Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Nascimento : 1919-08-02, Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Morte : 2022-04-05

História

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nehemiah Persoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Nehemiah Persoff

Filmes

Boris Karloff:  The Rest of the Story
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.
Tony Curtis: Rumo ao estrelato
Self
Tony Curtis é uma estrela singular. O famoso ator de Hollywood teve uma infância complicada, manteve um breve caso de amor com a diva Marilyn Monroe e viu o fracasso de perto em dois casamentos. Desafios e grandes acontecimentos não faltaram na vida de um dos maiores astros do cinema.
4 Faces
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.
Um Conto Americano 4: O Mistério do Monstro da Noite
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
As histórias de um feroz monstro capturador de ratos está aterrorizando o mundo roedor de Manhattan – e assombrando os sonhos do pobre Fievel. Para acalmar seu filhinho, Mama encoraja o ratinho a acompanhar Tanya ao jornal onde ela trabalha, o “Roedor Diário”, para descobrir a verdade. Todos estão revirando as ruas, becos e passagens de Nova York, atrás da reportagem do século.
Um Conto Americano 3: O Tesouro de Nova Iorque
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Em 1986, o produtor Steven Spielberg encantou o mundo com a história do ratinho Fievel, em Um Conto Americano. O filme foi indicado a dois prêmios Oscar, faturou 45 milhões de dólares nas bilheterias dos EUA, e estabeleceu um novo padrão de qualidade para o mercado de desenhos animados de longa-metragem. Enquanto trabalha na fábrica dos ambiciosos Ratos Gordos, o Sr. Ratowitz fica imaginando se algum dia sua família vai realizar o sonho americano. Mas Fievel tem um plano. Com a ajuda de seus amigos, ele descobre um misterioso mapa do tesouro que os leva a um secreto mundo mágico sob a cidade. É lá que o corajoso ratinho conhece a bela princesa Cholena, que tem a chave do verdadeiro tesouro: as esperanças e os sonhos de um futuro melhor...
Um Conto Americano: Fievel Vai para o Oeste
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
A família do ratinho Fievel está triste, vivendo numa casinha humilde, sendo perseguida pelos gatos que os maltratavam na Europa. Fievel sonha em ser um destemido xerife como seu herói Wylie Burp. Surge, então, um gato trapaceiro que usando um ratinho marionete convence a família a ir para o Velho Oeste. Todos partem, mas entre tiroteios, cowboys e eletrizantes cavalgadas, Fievel descobre que o plano do gato vigarista é transformar toda a família em ratobúrgueres.
Irmãos Gêmeos
Mitchell Traven
Por acaso, Julius (Arnold Schwarzenegger) e Vincent (Danny DeVito) descobrem que são irmãos gêmeos. O primeiro é alto, loiro, calmo, enquanto o segundo é um chalatão baixinho e moreno. Juntos, eles vão ver como a educação em famílias diferentes moldaram suas personalidades opostas.
A Última Tentação de Cristo
Rabbi
Jesus (Willem Dafoe) é um carpinteiro que vive um grande dilema, pois é quem faz as cruzes com as quais os romanos crucificam seus oponentes. Resumindo, Jesus se sente como um judeu que mata judeus. Vivendo um terrível conflito interior ele decide ir para o deserto, mas antes pede perdão a Maria Madalena (Barbara Hershey), que se irrita com Jesus, pois não se comporta como uma prostituta e sim como uma mulher que quer sentir um homem ao seu lado. Ao retornar, Jesus volta convencido de que é o filho de Deus e logo salva Maria Madalena de ser apedrejada e morta. Então reúne doze discípulos à sua volta e prega o amor, mas seus ensinamentos são encarados como algo ameaçador, então é preso e condenado a morrer na cruz. Já crucificado, é tentado a imaginar como teria sido sua vida se fosse uma pessoa comum.
Um Conto Americano
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Na virada do século 19, a família Ratowitz emigra da Rússia para os Estados Unidos em busca de uma vida melhor. Não há gatos na América e as ruas são pavimentadas com queijo, acreditam eles. Chegando em Nova York, o pequeno ratinho Fievel fica maravilhado com a cidade e se perde dos pais. Começa uma incrível saga de encontros, desencontros, novas amizades e velhas ameaças através das perigosas ruas.
Yentl
Rebbe Mendel
Após a morte do seu pai, Yentl (Barbra Streisand) só tem uma ambição na vida: ir para a faculdade e estudar. Mas, naquela época, o lugar de uma mulher era em casa, e estudar era coisa para homens. Yentl então arriscava tudo em nome da paixão insaciável pelo estudo: finge que é homem, ingressa na universidade e realiza o seu desejo proibido. Mas, em um lugar onde até a mente mais determinada pode ser traída pelo corpo, por quanto tempo Yentl será capaz de manter seu segredo bem guardado dos seus novos amigos e do rapaz por quem se apaixonou?
St. Helens
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.
O'Hara's Wife
Doctor Fisher
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and renew relationships with his two grown children.
Turnover Smith
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.
The Henderson Monster
Prof. Leo Tedeschi
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
F.D.R.: The Last Year
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.
In Search of Historic Jesus
Herod Antipas
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
The Rebels
Baron Von Steuben
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Malimar
Daniel is thrown into the lion's den for his part in a plot, and the rest is the familiar Bible story.
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Charles Frohman
Four women intimate with the showman tell his life story.
Killing Stone
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.
A Double Life
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.
Colheita Mortal
Mort Logan
Um fazendeiro luta para manter comida na mesa e recuperar o seu filho, que se juntou a uma quadrilha de saqueadores da cidade durante a pior fome do mundo.
A Viagem dos Condenados
Herr Hauser
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
A História de Francis Gary Powers
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.
Psychic Killer
Doctor Gubner
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
Eric
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."
The Stranger Within
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.
The Sex Symbol
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.
Dracula
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.
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
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.
Lapin 360
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.
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
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.
Red Sky at Morning
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.
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
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.
The People Next Door
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.
Cutter's Trail
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.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
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.
Escape to Mindanao
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.
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
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.
Panic in the City
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.
The Power
Prof. Carl Melnicker
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
The Day of the Owl
Pizzuco
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
The Money Jungle
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.
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
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.
Too Many Thieves
Georgi
When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things.
A Maior História de Todos os Tempos
Shemiah
A vida de Jesus de Nazaré (Max von Sydow). Seu nascimento, as pregações, milagres, julgamento, crucificação e ressurreição.
O Destino é o Caçador
Ben Sawyer
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
A Global Affair
Under Secretary Segura
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
Sede de Vingança
Capt. Van Ryn
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Os Comancheros
Graile
O Capitão Cutter é um Texas Ranger determinado a encontrar e destruir um grupo de bandidos que vende armas para os índios e são chamados de Comancheros. Aprisiona um jogador de pôquer Paul Regret que acaba se transformando em seu aliado. e 14.
The Big Show
Bruno Everard
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
Quadrilha Maldita
Dan, Starret's Foreman
Fugindo com o saque de um assalto milionário, o implacável Jack Bruhn e seu bando de renegados dominam um remoto povoado do Oeste que está ilhado pela nevasca. Entre os moradores tomados como reféns está o rancheiro Blaise Starrett, que resolve usar de astúcia para enfrentar o bando de assassinos e salvar a cidade - e a mulher que ama.
The Killers of Mussolini
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.
Al Capone
Johnny Torrio
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
A Flor Que Não Morreu
Don Panta
Um jovem idealista venezuelano foge de sua terra natal para escapar de uma revolução. Na esperança de encontrar a paz, ele vai para as montanhas e as florestas da Amazônia. Lá ele encontra Rima, a Garota dos Pássaros, uma órfã vivendo uma vida natural. É tudo um romance admirável contando uma história de 'Busca, Amor e Violência'. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Quanto Mais Quente Melhor
Little Bonaparte
Em 1929, Joe e Jerry, dois músicos desempregados, testemunham sem querer o cruel Massacre do Dia de São Valentim. Desesperados para não serem pegos pelos gangsters, eles se disfarçam de mulheres e entram para um grupo feminino musical, que está indo para Miami fazer shows. Joe se apaixona por Sugar, a garota problema do grupo, enquanto um milionário se apaixona pelo disfarce de Jerry, tudo isso em meio a uma convenção de criminosos, que também está acontecendo em Miami.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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.
O Rei da Zona
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.
Os Homens das Terras Bravas
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Os presidiários Peter Van Hook (Alan Ladd) e John McBain (Ernest Borgnine) ficam amigos na prisão. Soltos quase ao mesmo tempo, eles planejam dar um grande golpe juntos. Decididos a passar a perna no dono de uma rica mina de ouro, eles propõem um trato que não pretendem cumprir: 100 mil dólares em dinheiro vivo em troca de 200 mil dólares em ouro. O dono, que também pensava em passar a perna nos trapaceiros, aceita. Dirigida por Delmer Daves, "Os Homens das Terras Bravas" é um remake de "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950).
This Angry Age
Albert Legros
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
Street of Sinners
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.
Os Que Sabem Morrer
Sfc. Lewis
Na Coréia, em 6 de Setembro de 1950, o tenente de pelotão Benson encontra-se isolado em território controlado pelos inimigo depois de uma retirada. Logo eles se juntam ao sargento Montana, cuja preocupação primordial é cuidar de seu coronel catatônico. Benson e Montana não podem se ajudar, mas, juntos eles chegam com os sobreviventes na Colina 465, onde esperam encontrar o resto da divisão. É uma longa e angustiante marcha, repleta de todos os perigos que o inimigo evasivo pode provocar. Quem vai sobreviver?
Mayerling
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.
O Homem Errado
Eugene 'Gene' Conforti
Em Nova York, em janeiro de 1943, um músico (Henry Fonda) de uma casa noturna tem a vida remexida quando a mulher (Vera Miles) precisa de 300 dólares para tratamento dentário e ele vai a um escritório, para saber quanto pode conseguir de empréstimo com a apólice da sua mulher. Porém, ele é identificado erradamente pelas funcionárias como sendo o assaltante que tinha roubado o local um ano antes.
The Wild Party
Kicks Johnson
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.
A Trágica Farsa
Leo
O desempregado jornalista desportivo Eddie Willis, é contratado pelo promotor de luta corrupto Nick Benko para promover seu atual protegido, um boxeador argentino desconhecido chamado Toro Moreno. Embora Moreno seja um gigante, suas chances de sucesso são prejudicadas por um soco fraco e um queixo de vidro. Explorando a reputação de Willis para melhorar sua posição na comunidade do boxe, Benko organiza uma série de lutas arranjadas que impulsionam o ingênuo Moreno a lutador número 1 para o campeonato. O campeão reinante, o sádico Buddy Brannen, guarda ressentimento pela publicidade que Toro recebeu e promete puni-lo violentamente no ringue. Eddie agora deve decidir se deve ou não contar ao ingênuo Toro a verdade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
The Thief
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.
Sindicato de Ladrões
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Terry Malloy sonha com as glórias do boxe, mas foi convencido pelo corrupto mafioso Johnny Friendly, para quem trabalha, a perder uma luta. Quando Terry presencia um assassinato cometido pelos capangas do chefe, ele se sente responsável pelo crime.
Marty
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.