Personal Info
Birth date
1899-10-27 (125 Years)
Day of death
1972-09-17
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
Also known as
Akim Tamirof
Akin Tamiroff
Аким Тамирофф
A. Tamiroff
Аким Михайлович Тамиров
Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff (Russian: Аким Михайлович Тамиров; 29 October 1899 – 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
Filmography
The Rifleman
7
Overview:
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.Matinee Theater
5
Overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.Four Star Playhouse
6.333
Overview:
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.The Defenders
6.2
Overview:
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
Overview:
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
5.8
Overview:
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.DuPont Show of the Month
6.75
Overview:
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.Johnny Ringo
5.7
Overview:
Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie.Naked City
5.5
Overview:
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Overview:
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.Touch of Evil
7.755
Overview:
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.Ocean's Eleven
6.364
Overview:
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.Marquis de Sade: Justine
5.1
Overview:
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.Alphaville
6.9
Overview:
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”The Trial
7.434
Overview:
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.Topkapi
6.45
Overview:
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.For Whom the Bell Tolls
6.539
Overview:
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.The Black Tulip
6.3
Overview:
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.Outpost in Morocco
4.8
Overview:
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.Reap the Wild Wind
6.391
Overview:
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.Desire
6.9
Overview:
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.Anastasia
6.8
Overview:
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.China Seas
6.3
Overview:
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!After the Fox
6
Overview:
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.Naughty Marietta
5.2
Overview:
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.Union Pacific
6.5
Overview:
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
5.6
Overview:
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. He is in for trouble however when a local girl is banished to the island by her father, who then comes after Crusoe.Anthony Adverse
5.8
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Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.Acting
1993La Classe américaine as Dino's Friend (archive footage)
1992Don Quixote as Sancho Panza
1969The Great Bank Robbery as Papa (Juan's father)
1969Marquis de Sade: Justine as Du Harpin
1969Then Came Bronson as Papa Bear
1969Death of a Jew as Inspector Mehdaloun
1968Great Catherine as Sergeant
1968A Man Called Amen as Pigsty / Dean Light
1968The Girl Who Couldn't Say No as Uncle Egidio
1967A Rose for Everyone as Basilio
1966The Vulture as Prof. Hans Koniglich
1966A Gangster From Brooklyn as Joe Montano
1966After the Fox as Okra
1966Our Husbands as Cesare
1966Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. as Tanamashu
1966Adultery Italian Style as Max Portesi
1966Hotel Paradiso as Hotel Proprietor
1965The Liquidator as Sheriek
1965The Blue Panther as Prof. Lambaré / Dr. Kha
1965Marco the Magnificent as The Old Man of the Mountain
1965Alphaville as Henri Dickson
1965Crime on a Summer Morning as Frank Kramer
1965Lord Jim as Schomberg
1965The Dolls as Monsignor Arendi (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
1964Andy... Andy Silly Andy as Bakker, brandmeester
1964Topkapi as Gerven the Cook
1964Panic Button as Pandowski
1964The Black Tulip as Marquis de Vigogne
1962A Queen for Caesar as Pompey
1962The Trial as Bloch
1962The Reluctant Saint as Bishop Durso
1962Invasion 1700 as Mielski Zasloba
1961Ursus and the Tartar Princess as Khan of the Tartars
1961Seduction Of The South as O Zingaro
1961The Last Judgment as Play director
1961The Defenders (1 Episode) as John Solasky
1961Romanoff and Juliet as Vadim Romanoff
1961The Bacchantes as Teiresias
1961La moglie di mio marito as Unknown
1960Route 66 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Ocean's Eleven as Spyros Acebos
1959Johnny Ringo (1 Episode) as Andy Baranov
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as Tony
1959Desert Desperadoes as The Merchant
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Me and the Colonel as Szabuniewicz
1958Naked City (1, 1 Episode) as Demetru Lapesku, Emil Pappas
1958The Rifleman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Touch of Evil as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi
1957DuPont Show of the Month (1 Episode) as Governor (uncredited)
1957Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Colonel Peng
1956Anastasia as Boris Adreivich Chernov
1956The Black Sleep as Odo the Gypsy
1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Mr. Arkadin as Jakob Zouk
1955The Widow as The Uncle
1955Cartouche as Il marchese di Salpiere
1954Climax! (1 Episode) as Albert Ganz
1954You Know What Sailors Are as Unknown
1954They Who Dare as Captain George One
1953Desert Legion as Pvt. Plevko
1952Four Star Playhouse (1 Episode) as Mendoza
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1 Episode) as Captain Torras
1949Black Magic as Gitano
1949Outpost in Morocco as Lieutenant Glysko
1948Relentless as Joe Faringo
1948My Girl Tisa as Mr. Grumbach
1947The Gangster as Nick Jammey
1947Fiesta as Chato Vasquez
1946A Scandal in Paris as Emile Vernet
1945Pardon My Past as Jim Arnold
1944Can't Help Singing as Prince Gregory Stroganovsky
1944The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek as The Boss
1944Dragon Seed as Wu Lien
1944The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio
1944Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
1943His Butler's Sister as Popoff
1943For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo
1943Five Graves to Cairo as Farid
1942Tortilla Flat as Pablo
1942Reap the Wild Wind as The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)
1941The Corsican Brothers as Baron Colonna
1941New York Town as Stefan Janowski
1940The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Mio Pio
1940North West Mounted Police as Dan Duroc
1940The Great McGinty as The Boss
1940Untamed as Joe Easter
1940The Way of All Flesh as Paul Kriza
1939Disputed Passage as Dr. 'Tubby' Forster
1939Honeymoon in Bali as Tony
1939Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 as Self
1939The Magnificent Fraud as Jules LaCroix / President Alvarado
1939Union Pacific as Fiesta
1939King of Chinatown as Frank Baturin
1939Paris Honeymoon as Mayor Peter Karloca
1938Ride a Crooked Mile as Mike Balan
1938Spawn of the North as Red Skain
1938Dangerous to Know as Stephen Recka
1938The Buccaneer as Dominique You
1937This Way Please as Tartar Chieftain (uncredited)
1937High, Wide and Handsome as Joe Varese
1937The Great Gambini as The Great Gambini
1937King of Gamblers as Steve Kalkas
1937The Soldier and the Lady as Ivan Ogareff
1937Her Husband Lies as Big Ed Bullock
1936Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
1936The Jungle Princess as Karen Neg
1936The General Died at Dawn as General Yang
1936Anthony Adverse as Carlo Cibo
1936Desire as Avilia
1936Woman Trap as Joe Ramirez de la Valle
1936The Story of Louis Pasteur as Dr. Zaranoff
1935Two-Fisted as Taxi Driver
1935The Big Broadcast of 1936 as Boris
1935The Gay Deception as Spellek
1935China Seas as Paul Romanoff
1935Paris in Spring as Cafe Manager
1935Black Fury as Sokolsky
1935Go Into Your Dance as Mexican in La Cucaracha Cantina
1935Reckless as Chef at Wedding (uncredited)
1935Naughty Marietta as Rudolpho
1935The Winning Ticket as Guiseppe
1935The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Otamanu
1934Here Is My Heart as Manager of Hotel
1934The Captain Hates the Sea as General Salazaro
1934The Merry Widow as Manager at Maxim's
1934Lady by Choice as Poupolis (uncredited)
1934Chained as Pablo, the Ranch Chef
1934Now and Forever as French Jeweller (uncredited)
1934Straight Is the Way as Mr. Slavko (uncredited)
1934Whom the Gods Destroy as Peter Korotoff
1934The Great Flirtation as Paul Wengler
1934Sadie McKee as Riccori
1934The Scarlet Empress as Bit Part (uncredited)
1934Fugitive Lovers as Deaf-Mute Bus Passenger (uncredited)
1933Queen Christina as Pedro (uncredited)
1933The Devil's in Love as Adjutant
1933Storm at Daybreak as Gypsy Fiddler (uncredited)
1933Gabriel Over the White House as Delegate to the Debt Conference (uncredited)
1933Clear All Wires! as Hotel desk clerk (uncredited)
1932Okay, America! as Bit Role (uncredited)