Akim Tamiroff

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-10-27 (73 years old)

Deathday

1972-09-17

Place of Birth

Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

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

Acting

1960

Ocean's Eleven

as Spyros Acebos

1958

Touch of Evil

as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi

1962

The Trial

as Bloch

1964

Topkapi

as Gerven the Cook

1965

Lord Jim

as Schomberg

1965

Alphaville

as Henri Dickson

1992

Don Quixote

as Sancho Panza

1964

The Black Tulip

as Marquis de Vigogne

1947

The Gangster

as Nick Jammey

1956

The Black Sleep

as Odo the Gypsy

1940

1941

The Corsican Brothers

as Baron Colonna

1939

Union Pacific

as Fiesta

1934

Sadie McKee

as Riccori

1947

Fiesta

as Chato Vasquez

1955

Mr. Arkadin

as Jakob Zouk

1956

Anastasia

as Boris Adreivich Chernov

1943

1937

1934

Chained

as Pablo, the Ranch Chef

1944

Can't Help Singing

as Prince Gregory Stroganovsky

1937

1966

1935

1936

1935

1949

Black Magic

as Gitano

1938

Spawn of the North

as Red Skain

1936

Desire

as Avilia

1966

Our Husbands

as Cesare

1941

New York Town

as Stefan Janowski

1942

1937

This Way Please

as Tartar Chieftain (uncredited)

1966

The Vulture

as Prof. Hans Koniglich

1944

Dragon Seed

as Wu Lien

1969

The Great Bank Robbery

as Papa (Juan's father)

1961

Romanoff and Juliet

as Vadim Romanoff

1968

Great Catherine

as Sergeant

1936

1958

Me and the Colonel

as Szabuniewicz

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)

1962

The Reluctant Saint

as Bishop Durso

1954

They Who Dare

as Captain George One

1938

The Buccaneer

as Dominique You

1966

Hotel Paradiso

as Hotel Proprietor

1946

A Scandal in Paris

as Emile Vernet

1933

Clear All Wires!

as Hotel desk clerk (uncredited)

1939

The Magnificent Fraud

as Jules LaCroix / President Alvarado

1955

Cartouche

as Il marchese di Salpiere

1934

Here Is My Heart

as Manager of Hotel

1936

1969

Then Came Bronson

as Papa Bear

1949

Outpost in Morocco

as Lieutenant Glysko

1948

Relentless

as Joe Faringo

1945

Pardon My Past

as Jim Arnold

1935

Go Into Your Dance

as Mexican in La Cucaracha Cantina

1961

The Bacchantes

as Teiresias

1935

Two-Fisted

as Taxi Driver

1935

Paris in Spring

as Cafe Manager

1953

Desert Legion

as Pvt. Plevko

1937

Her Husband Lies

as Big Ed Bullock

1939

Paris Honeymoon

as Mayor Peter Karloca

1939

King of Chinatown

as Frank Baturin

1935

Reckless

as Chef at Wedding (uncredited)

1962

Invasion 1700

as Mielski Zasloba

1969

1934

Whom the Gods Destroy

as Peter Korotoff

1938

Dangerous to Know

as Stephen Recka

1965

Marco the Magnificent

as The Old Man of the Mountain

1934

The Captain Hates the Sea

as General Salazaro

1968

1933

1964

Panic Button

as Pandowski

1933

Storm at Daybreak

as Gypsy Fiddler (uncredited)

1935

China Seas

as Paul Romanoff

1961

1934

Now and Forever

as French Jeweller (uncredited)

1940

Untamed

as Joe Easter

1937

The Great Gambini

as The Great Gambini

1938

Ride a Crooked Mile

as Mike Balan

1967

1965

The Liquidator

as Sheriek

1936

Woman Trap

as Joe Ramirez de la Valle

1937

King of Gamblers

as Steve Kalkas

1933

Queen Christina

as Pedro (uncredited)

1968

Either All or None

as Pigsty / Dean Light

1966

1940

1964

Andy... Andy Silly Andy

as Bakker, brandmeester

1961

The Last Judgment

as Play director

1933

Gabriel Over the White House

as Delegate to the Debt Conference (uncredited)

1959

Desert Desperadoes

as The Merchant

1939

Disputed Passage

as Dr. 'Tubby' Forster

1934

Fugitive Lovers

as Deaf-Mute Bus Passenger (uncredited)

1934

Straight Is the Way

as Mr. Slavko (uncredited)

1934

The Scarlet Empress

as Bit Part (uncredited)

1934

Lady by Choice

as Poupolis (uncredited)

1966

1961

Ursus and the Tartar Princess

as Khan of the Tartars

1955

The Widow

as The Uncle

1948

My Girl Tisa

as Mr. Grumbach

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1936

Anthony Adverse

as Carlo Cibo

1934

The Great Flirtation

as Paul Wengler

1935

Naughty Marietta

as Rudolpho

1965

The Dolls

as Monsignor Arendi (segment "Monsignor Cupido")

1934

The Merry Widow

as Manager at Maxim's

1966

1965

1993

La Classe américaine

as Dino's Friend (archive footage)

1932

Okay, America!

as Bit Role (uncredited)

1965

The Blue Panther

as Prof. Lambaré / Dr. Kha

1962

1969

Death of a Jew

as Inspector Mehdaloun

1935

Black Fury

as Sokolsky

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