Happy 99th Birthday Nehemiah Persoff!!!
Aug 2, 2018 12:34:49 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 2, 2018 12:34:49 GMT
Happy 99th Birthday Nehemiah Persoff!!! 
Born on August 2, 1919 in Jerusalem, when it was Palestine
Thanks for everything,...retired since 1999
American character actor in movies and television, maybe best known nowdays for Little Bonaparte in Some Like it Hot 1959.
His family emigrated to the United States in 1929. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he worked as a subway electrician, maintaining signals while he began to pursue his acting career in the New York theater. In 1947, he was accepted into the Actors Studio and began his acting career in 1948.
His first uncredited role was as a "Smiling Man Departing Subway" in Jules Dassin's The Naked City 1948. His first credited movie roles came in 1956.
Some samples from his career:
The Harder They Fall 1956 lobby card, with Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger
The Wrong Man 1956, with Henry Fonda and Vera Miles
Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot 1959
The Twilight Zone episode Judgment Night 1959
The Comancheros 1961
Fate is the Hunter 1964, with John Hubbard and Glenn Ford.
aka Il giorno della civetta aka The Day of the Owl 1968
Voyage of the Damned 1976, with Maria Schell
Little House on the Prairie episode The Stranger 1978, with Michael Sharrett
Yentl 1983, with Barbra Streisand
Voice acting as Papa Mousekewitz (with violin) in An American Tail 1986, and it's sequels, the last in 1999.
Twins 1988
Nehemiah Persoff has acted, voice acted in over 200 movies and television productions.
After retirement, he took up painting:
Born on August 2, 1919 in Jerusalem, when it was Palestine
Thanks for everything,...retired since 1999
American character actor in movies and television, maybe best known nowdays for Little Bonaparte in Some Like it Hot 1959.
His family emigrated to the United States in 1929. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he worked as a subway electrician, maintaining signals while he began to pursue his acting career in the New York theater. In 1947, he was accepted into the Actors Studio and began his acting career in 1948.
His first uncredited role was as a "Smiling Man Departing Subway" in Jules Dassin's The Naked City 1948. His first credited movie roles came in 1956.
Some samples from his career:
The Harder They Fall 1956 lobby card, with Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger
The Wrong Man 1956, with Henry Fonda and Vera Miles
Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot 1959
The Twilight Zone episode Judgment Night 1959
The Comancheros 1961
Fate is the Hunter 1964, with John Hubbard and Glenn Ford.
aka Il giorno della civetta aka The Day of the Owl 1968
Voyage of the Damned 1976, with Maria Schell
Little House on the Prairie episode The Stranger 1978, with Michael Sharrett
Yentl 1983, with Barbra Streisand
Voice acting as Papa Mousekewitz (with violin) in An American Tail 1986, and it's sequels, the last in 1999.
Twins 1988
Nehemiah Persoff has acted, voice acted in over 200 movies and television productions.
After retirement, he took up painting:
*this is supposed to be tears of joy* We need that emoticon on here.