Highest rated movie: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Lowest rated movie: Deadly Harvest (1977)
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Movies starring Nehemiah Persoff have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
Some Like It Hot - released in 1959 - is Nehemiah Persoff's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 749 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Nehemiah Persoff is Deadly Harvest - released in 1977 - with a score of 45% based on 3 reviews.
Nehemiah Persoff (born August 2, 1919) is 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. Now retired from acting, he is devoted full-time to his painting.
Nehemiah Persoff has acted in films with Max von Sydow, John Wayne, Martin Balsam and Rod Steiger.
Nehemiah Persoff has worked with these film directors: Martin Scorsese, Barbra Streisand, Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz.
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