Nehemiah Persoff

Acting

Born: 1919-08-02 · Jerusalem, Palestine Mandate

Nehemiah Persoff was an American film and television actor. Persoff emigrated with his family from Palestine to the United States in 1929. He began to take an interest in acting in the 1940s, and after serving in the Army during World War II, he began to pursue his acting career in the New York Thea…