Nehemiah Persoff

Nehemiah Persoff

Date of Birth: 02 Aug 1919

Country: Israel

Total Credits at Criticker: 45 (Actor)

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    Some Like It Hot
    When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in (imdb)
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    Twins
    A physically perfect, but innocent, man goes in search of his twin brother, who is a short small-time crook.
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    An American Tail
    While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets seperated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country. (imdb)
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    The Wrong Man
    True story of an innocent man mistaken for a criminal. (imdb)
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    Yentl
    In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days... (imdb)
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    The Hook
    The Hook is a long look at war from the initiation of hostilities to the victorious end. It's set in the Korean War, but an opening title gives an explanation: this is an example, and the subject is "men in war" not "men at war". The casus belli and the postwar consequences are nowhere discussed. (cmulrooney.tripod.com)
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    The Naked City
    Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment and homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie... The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. All filmed on location. (imdb)
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    The Badlanders
    Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. (imdb)
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    The Harder They Fall
    Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protege, an unknown Argentinian named Toro Moreno... (imdb)
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    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
    Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace... (imdb)
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    The Philco Television Playhouse
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    The Comancheros
    Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. (imdb)
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    Men in War
    Circumstance throws together Lieutenant Benson and his platoon with Sergeant Montana and the shell-shocked colonel in his keep during the Korean War. The group must make it fifteen miles through enemy territory in hopes of finding friendly ground on Hill 465.
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    Day of the Outlaw
    Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn, decide to spend the night in a little Western town. (imdb)
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    Green Mansions
    A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature. It is all an admirable romance telling a tale of "quest, love, and violence." (imdb)
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    Al Capone
    This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era. (imdb)
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    Psychic Killer
    Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths. (imdb)
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    The Power
    A man slowly realizes two things: that he has telekinesis - the power to move things with the power of his mind alone - and that another man who shares this power wants to kill him. (imdb)
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    Mafia
    Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself. (Answers.com)
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    Fate Is the Hunter
    A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. (imdb)
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    A Global Affair
    As an employee at the United Nations building in New York City, Bob Hope finds himself in charge of an infant abandoned at the UN. Besides being a bachelor trying to cope with an infant, he must determine which nationality the baby is to have since he was abandoned on international territory. Women from several countries appear at his doorstep trying to tempt him and to get him to choose their country. (imdb)
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    Never Steal Anything Small
    Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues Linda, and pins a grand larceny rap on Dan. And all set to music! (imdb)
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    Panic in the City
    An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it. (imdb)
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    Mrs. Pollifax-Spy
    Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as plan, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albania prison. (imdb)
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    The Stranger Within
    An expectant mother begins acting strangely and doesn't know why. Gradually she starts to realize that her bizarre behavior is being controlled by her unborn baby. (imdb)
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    The Henderson Monster
    A famous scientist, while performing experiments involving DNA, accidentally creates a monster. (imdb)
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    The People Next Door
    Attempting to cash-in on the generation gap phenomenon, "The People Next Door" purports to be an expose of the of the typical modern American family. The dark underbelly behind the hypocritical facade is revealed. Mom and dad find their virginal teen daughter tripping in her closet and running away to be with her biker boyfriend. The neighbor's wife is a total boozer and their Ivy league-bound son is the local pill pusher. "Who are The People Next Door? They are you, they are me." (imdb)
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    In Search of Historic Jesus
    The mystery of the Shroud of Turin is examined in this docudrama. (TCM)
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    The Big Show
    A colorful circus spectacular finds a rich American girl (Esther Williams) falling for the man on the flying trapeze (Cliff Robertson). His brother (Robert Vaughn) plots revenge against his father, a hard driving old world sadist who pushes the family to greater and more dangerous aerial acts. (allrovi.com)
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    Deadly Harvest
    Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine. (imdb)
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    Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
    The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned. (imdb)
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    Sadat
    Sadat (1983) - TV Movie
    The dramatization of the life of Egyptian leader Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, from his early years as a young officer fighting the British to his assassination in 1981.
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    Escape to Mindanao
    Two P.O.W. survivors of Bataan seeing a Japanese plane crash, somehow get their hands on a Japanese code machine. They then escape in search of their army.
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    O\
    Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara (Asner) is devastated when his wife (Hartley) dies suddenly. She returns to "haunt" him, however, (a la "Topper") and her mission is to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and renew relationships with his two grown children (Foster and Lang.)
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    An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
    In the historic melting pot of 19th century New York City, Fievel and the Mousekewitz family are struggling to make their American dream come true. But when a mysterious treasure map leads Fievel and his friends to a secret world of Native American mice living beneath the city, he finds something even more precious than gold and jewels! (imdb)
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    The Word
    The Word (1978) - TV Mini-Series
    A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to publicize this document as a new version of the Bible, but he finds himself enmeshed in controversy and intrigue.
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    Columbo
    Columbo (1971) - TV Series
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    F.D.R.: The Last Year
    In 1944, despite declining health, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jason Robards) decides to run for a fourth presidential term while World War II begins to draw to a close. This account of his final year follows the president's involvement in D-Day planning and his meetings with Joseph Stalin (Nehemiah Persoff) and Winston Churchill (Wensley Pithey).
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    Too Many Thieves
    A New York lawyer acts as go-between for the return of a stolen Macedonian relic.
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    An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
    Fievel helps a reporter solve the monster mystery as she inspires him to overcome his fears.
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    Lieutenant Schuster\
    After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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    The Time Tunnel
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    The Sex Symbol
    A thinly disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributes to her deteriorating career. (imdb)
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