Akim Tamiroff
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as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi Touch of Evil 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
Touch of Evil
as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi
Alphaville
as Henri Dickson
The Trial
as Bloch
Ocean's Eleven
as Spyros Acebos
La Classe américaine
as Dino's Friend (archive footage)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Pablo
Topkapi
as Gerven the Cook
Mr. Arkadin
as Jakob Zouk
Anastasia
as Boris Adreivich Chernov
Five Graves to Cairo
as Farid
The Black Tulip
as Marquis de Vigogne
The Scarlet Empress
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Queen Christina
as Pedro (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as The Boss
Lord Jim
as Schomberg
After the Fox
as Okra
Union Pacific
as Fiesta
The Great McGinty
as The Boss
The Merry Widow
as Manager at Maxim's
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Du Harpin