Akim Tamiroff
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1899-10-27 β 1972-09-17
Place of birth: Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
Biography
βFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff Β (Russian: ΠΠΊΠΈΠΌ ΠΠΈΡ Π°ΠΉΠ»ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ Π’Π°ΠΌΠΈΡΠΎΠ²; 29 October 1899 β 17 September 1972), Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia) was an Armenian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was born of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the US in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors and decided to stay. Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akim Tamiroff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Ocean's Eleven
1960Spyros Acebos
Touch of Evil
1958'Uncle' Joe Grandi
The Trial
1962Bloch
Topkapi
1964Gerven the Cook
Lord Jim
1965Schomberg
Alphaville
1965Henri Dickson
Don Quixote
1992Sancho Panza
The Black Tulip
1964Marquis de Vigogne
The Gangster
1947Nick Jammey
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943Pablo
The Black Sleep
1956Odo the Gypsy
The Great McGinty
1940The Boss
Five Graves to Cairo
1943Farid
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944The Boss
The Corsican Brothers
1941Baron Colonna
Union Pacific
1939Fiesta
Sadie McKee
1934Riccori
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957Colonel Peng
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935Otamanu