Akim Tamiroff
Known for Acting
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
Ocean's Eleven
1960
as Spyros Acebos
Touch of Evil
1958
as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi
Topkapi
1964
as Gerven the Cook
Mr. Arkadin
1955
as Jakob Zouk
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Pablo
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Du Harpin
Lord Jim
1965
as Schomberg
Queen Christina
1934
as Pedro (uncredited)
Union Pacific
1939
as Fiesta
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
as The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)
The Scarlet Empress
1934
as Bit Part (uncredited)
The Black Sleep
1956
as Odo the Gypsy
The Merry Widow
1934
as Manager at Maxim's
Anastasia
1956
as Boris Adreivich Chernov
Five Graves to Cairo
1943
as Farid
The Black Tulip
1964
as Marquis de Vigogne
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
as The Boss
The Trial
1962
as Bloch
After the Fox
1966
as Okra
Alphaville
1965
as Henri Dickson