Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

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

Смерть : 2022-04-05

История

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.

Профиль

Nehemiah Persoff

Фильмы

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: Driven to Stardom
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.
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.
Американская история 4: Загадка ночи
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Свирепое чудовище, охотящееся за мышами, наводит ужас на всех грызунов Манхэттена и преследует бедного Фивела в кошмарных снах. Вместе с мышью-репортером Фивел и его друзья пускаются в головокружительную погоню за «сенсацией века», чтобы увидеть «монстра» своими глазами!
Американская история 3: Сокровища острова Манхэттен
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Действие фильма происходит в историческом «плавильном котле» — Нью-Йорке XIX века, где Фивел и семейство Мышкевичей изо всех сил борются за то, чтобы воплотить свою «американскую мечту». Но однажды таинственная карта сокровищ приводит Фивела и его друзей за стены города, в загадочный мир мышей — уроженцев Америки, и здесь он находит нечто еще более драгоценное, чем золото и украшения!
Американская история 2: Фивел едет на Запад
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Коварный кот Кэт Р. Воул заманивает нашего героя на запад, где тот объединяет свои усилия со знаменитым псом Уайли Берпом в борьбе против зловещего заговора, цель которого — сделать из ничего не подозревающих мышей-поселенцев… гамбургеры!
Близнецы
Mitchell Traven
Неожиданный оборот принимает генетический эксперимент, во время которого новорождённых близнецов, которые, кстати, совершенно непохожи друг на друга, разлучают на долгие годы. Но несчастные братья наконец встречаются... Джулиус, образованный, но совершенно не знающий жизни гигант с добрым сердцем и Винсент, коротышка с неистребимой жаждой денег и женщин. В компании подружек и преследующего их наёмного убийцы братья отправляются в путешествие по стране на поиски своей матери — но в конце концов находят гораздо большее. Только мать может сказать им правду.
Последнее искушение Христа
Rabbi
История Сына человеческого увидена через цепь искушений, ловушек, развилок. Ее двигает экстатический страх, и смотришь его с тяжелым чувством, потому что это триллер веры. Скорсезе изображает последователей Иисуса совершенно земными. Они желали революции, а Он принял Распятие, пошел на крест и вверг их надежды на земное царство в прах, и уподобил их земное существование праху. Но последующая развилка невероятно мощна: Распятый на кресте освобожден от миссии, у него будет свадьба, дом, дети, дорога от объятий к объятиям, от сына к сыну, возделываемый сад.
Американская история
Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
Фильм повествует об удивительных приключениях маленького отважного мышонка по имени Фивел. Корабль, на котором он отправился в путешествие из России в Америку на рубеже 19 и 20 веков, был застигнут страшным штормом, и Фивел оказался один в открытом море. Волны вынесли его на берег в Нью-Йоркском порту. Фивел смело отправляется на поиски своей семьи навстречу опасностям и захватывающим приключениям в новом, незнакомом мире.
Йентл
Rebbe Mendel
Действие разворачивается в Восточной Европе в начале ХХ столетия. Еврейская девушка переодевается в мужскую одежду, чтобы осуществить свою мечту - получить образование.
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.
Deadly Harvest
Mort Logan
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
Путешествие отверженных
Herr Hauser
Траурная мелодрама, заполненная знакомыми именами кинозвезд, которые раскрывают свои характеры, завязанные в сюжете о корабле, вывозящем евреев из Нацистской Германии.
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
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.
Сова появляется днем
Pizzuco
Действие фильма происходит в небольшом сицилийском городке. Капитан полиции, расследуя убийство руководителя строительной компании, обнаруживает, что все, кого он допрашивает, не хотят ничего говорить. Он приходит к выводу, что за убийством стоит депутат, он же – глава местной мафии.
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.
Как же много этих воров!
Georgi
Когда выкопали некоторые бесценные сокровища Македонии, то прибывает адвокат Фальк, чтобы разобраться в сути дела. Он проводит много времени, избегая от более плохих парней, чем в среднем фильме, но это потому, что это всего лишь два эпизода его телевизионного шоу «Испытания О'Брайена», отредактированы вместе в быстро собирающиеся в кинотеатры. На пути складывается много мертвых тел, с небольшим волнением в пути.
Величайшая из когда-либо рассказанных историй
Shemiah
Одна из лучших экранизаций Нового Завета, в которой канонически представлена жизнь Иисуса Христа со дня поклонения волхвов до распятия и воскрешения. Эта крупномасштабная кинокартина стала заметным явлением мирового кинематографа благодаря грандиозному ансамблю актеров и цельному отношению режиссера к историческому материалу, по которому был поставлен фильм.
Судьба-охотник
Ben Sawyer
Через пять минут после взлета в аэропорту Лос-Анджелеса разбивается авиалайнер с пятьюдесятью тремя пассажирами на борту. Выживает одна стюардесса. Сразу же появляется множество версий причин авиакатастрофы: от техногенных до возможной диверсии. Позиция самого авиаперевозчика — пилот Джек Сэвидж был пьян. Однако такая «официальная» версия совсем не устраивает Сэма МакБейна. В военное время МакБейн был вторым пилотом у Сэвиджа, а теперь сменил штурвал самолета на руководящую работу в авиакомпании. Несмотря на то, что в последнее время у них с Сэвиджом были непростые отношения, МакБейн решает доказать всем, что Джек не виновен,…. в ущерб собственному повышению по службе.
Большое дело
Under Secretary Segura
Холостой сотрудник расположенного в Нью-Йорке здания ООН становится опекуном брошенного кем-то в здании младенца. Теперь ему необходимо определить будущую нацию обнаруженного на международной территории ребенка. Помочь ему принять «верное» решение (или окончательно сбить с толку) пытаются одна за другой, возникающие на пороге его дома, женщины различных национальностей, каждая из которых пытается убедить его выбрать именно ее страну
The Hook
Capt. Van Ryn
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Команчерос
Graile
Поймав обвиняемого в убийстве авантюриста Пола Регрета, техасский рейнджер Каттер и не подозревал, что вскоре ему придётся объединиться с арестованным, чтобы обезвредить банду «Команчерос», занимающуюся контрабандой оружия.
The Big Show
Bruno Everard
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
День преступника
Dan, Starret's Foreman
В небольшом унылом и заснеженном городке на Диком Западе, где-то в штате Вайоминг прошлого века, жизнь далека от идиллии. Мало того, что местные ранчеры враждуют между собой, так ещё поселение захватывает банда головорезов, под руководством жестокого ветерана Гражданской войны, бывшего армейского капитана Джека Бруна. Единственной надеждой жителей становится суровый и внешне столь же грозный, как и бандиты, ранчер Блейз Старрет...
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.
Аль Капоне
Johnny Torrio
Время, когда Аль Капоне появился в Чикаго и начал работать вышибалой в заведении своего дяди Торрио, называли «веком джаза», годами «сухого закона». Очень быстро Капоне вошел в число пяти «владельцев» города, которые поделили Чикаго на сферы влияния и начали распоряжаться всем — от выборов мэра до продажи жевательной резинки…
Зеленые поместья
Don Panta
Абель, сын убитого правительственного чиновника, убегает в джунгли. Там он встречается с воинственными индейцами и с прелестной девушкой…
В джазе только девушки
Little Bonaparte
Когда чикагские музыканты Джо и Джерри случайно становятся свидетелями бандитской перестрелки, они в срочном порядке смываются на поезде во Флориду, прикинувшись женщинами. Теперь они — Джозефина и Дафна, новенькие и хорошенькие инструменталистки женского джаз — банда. До поры до времени их маскировка срабатывает. Но вскоре любвеобильная солистка «западает» на переодетую мужчиной Джозефину, престарелый плейбой влюбляется в Дафну, а босс мафии, разгадав тайну маскарада, решает срочно разделаться со свидетелями…
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.
Never Steal Anything Small
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.
The Badlanders
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.
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.
Men in War
Sfc. Lewis
In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.
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.
Не тот человек
Eugene 'Gene' Conforti
Генри Фонда играет музыканта Мэнни Балестреро, человека, переполненного скрытой яростью из-за своего ошибочного ареста. Вера Майлз, в роли его подавленной горем жены Роуз, которую суровые испытания доводят до сумасшествия.
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.
Тем тяжелее падение
Leo
Спортивный журналист Эдди Виллис вращается в мире профессионального бокса и становится, как сейчас говорят, «пиарщиком» начинающего боксера. Проработав 17 лет в газете и не заработав ничего на «черный» день, он соглашается вести грязную «раскрутку» бездарного, слабого боксера внушительной внешности и роста. «Бокс — это балет, шоу, на котором делают деньги», — так говорит ему полукриминальный промоутер Род Стайгер, — но ведь в балете не убивают в раздевалке танцоров, отказывающихся танцевать. Только сейчас Эдди понимает всю подноготную этого безжалостного мира, где менеджеры жестоко и без всяких сантиментов манипулируют своими боксерами. Хватит ли у него силы воли восстать против хорошо отлаженной машины криминального бизнеса?
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.
В порту
Cab Driver (uncredited)
В центре сюжета судьба простого докера — Терри Мэллоу, терзающегося сомнениями и решающего встать на путь восстановления справедливости, после того как выясняется, что он работает на настоящего гангстера — коррумпированного босса портовых докеров Джонни Фрэндли.
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.