Actor Nehemiah Persoff passed away on April 5th of heart failure. He was 102. His wife of 70 years, Thia, passed away in February 2021 and no doubt diminished his will to carry on any longer.
An inaugural member of The Actors' Studio, Persoff appeared in movies such as On The Waterfront, Some Like It Hot, The Comancheros, Voyage of the Damned, Yentl as his well voice in the American Tail animated films.
I remember him best from TV shows like The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Six Million Dollar Man and Columbo where he typically played villains. Persoff's other TV credits include The Untouchables, Gilligan's Island, Naked City, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Wild, Wild West and Mannix.
After playing a rabbi in Yentl with Barbra Streisand, the Jerusalem born Persoff was cast as a rabbi in Magnum, P.I., The Last Temptation of Christ, L.A. Law, and Chicago Hope.
Persoff retired from acting in 1999 at the age of 80 to concentrate on painting. He lived a long, wonderful life. We should all be so lucky. R.I.P.
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