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'...
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Some Like It Hot
As Little Bonaparte
For Whom the Bell Tolls
As Pablo
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
As Captain Malcione
Yentl
As Rebbe Mendel
The Greatest Story Ever Told
As Shemiah
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
As Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
An American Tail
As Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Comancheros
As Graile
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
As Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Wrong Man
As Gene Conforti
Twins
As Mitchell Traven
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
As Papa Mousekewitz (voice)
The Harder They Fall
As Leo
Al Capone
As Johnny Torrio
Day of the Outlaw
As Dan, Starret's Foreman
Men in War
As Sgt. Lewis
The Last Temptation of Christ
As Rabbi
The Power
As Prof. Carl Melnicker
Escape to Mindanao
As Capt. Kramer
Green Mansions
As Don Panta
Psychic Killer
As Doctor Gubner
Deadly Harvest
As Mort Logan
Fate Is the Hunter
As Ben Sawyer
The People Next Door
As Dr. Salazar
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
As Lieutenant Crawford
A Global Affair
As Under Secretary Segura
Street of Sinners
As Leon
The Wild Party
As Kicks Johnson
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
As Skoda
The Sex Symbol
As Nick Fortis
The Henderson Monster
As Prof. Leo Tedeschi
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
As Berisha
The Big Show
As Bruno Everard
The Hook
As Capt. Van Ryn
Never Steal Anything Small
As Pinelli
On the Waterfront
As Cab Driver (uncredited)
Panic in the City
As August Best
The Death of Manolete
As Camera
This Angry Age
As Albert Legros
In Search of Historic Jesus
As Herod Antipas
The Making of a President
The Badlanders
As Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Killing Stone
As Earl Stone
4 Faces
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
As Self - Interviewee
Too Many Thieves
As Georgi
The Money Jungle
As Lt. Dow Reeves
F.D.R.: The Last Year
As Josef Stalin
The Rebels
As Baron Von Steuben
Red Sky at Morning
As Amadeo Montoya
Lapin 360
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
As Rudenko
The Rag Jungle
As Leonard Brill
Voyage of the Damned
As Herr Hauser
The Stranger Within
As Dr. Edward Klein
A Cry For Justice
As Dr. Burke
Daniel in the Lions' Den
As Malimar
Dracula
As Dr. Van Helsing
The Day of the Owl
As Pizzuco
O'Hara's Wife
As Dr. Fischer
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
As Charles Frohman
A Double Life
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
As Self
Mayerling
As Police Officer
Eric
As Dr. Duchesnes
Cutter's Trail
As Santillo
Turnover Smith
As Ashmed Amad
The Killers of Mussolini
As Benito Mussolini
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
As Artie Moreno
St. Helens
As Mr. Ellison
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
As Champagne Joe Carroll
The Thief
As D'Arnault-Olivier
Marty
As The Critic
Magnum, P.I.
Columbo
As Jesse Jerome
Burke's Law
As Jason Flonder
Star Trek: The Next Generation
As Toff
L.A. Law
As Rabbi Isadore Glickman
Little House on the Prairie
The Facts of Life
Mr. Lucky
Hawaii Five-O
As Harry Cardonus
Gilligan's Island
Quincy, M.E.
Route 66
Highway to Heaven
The Streets of San Francisco
Marcus Welby, M.D.
As Max Behrman
Baretta
Land of the Giants
As Titus
Naked City
As Barney Peters
Charlie's Angels
As Anton
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Hotel
MacGyver
As Sam Bolinski
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Mod Squad
The Bill Cosby Show
As Mr. Byron
Gunsmoke
As Jack Pinto
Wonder Woman
As Professor Moreno
Mission: Impossible
As Igor Stravos
Adam-12
As Angelo Covelli
Hunter
As Harold Goodman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As Dr. Duchesnes
The Twilight Zone
As Carl Lanser
Chicago Hope
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As Ralph Collins
Sam Benedict
Bus Stop
The Wild Wild West
Rawhide
As Domingo
Vega$
Police Story
The High Chaparral
As Homero José
The Chicago Teddy Bears
Search
McCloud
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
As Jules Dreise
Climax!
As Lieutenant Cal Nourse
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Big Valley
As General Vicente Ruiz
Armstrong Circle Theatre
The Word
As Abbot Petropolous
Tarzan
As Chembe Kunji
The Philco Television Playhouse
As Ed Kagan
Ben Casey
Ellery Queen
Mr. Novak
As Henry Selkirk
The New Breed
As Louis Morley
CBS Playhouse
Honey West
As Faustini
Playwrights '56
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Legend of Jesse James
As El Carnicero
Jericho
J.J. Starbuck
Logan's Run
The Bionic Woman
The United States Steel Hour
As Dr. Arnault / Oliver
B.A.D. Cats
The Wonderful World of Disney
As Artie Moreno
The Untouchables
As Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik
Purple Playhouse
As Dr. Van Helsing
The Name of the Game
As Ambassador
Battlestar Galactica
As Eastern Alliance Leader
Condominium
As Conlaw
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
As Charles Dietrich
The French Atlantic Affair
As Col. Schreiner
The Six Million Dollar Man
As Major Popov
Law & Order
As David Steinmetz
Playhouse 90
As Pablo
Hunter
As Sheik Farakbi
McMillan and Wife
As Clementa Habib
The Treasure of San Bosco Reef
As Captain Malcione
Mannix
As Anton Wojeska
Barney Miller
As Carl Simms
McNaughton's Daughter
As Vinnie Laine
The Time Tunnel
As Prof. Anton Biraki
Murder, She Wrote
As Constantin Stavros
It Takes a Thief
As Harry Lavender
The Invisible Man
As Dr. Leon Barnard
Dan August
As Leo Cussoni
Cool Million
As Karinakis