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Nehemiah Persoff Movies

Want to know the best Nehemiah Persoff movies?  How about the worst Nehemiah Persoff movies?  Curious about Nehemiah Persoff box office grosses or which Nehemiah Persoff movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Nehemiah Persoff movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Nehemiah Persoff (1919-) is an American retired actor and painter. Persoff appeared in more than 200 television series, films and plays in a 52-year career.  His IMDb page shows 203 acting credits from 1948 to 2003. This page will rank Nehemiah Persoff movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.  Some of his movies that do not appear to have been in North American theaters were not included. 

Nehemiah Persoff Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year Movie (Year) Rating S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1954 On the Waterfront (1954)
AA Best Picture Win
1959 Some Like It Hot (1959)
1983 Yentl (1983)
1986 An American Tail (1986)
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
1988 Twins (1988)
1959 Al Capone (1959)
1956 The Harder They Fall (1956)
1961 The Comancheros (1961)
1957 Men in War (1957)
1956 The Wrong Man (1956)
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
1964 Fate Is The Hunter (1964)
1959 Day of the Outlaw (1959)
1976 Voyage of the Damned (1976)
1956 The Wild Party (1956)
1971 Red Sky At Morning (1971)
1959 Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
1958 The Badlanders (1958)
1991 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
1963 The Hook (1963)
1957 This Angry Age/The Sea Wall (1957)
1970 The People Next Door (1970)
1961 The Big Show (1961)
1959 Green Mansions (1959)
2001 4 Faces (2001)
1981 St. Helens (1981)
1964 A Global Affair (1964)
1977 Deadly Harvest (1977)
1971 Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)
1982 O'Hara's Wife (1982)

Nehemiah Persoff Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Nehemiah Persoff movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Nehemiah Persoff movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Nehemiah Persoff movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Nehemiah Persoff movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Nehemiah Persoff movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Nehemiah Persoff movie won.
  • Sort Nehemiah Persoff movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1 On the Waterfront (1954)
AA Best Picture Win
Marlon Brando &
Karl Malden
12.00 326.1 326.10 20 92 12 / 08 100.0
2 Some Like It Hot (1959) Tony Curtis &
Jack Lemmon
23.20 483.8 483.80 5 93 06 / 01 99.5
3 Yentl (1983) Barbra Streisand 56.20 223.1 223.10 15 67 05 / 01 95.0
4 An American Tail (1986) Christopher Plummer &
Dom Deluise
72.40 243.8 243.80 9 60 01 / 00 91.4
6 The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Charlton Heston &
Claude Rains
18.80 230.6 333.40 11 50 05 / 00 89.0
5 Twins (1988) Arnold Schwarzenegger &
Danny DeVito
111.90 340.4 658.80 5 50 00 / 00 87.7
8 Al Capone (1959) Rod Steiger &
Martin Balsam
7.10 148.8 148.80 36 65 00 / 00 87.0
7 The Harder They Fall (1956) Humphrey Bogart &
Boxing Movies
3.90 87.7 87.70 90 81 01 / 00 86.2
10 The Comancheros (1961) John Wayne &
Lee Marvin
7.00 118.2 118.20 32 71 00 / 00 85.6
9 Men in War (1957) Robert Ryan &
Aldo Ray
4.30 95.7 95.70 52 76 00 / 00 85.0
11 The Wrong Man (1956) Henry Fonda &
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
3.30 75.6 138.60 102 79 00 / 00 83.3
12 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Willem Dafoe &
Directed by Martin Scorsese
8.40 25.5 27.00 100 83 01 / 00 77.1
14 Fate Is The Hunter (1964) Glenn Ford &
Jane Russell
5.70 76.0 76.00 50 67 01 / 00 77.1
13 Day of the Outlaw (1959) Robert Ryan &
Burl Ives
2.40 49.1 49.10 97 74 00 / 00 75.7
15 Voyage of the Damned (1976) James Mason &
Faye Dunaway
5.30 31.1 31.10 79 74 03 / 00 72.9
17 The Wild Party (1956) Anthony Quinn &
Carol Ohmart
2.00 45.5 45.50 139 64 00 / 00 64.1
16 Red Sky At Morning (1971) Richard Crenna 3.60 27.5 27.50 77 70 00 / 00 63.8
18 Never Steal Anything Small (1959) James Cagney &
Shirley Jones
2.60 55.1 55.10 90 59 00 / 00 60.6
21 The Badlanders (1958) Alan Ladd &
Ernest Borgnine
2.80 57.7 125.30 83 55 00 / 00 56.4
20 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) James Stewart &
John Cleese
22.20 65.8 121.00 59 52 00 / 00 55.7
19 The Hook (1963) Kirk Douglas &
Robert Walker Jr.
2.00 29.1 29.10 90 63 00 / 00 54.0
22 This Angry Age/The Sea Wall (1957) Anthony Perkins 1.30 28.7 28.70 142 62 00 / 00 52.6
23 The People Next Door (1970) Cloris Leachman &
Eli Wallach
1.30 10.4 10.40 130 67 00 / 00 50.2
24 The Big Show (1961) Esther Williams &
Cliff Robertson
2.30 38.6 38.60 89 55 00 / 00 45.3
25 Green Mansions (1959) Audrey Hepburn &
Anthony Perkins
3.40 69.9 69.90 72 45 00 / 00 44.0
26 4 Faces (2001) Peter Mark Richmond 0.00 0.1 0.10 345 60 00 / 00 29.2
27 St. Helens (1981) Art Carney 0.10 0.2 0.20 181 57 00 / 00 23.6
30 A Global Affair (1964) Bob Hope &
Elga Andersen
2.90 38.0 38.00 87 39 00 / 00 13.5
28 Deadly Harvest (1977) Clint Walker 1.90 9.8 9.80 118 47 00 / 00 12.7
29 Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971) Rosalind Russell 0.40 2.9 2.90 179 48 00 / 00 11.3
31 O'Hara's Wife (1982) Jodie Foster 0.10 0.2 0.20 171 47 00 / 00 9.8

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  1. Flora Breen Robison says:
    April 8, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    Rest in peace, Mr. Persoff

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