Still of Nehemiah Persoff in Naked City (1958)
Caption: Still of Nehemiah Persoff in Naked City (1958)
Actor, Soundtrack, Music Department
Born: August 2, 1919
Star sign: Leo
Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Known for: Some Like It Hot (1959), An American Tail (1986), Twins (1988), Yentl (1983)
Source: IMDB
Born in 1919 (some sources say 1920) in Jerusalem, Nehemiah Persoff immigrated with his family to America in 1929. Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction of his life. He joined amateur groups and ...