# RIP Nehemiah Persoff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [April 7, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478 "2022-04-07T20:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/1 "2022-04-07T20:35:25Z")
> **[Nehemiah Persoff, Actor in ‘Some Like It Hot,’ ‘On the Waterfront’ and...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nehemiah-persoff-dead-some-like-it-hot-yentl-1235126111/)** > > He worked on Broadway opposite Boris Karloff and did lots of television, with turns on 'The Twilight Zone,' 'The Untouchables' and 'Gilligan's Island.' I’ll always think of him as the U-Boat commander in The Twilight Zone episode ‘Judgement Night’. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/2 "2022-04-08T04:36:56Z")
What a character actor. He was in so much. And I still don’t know how to pronounce his name. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/3 "2022-04-08T07:10:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Nehemiah Persoff Dead: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Actor Was 102 – The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nehemiah-persoff-dead-some-like-it-hot-yentl-1235126111/) > > I’ll always think of him as the U-Boat commander in The Twilight Zone episode ‘Judgement Night’. Jake Guzik in _ **The Untouchables** _! RIP. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/4 "2022-04-08T07:23:56Z")
I think it was in Tony Curtis’s autobiography where I read the part of Little Bonaparte in _ **Some Like It Hot** _ was originally going to be played by Edward G Robinson. Robinson refused to be in the film, however, because George Raft was in it too. The two men hated each other after doing a picture together and swore never to work together again. Persoff was eventually cast instead. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/5 "2022-04-08T13:24:10Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And I still don’t know how to pronounce his name. nee-uh- **mai** -uh. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/6 "2022-04-08T14:03:27Z")
I just saw him in an episode of “Mission Impossible” and was amazed to see that he was still alive. My older sister dated his son or nephew or something. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/7 "2022-04-08T15:12:11Z")
Believe it or not, I was just thinking of him the other day. He was in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation - the one where Data is kidnapped by an art collector. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478/8 "2022-04-08T15:26:25Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Believe it or not, I was just thinking of him the other day. I was thinking about him a couple/few weeks ago. I think there was a featurette about him on TCM, and I was like ‘Oh, Nehemiah Persoff! It’s amazing he’s over 100 years old.’