de sus tierras, hará frente a la banda de asesinos.
Benito Mussolini
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Johnny Torrio
Retrato del legendario gángster de Chicago, que relata diversos episodios de su vida, desde su primer trabajo en el que cobraba 75 dólares a la semana hasta su ingreso en prisión. Filmada en blanco y negro con un estilo cuasidocumental, la crítica aclamó la poderosa interpretación de Steiger, la fotografía de Ballard y la dirección objetiva de Wilson.
Don Panta
Un joven que huye de la revolución en Venezuela se adentra en la selva amazónica, donde conoce a una muchacha salvaje perteneciente a una tribu. Pronto descubre que los miembros del clan quieren matar a la joven porque la consideran un demonio.
Little Bonaparte
Época de la Ley Seca (1920-1933). Joe y Jerry son dos músicos del montón que se ven obligados a huir después de ser testigos de un ajuste de cuentas entre dos bandas rivales. Como no encuentran trabajo y la mafia los persigue, deciden vestirse de mujeres y tocar en una orquesta femenina. Joe para conquistar a Sugar Kane, la cantante del grupo, finge ser un magnate impotente; mientras tanto, Jerry es cortejado por un millonario que quiere casarse con él.
Pablo
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Pinelli
Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union's presidency.
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Dos hombres salen de la cárcel de Arizona en 1898 y se dirigen a una pequeña ciudad de mineros en busca de oro y venganza. Un remake en versión western de "La jungla de asfalto"
Albert Legros
Una familia francesa intenta sobrevivir en Asia durante los días del colonialismo.
Leon
A rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.
Sfc. Lewis
Durante la Guerra de Corea (1950-1953), un teniente norteamericano curtido en cien batallas intenta reunir a los supervivientes de su batallón y llevarlos al cuartel general. Por otra parte, un hostil y poco respetuoso sargento de otra compañía quiere conducir a su coronel, agotado por el combate, a un sitio seguro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Police Officer
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Eugene 'Gene' Conforti
Manny es un músico de jazz que vive apaciblemente en Nueva York con su esposa Rose y sus dos hijos pequeños. En una aseguradora, una empleada lo confunde con un ladrón que había robado allí unos días antes y lo denuncia a la policía. Comienza entonces para él una angustiosa pesadilla: es detenido y acusado de una serie de hurtos perpetrados en el barrio. Lo terrible es que todos los testigos y las pruebas caligráficas corroboran su culpabilidad. Tras salir bajo fianza, intentará demostrar su inocencia. Mientras tanto, su esposa sufre una aguda crisis nerviosa y es internada en un psiquiátrico.
Kicks Johnson
La vida de Tom Kupfen, ex-jugador de fútbol americano, se va a pique irremediablemente. Su lugar habitual es una decadente barra de bar en una de las zonas más deprimidas de Los Ángeles. Las circunstancias hacen que acabe juntándose con una banda de holgazanes que cuenta entre sus filas con Kicks Johnson, un pianista derrotado, Gage Freeposter, un sádico capo mezquino y Honey, una chica solitaria sin expectativas. Un día, cansados de su mísera vida, secuestran a un joven oficial de la Marina y a su novia para cobrar un rescate. En tales circunstancias, lo peor de cada personaje está todavía por aparecer.
Leo
Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart), un veterano periodista, es contratado como agente de prensa por Nick Benko (Rod Steiger), un hombre sin escrúpulos, para que consiga hacer popular a Toro Moreno, un gigantesco pero torpe aspirante a boxeador, a quien hacen creer que es un gran campeón a base de amañar sus combates.
D'Arnault-Olivier
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
Cab Driver (uncredited)
El exboxeador Terry Malloy podría haber sido un serio aspirante al título, pero se ve obligado a ganarse la vida trabajando para Johnny Friendly, el jefe de la conflictiva banda de gánsteres de la ciudad. Cuando dos de los matones de Friendly asesinan brutalmente a un hombre, Terry comienza a sentirse culpable con la vida que lleva, iniciando una peligrosa lucha para derrocar el imperio del hampa
The Critic
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
