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- Nehemiah Persoff as Graile in The Comancheros (1961)
We have a society here, a society that's different from anything visualised by people anywhere in the world. The rules of this society are magnificently simple. Transgress and you die. Long and painfully...He stole. We, a society of thieves, cannot tolerate stealing from each other.
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).
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).
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