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An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

2005
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1998
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1991
An American Tail

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

1986
St. Helens

as Mr. Ellison

1982
Deadly Harvest

as Mort Logan

1977
Voyage of the Damned

as Herr Hauser

1976
Psychic Killer

as Doctor Gubner

1975
The Stranger Within

as Dr. Edward Klein

1974
Red Sky at Morning

as Amadeo Montoya

1971
Panic in the City

as August Best

1968
The Money Jungle

as Lt. Dow Reeves

1968
Fate Is the Hunter

as Ben Sawyer

1964
The Hook

as Capt. Van Ryn

1963
The Comancheros

as Graile

1961
Some Like It Hot

as Little Bonaparte

1959
Day of the Outlaw

as Dan, Starret's Foreman

1959
Al Capone

as Johnny Torrio

1959
Green Mansions

as Don Panta

1959
The Badlanders

as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)

1958
Men in War

as Sgt. Lewis

1957
The Wild Party

as Kicks Johnson

1956
Nehemiah Persoff Nehemiah Persoff

Birthday

1919-08-02

Place of Birth

Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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