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 | | Subject: Nehemiah Persoff 1919-2022 Thu Apr 07, 2022 5:05 am | |
| Nehemiah Persoff, Actor in ‘Some Like It Hot,’ ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘Yentl,’ Dies at 102. He played Peter Lundstrom's father on "The Stranger" - Little House on The Prairie. 1978.Nehemiah Persoff, a charter member of the Actors Studio who appeared in dozens of notable films and TV shows, from Some Like It Hot and On the Waterfront to The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables, has died. He was 102. Persoff died Tuesday night at an acute care facility in San Luis Obispo, California, his son Dan told The Hollywood Reporter. The prolific character actor also portrayed Henry Fonda’s brother-in-law in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man (1956), Humphrey Bogart’s partner in the boxing business in The Harder They Fall (1957), the ruthless chieftain Graile in Michael Curtiz’s The Comancheros (1961), an eccentric physicist in The Power (1968) and a poverty-stricken Jew trying to flee Hitler in Voyage of the Damned (1976).   " The Stranger" LHOTP 1978 "Albert, do you REALLY think you are old enough to know what love is?"
"I must be Pa. I love you, I have for a long time." | |
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