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Nehemiah Persoff

1919 - 2022

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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.His first acting role was as an extra in The Naked City (1948). Persoff is best known for roles as Leo in The Harder They Fall (1956), as Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot (1959), as Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik in The Untouchables (1959–1963), as Rebbe Mendel in Yentl (1983), and as the voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the animated film An American Tail (1986) and its sequels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nehemiah Persoff has received more than 1,371,575 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nehemiah Persoff is the 3,902nd most popular actor (down from 3,590th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Israel (down from 226th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Israeli Actor.

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  • 3.90

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Nehemiah Persoff ranks 3,902 out of 9,996Before him are Frankie Avalon, Inna Makarova, R. G. Armstrong, Henry Travers, Sylvester Groth, and Viviane Romance. After him are O. E. Hasse, Halit Akçatepe, Akira Terao, Joachim Fuchsberger, Gerald McRaney, and George Eads.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Nehemiah Persoff ranks 214Before him are Nilla Pizzi, Isaak Khalatnikov, Richard Todd, Ladislav Mňačko, Maurice Boitel, and Antonio Pietrangeli. After him are Helen Walton, Gottfried Dienst, Kim Ki-young, Nina Dumbadze, Margot Hielscher, and Gayatri Devi. Among people deceased in 2022, Nehemiah Persoff ranks 275Before him are Barbara Walters, Vic Elford, Bob Falkenburg, Gilbert Gottfried, Kenneth Welsh, and Rustam Ibragimbekov. After him are Karol Divín, Nélida Piñon, Greg Bear, Robert Blust, Henk Groot, and Yoko Shimada.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Nehemiah Persoff ranks 242 out of 430Before him are Israel Finkelstein (1949), Hiam Abbass (1960), Etgar Keret (1967), Ayelet Zurer (1969), Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938), and Oded Fehr (1970). After him are Ilan Pappé (1954), Azmi Bishara (1956), Armand Amar (1953), Yossi Benayoun (1980), Tom Segev (1945), and Joan of Acre (1272).

Among ACTORS In Israel

Among actors born in Israel, Nehemiah Persoff ranks 11Before him are Daliah Lavi (1942), Yvan Attal (1965), Gila Almagor (1939), Hiam Abbass (1960), Ayelet Zurer (1969), and Oded Fehr (1970). After him are Ronit Elkabetz (1964), Mili Avital (1972), Juliano Mer-Khamis (1958), Hana Laszlo (1953), Inbar Lavi (1986), and Brian George (1952).

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