(JTA) — Very few actors, living or dead, could claim to have the career of Nehemiah Persoff ... As a self-proclaimed character actor, Persoff was adept at playing gangsters and other assorted ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When actor, painter and writer Nehemiah Persoff ... Persoff defines himself as a “character actor,” meaning that his role was generally to act as a foil to the (usually ...