Nehemiah Persoff died on April 5, 2022 at the age of 102. The face of many golden age series such as “The Incorruptibles”, “The Mysteries of the West” or “The Fourth Dimension”, he had appeared in “The False Guilty” or “Some like it hot”.
Nehemiah Persoff was a familiar face to 60s and 70s series fans. He had a storied career on the small screen, including roles in The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, and Mysteries of the West (sometimes with multiple appearances per series). and in different roles).
One of the first roles of Nehemiah Persoff is that of a taxi driver in the On the Quays cult, in 1954. Thereafter, the American actor worked for the greatest, from Alfred Hitchcock (The False Guilty) to Anthony Mann (Côte 465) passing by Michael Curtiz (The Comancheros).
But it was in front of Billy Wilder’s camera that he got his biggest role, that of the mob boss in Some Like It Hot.
Nehemiah Persoff would play much later in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and in the comedy Twins alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
Born on August 2, 1919, he died on Tuesday April 5, 2022 at the canonical age of 102, announced variety.
The “Twins” scene between Scwharzy and Nehemiah Persoff: