Word: persoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They have brought Golden (Nehemiah Persoff) to Charlotte, N.C., introduced him around, and planted him in front of his typewriter. They festoon him with homely metaphors and Yiddish phrases and good, bad and indifferent jokes. They show him gradually, despite his embattled stand for integration, winning the hearts of all his white, Southern, Gentile neighbors. But in this game of hearts lurks a menacing queen of spades-the unsuspected fact that Golden had once served time in prison for mail fraud. It overhangs his life, until at last it breaks out in the headlines-only for all who know Harry...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The child star has grown into a storyteller with a special appeal for children. She starts her new series with All Baba and the 40 Thieves. Nehemiah Persoff plays...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff...
...written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael. But in a far too slowly paced production, it was only Pablo, the broken guerrilla leader, who became a really moving figure; as played by Nehemiah Persoff, the wreck of a once brave man had touches of real tragedy, and strangely, the coward's lines rang truer, more human than the surrounding heroics...
Impressed by his flair for the grand, vote-getting gesture, a dissident minority persuades the hero to give the big punk (Nehemiah Persoff) in the parent union a run for his expense money. But just before election time, the cops find out about those watches. So the jig's up? Nonsense. The election is won. What decent, self-respecting union man. the hero blandly wants to know, could deny his vote to a fellow who had stolen $750,000 from some great big impersonal insurance company, and then turned every last penny of it over to the working...