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Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career spanning 55 years. [1] His first acting role was as an extra in The Naked City (1948).
Nehemiah Persoff (1919-2022) was a versatile and prolific actor who played ethnic villains, gangsters, and Jewish characters in films, TV, and theater. He also voiced Papa Mousekewitz in An American Tail and painted watercolors in his later years.
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Apr 6, 2022 · April 6, 2022. Nehemiah Persoff, a ubiquitous character actor whose gravelly voice and knack for conveying an air of menace magnified his portrayals of a bevy of sinister types, most notably a...
Apr 6, 2022 · Nehemiah Persoff, a charter member of the Actors Studio who appeared in dozens of notable films and TV shows, from Some Like It Hot and On the Waterfront to The Twilight Zone and The...
Apr 6, 2022 · Nehemiah Persoff, a late-blooming actor who built one of the busiest careers in Hollywood, playing rogues, ringleaders, revolutionaries and refugees — among other memorable portraits of...
Apr 6, 2022 · Nehemiah Persoff, who played a cab driver in On The Waterfront and a rabbi in Yentl, died at 102. He was a prolific character actor in TV and film for five decades, appearing in shows like Gunsmoke, Star Trek and Angels in America.
Nehemiah Persoff was a versatile actor who played ethnic villains, gangsters, and Jewish characters in films, TV, and theater. He was born in Jerusalem in 1919, emigrated to America in 1929, and died in California in 2022.
