Akim Tamiroff
Known for Acting
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
Ocean's Eleven
1960
as Spyros Acebos
Lord Jim
1965
as Schomberg
Touch of Evil
1958
as 'Uncle' Joe Grandi
Desire
1936
as Avilia
Union Pacific
1939
as Fiesta
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Du Harpin
The Trial
1962
as Bloch
Fiesta
1947
as Chato Vasquez
The Black Tulip
1964
as Marquis de Vigogne
Topkapi
1964
as Gerven the Cook
La Classe américaine
1993
as Dino's Friend (archive footage)
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
as The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)
Spawn of the North
1938
as Red Skain
Anastasia
1956
as Boris Adreivich Chernov
The Gay Deception
1935
as Spellek
The Great Flirtation
1934
as Paul Wengler
Great Catherine
1968
as Sergeant
Mr. Arkadin
1955
as Jakob Zouk
Me and the Colonel
1958
as Szabuniewicz
North West Mounted Police
1940
as Dan Duroc