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
Movie | La Classe américaine | Dino's Friend (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
Movie | Don Quixote | Sancho Panza | 1992-04-20 |
Movie | Death of a Jew | Inspector Mehdaloun | 1970-04-29 |
Movie | Then Came Bronson | Papa Bear | 1969-03-24 |
Movie | The Great Bank Robbery | Papa (Juan's father) | 1969-06-24 |
Movie | Marquis de Sade: Justine | Du Harpin | 1969-04-03 |
Movie | The Girl Who Couldn't Say No | Uncle Egidio | 1968-09-26 |
Movie | Great Catherine | Sergeant | 1968-11-29 |
Movie | A Man Called Amen | Pigsty / Dean Light | 1968-11-22 |
Movie | A Rose for Everyone | Basilio | 1967-01-18 |
Movie | Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. | Tanamashu | 1966-07-29 |
Movie | Our Husbands | Cesare | 1966-08-21 |
Movie | Adultery Italian Style | Max Portesi | 1966-03-25 |
Movie | Hotel Paradiso | Hotel Proprietor | 1966-03-01 |
Movie | After the Fox | Okra | 1966-09-08 |
Movie | The Vulture | Prof. Hans Koniglich | 1966-12-23 |
Movie | A Gangster From Brooklyn | Joe Montano | 1966-10-06 |
Movie | Crime on a Summer Morning | Frank Kramer | 1965-02-17 |
Movie | Lord Jim | Schomberg | 1965-02-15 |
Movie | Alphaville | Henri Dickson | 1965-05-05 |
Movie | The Dolls | Monsignor Arendi (segment "Monsignor Cupido") | 1965-01-27 |
Movie | Marco the Magnificent | The Old Man of the Mountain | 1965-08-06 |
Movie | The Liquidator | Sheriek | 1965-11-01 |
Movie | The Blue Panther | Prof. Lambaré / Dr. Kha | 1965-08-25 |
Movie | Panic Button | Pandowski | 1964-04-10 |
Movie | The Black Tulip | Marquis de Vigogne | 1964-02-28 |
Movie | Topkapi | Gerven the Cook | 1964-09-02 |
Movie | Invasion 1700 | Mielski Zasloba | 1962-07-14 |
Movie | The Reluctant Saint | Bishop Durso | 1962-11-02 |
Movie | The Trial | Bloch | 1962-12-21 |
Movie | A Queen for Caesar | Pompey | 1962-12-22 |
Movie | The Bacchantes | Teiresias | 1961-03-02 |
Movie | Romanoff and Juliet | Vadim Romanoff | 1961-06-08 |
Movie | Ursus and the Tartar Princess | Khan of the Tartars | 1961-12-30 |
Movie | Seduction Of The South | O Zingaro | 1961-12-16 |
Movie | The Last Judgment | Play director | 1961-10-26 |
Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Spyros Acebos | 1960-08-10 |
Series | Route 66 | Unknown | 1960-10-07 |
Movie | Desert Desperadoes | The Merchant | 1959-06-30 |
Series | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Unknown | 1959-09-21 |
Movie | Touch of Evil | 'Uncle' Joe Grandi | 1958-03-30 |
Series | The Rifleman | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | Me and the Colonel | Szabuniewicz | 1958-10-01 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Series | Naked City | Unknown | 1958-09-30 |
Movie | Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst | Colonel Peng | 1957-04-01 |
Movie | Anastasia | Boris Adreivich Chernov | 1956-12-13 |
Movie | The Black Sleep | Odo the Gypsy | 1956-06-15 |
Movie | Cartouche | Il marchese di Salpiere | 1955-07-01 |
Movie | Mr. Arkadin | Jakob Zouk | 1955-08-09 |
Movie | The Widow | The Uncle | 1955-08-01 |
Movie | They Who Dare | Captain George One | 1954-02-02 |
Movie | You Know What Sailors Are | 1954-02-09 | |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Movie | Desert Legion | Pvt. Plevko | 1953-05-08 |
Movie | Outpost in Morocco | Lieutenant Glysko | 1949-05-02 |
Movie | Black Magic | Gitano | 1949-08-19 |
Movie | My Girl Tisa | Mr. Grumbach | 1948-02-07 |
Movie | Relentless | Joe Faringo | 1948-06-15 |
Movie | Fiesta | Chato Vasquez | 1947-06-12 |
Movie | The Gangster | Nick Jammey | 1947-11-25 |
Movie | A Scandal in Paris | Emile Vernet | 1946-07-19 |
Movie | Pardon My Past | Jim Arnold | 1945-12-24 |
Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Uncle Pio | 1944-02-11 |
Movie | Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944-01-01 |
Movie | Dragon Seed | Wu Lien | 1944-07-20 |
Movie | Can't Help Singing | Prince Gregory Stroganovsky | 1944-12-25 |
Movie | Five Graves to Cairo | Farid | 1943-05-26 |
Movie | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Pablo | 1943-07-12 |
Movie | The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | The Boss | 1943-12-12 |
Movie | His Butler's Sister | Popoff | 1943-11-26 |
Movie | Reap the Wild Wind | The Lamb (uncredited) (voice) | 1942-03-26 |
Movie | Tortilla Flat | Pablo | 1942-05-21 |
Movie | New York Town | Stefan Janowski | 1941-10-31 |
Movie | The Corsican Brothers | Baron Colonna | 1941-11-28 |
Movie | The Way of All Flesh | Paul Kriza | 1940-07-05 |
Movie | The Texas Rangers Ride Again | Mio Pio | 1940-12-13 |
Movie | Untamed | Joe Easter | 1940-07-24 |
Movie | The Great McGinty | The Boss | 1940-08-01 |
Movie | North West Mounted Police | Dan Duroc | 1940-10-22 |
Movie | King of Chinatown | Frank Baturin | 1939-03-17 |
Movie | Union Pacific | Fiesta | 1939-05-05 |
Movie | Paris Honeymoon | Mayor Peter Karloca | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 | Self | 1939-09-22 |
Movie | The Magnificent Fraud | Jules LaCroix / President Alvarado | 1939-07-19 |
Movie | Honeymoon in Bali | Tony | 1939-09-29 |
Movie | Disputed Passage | Dr. 'Tubby' Forster | 1939-10-25 |
Movie | The Buccaneer | Dominique You | 1938-02-04 |
Movie | Dangerous to Know | Stephen Recka | 1938-03-11 |
Movie | Spawn of the North | Red Skain | 1938-08-26 |
Movie | Ride a Crooked Mile | Mike Balan | 1938-12-09 |
Movie | The Soldier and the Lady | Ivan Ogareff | 1937-04-09 |
Movie | Her Husband Lies | Big Ed Bullock | 1937-03-13 |
Movie | King of Gamblers | Steve Kalkas | 1937-04-22 |
Movie | This Way Please | Tartar Chieftain (uncredited) | 1937-10-15 |
Movie | The Great Gambini | The Great Gambini | 1937-06-24 |
Movie | High, Wide and Handsome | Joe Varese | 1937-07-21 |
Movie | Woman Trap | Joe Ramirez de la Valle | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Dr. Zaranoff | 1936-02-22 |
Movie | Desire | Avilia | 1936-04-11 |
Movie | The Jungle Princess | Karen Neg | 1936-11-27 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1936 | Self | 1936-12-30 |
Movie | Anthony Adverse | Carlo Cibo | 1936-08-26 |
Movie | The General Died at Dawn | General Yang | 1936-11-17 |
Movie | Reckless | Chef at Wedding (uncredited) | 1935-04-19 |
Movie | Naughty Marietta | Rudolpho | 1935-03-29 |
Movie | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Otamanu | 1935-01-11 |
Movie | Black Fury | Sokolsky | 1935-05-18 |
Movie | The Winning Ticket | Guiseppe | 1935-02-08 |
Movie | Go Into Your Dance | Mexican in La Cucaracha Cantina | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | Two-Fisted | Taxi Driver | 1935-10-03 |
Movie | The Big Broadcast of 1936 | Boris | 1935-09-20 |
Movie | The Gay Deception | Spellek | 1935-09-13 |
Movie | Paris in Spring | Cafe Manager | 1935-05-27 |
Movie | China Seas | Paul Romanoff | 1935-08-09 |
Movie | The Great Flirtation | Paul Wengler | 1934-06-15 |
Movie | Whom the Gods Destroy | Peter Korotoff | 1934-07-12 |
Movie | The Scarlet Empress | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1934-05-09 |
Movie | Fugitive Lovers | Deaf-Mute Bus Passenger (uncredited) | 1934-01-05 |
Movie | Straight Is the Way | Mr. Slavko (uncredited) | 1934-08-10 |
Movie | Sadie McKee | Cafe Owner Riccori | 1934-05-09 |
Movie | The Merry Widow | Manager at Maxim's | 1934-11-02 |
Movie | Now and Forever | French Jeweller (uncredited) | 1934-08-31 |
Movie | Here Is My Heart | Manager of Hotel | 1934-12-28 |
Movie | The Captain Hates the Sea | General Salazaro | 1934-11-02 |
Movie | Chained | Pablo, the Ranch Chef | 1934-08-31 |
Movie | Lady by Choice | Poupolis (uncredited) | 1934-10-15 |
Movie | Clear All Wires! | Hotel desk clerk (uncredited) | 1933-02-24 |
Movie | Gabriel Over the White House | Delegate to the Debt Conference (uncredited) | 1933-03-31 |
Movie | Queen Christina | Pedro (uncredited) | 1933-12-26 |
Movie | Storm at Daybreak | Gypsy Fiddler (uncredited) | 1933-06-14 |
Movie | The Devil's in Love | Adjutant | 1933-07-21 |
Movie | Okay, America! | Bit Role (uncredited) | 1932-09-08 |