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Acting

Nehemiah Persoff

Career: Active from 1955 to 1999, busiest in 1959 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 13
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Some Like It Hot
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 109 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Nehemiah Persoff Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.9, average 5.4
Cringe Humor
1.1, average 2.2
Dark Humor
1.9, average 2.8
Psychological
4.7, average 5.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 5
Historical Setting 3
Character-Driven 3
Moral Dilemma 2
Bleak Realism 2
Political Corruption 2
Moral Conflict 2
Hopeful Journey 2
Classic Animation 2
Psychological Tension 2
Slow Burn 2
Classic Western 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

167

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 86

Angels in America

86

TV show · as Rabbi (uncredited)

1990s

5 titles · average score 63

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

54

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

52

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

Chicago Hope

73

TV show · as Rabbi Ben Taubler

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

61

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

Law & Order

74

TV show · as David Steinmetz

1980s

23 titles · average score 66

Doogie Howser, M.D.

43

TV show · as Max Wernick

Star Trek: The Next Generation

79

TV show · as Toff

An American Tail

63

as Papa Mousekewitz (voice)

L.A. Law

77

TV show · as Rabbi Isadore Glickman

MacGyver

77

TV show · as Sam Bolinski

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Constantin Stavros

Highway to Heaven

73

TV show

Hunter

70

TV show · as Harold Goodman

Yentl

70

as Rebbe Mendel

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

46

TV show

Hotel

65

TV show

Magnum, P.I.

82

TV show · as Rabbi Asher Solomon

1970s

52 titles · average score 62

A Cry for Justice

as Dr. Burke

In Search of Historic Jesus

as Herod Antipas

Supertrain

50

TV show · as Max

Deadly Harvest

43

as Mort Logan

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

as Rudenko

Charlie's Angels

44

TV show · as Anton

Quincy, M.E.

74

TV show

Barney Miller

52

TV show · as Carl Simms / Yacov Berger

Little House on the Prairie

82

TV show · as Mr. Olaf Lundstrom

The Six Million Dollar Man

71

TV show · as Major Popov

Columbo

83

TV show · as Jesse Jerome

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

52

as Berisha

1960s

47 titles · average score 63

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Cordell / Leo Paoli

Escape to Mindanao

as Capt. Kramer

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

TV show · as Captain Malcione

The Day of the Owl

73

as Pizzuco

Adam-12

74

TV show · as Angelo Covelli

Mannix

71

TV show · as Anton Wojeska

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as Igor Stravos / Prince Iben Kostas

The Wild Wild West

64

TV show · as Major Hazard / Gen. Andreas Cassinello

Fate Is the Hunter

53

as Ben Sawyer

The Hook

56

as Capt. Van Ryn

The Comancheros

66

as Graile

The Big Show

as Bruno Everard

1950s

38 titles · average score 71

Some Like It Hot

90

as Little Bonaparte

Green Mansions

46

as Don Panta

Day of the Outlaw

85

as Dan, Starret's Foreman

Al Capone

63

as Johnny Torrio

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Carl Lanser

The Killers of Mussolini

as Benito Mussolini

The Badlanders

54

as Vincente (The Powder Monkey)

Street of Sinners

67

as Leon

Men in War

79

as Sgt. Lewis

Wagon Train

71

TV show · as Tiburcio Mendez

The Thief

as D'Arnault-Olivier

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Ralph Collins / Jeff Jensen

1940s

1 title

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show · as Ed Kagan