Akim Tamiroff
Department: 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
Known For
Ocean's Eleven
1960
Touch of Evil
1958
The Trial
1962
Topkapi
1964
Lord Jim
1965
Alphaville
1965
Don Quixote
1992
The Black Tulip
1964
The Gangster
1947
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
The Black Sleep
1956
The Great McGinty
1940
Five Graves to Cairo
1943
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
The Corsican Brothers
1941
Union Pacific
1939
Sadie McKee
1934
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957
Fiesta
1947
Mr. Arkadin
1955
Anastasia
1956
His Butler's Sister
1943
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
Chained
1934
Can't Help Singing
1944
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
1966
North West Mounted Police
1940
The Gay Deception
1935
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936
The Winning Ticket
1935
Black Magic
1949
Spawn of the North
1938
Desire
1936
Our Husbands
1966
New York Town
1941
Tortilla Flat
1942
This Way Please
1937
Honeymoon in Bali
1939
The Vulture
1966
Dragon Seed
1944
The Great Bank Robbery
1969
Romanoff and Juliet
1961
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
Great Catherine
1968
The General Died at Dawn
1936
Me and the Colonel
1958
Reap the Wild Wind
1942
The Reluctant Saint
1962
They Who Dare
1954
The Buccaneer
1938
Hotel Paradiso
1966
A Scandal in Paris
1946
Clear All Wires!
1933
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
Cartouche
1955
Here Is My Heart
1934
La moglie di mio marito
1961
The Jungle Princess
1936
Then Came Bronson
1969
Outpost in Morocco
1949
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935
Relentless
1948
Pardon My Past
1945
Go Into Your Dance
1935
The Bacchantes
1961
Two-Fisted
1935
Paris in Spring
1935
Desert Legion
1953
Her Husband Lies
1937
King of Chinatown
1939
Paris Honeymoon
1939
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
Reckless
1935
Invasion 1700
1962
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
Whom the Gods Destroy
1934
Dangerous to Know
1938
Marco the Magnificent
1965
The Captain Hates the Sea
1934
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
1968
The Devil's in Love
1933
Panic Button
1964
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
Storm at Daybreak
1933
China Seas
1935
Seduction Of The South
1961
Now and Forever
1934
Untamed
1940
The Great Gambini
1937
Ride a Crooked Mile
1938
A Rose for Everyone
1967
The Liquidator
1965
Woman Trap
1936
King of Gamblers
1937
Breakdowns of 1936
1936
Queen Christina
1934
Either All or None
1968
After the Fox
1966
The Way of All Flesh
1940
Andy... Andy Silly Andy
1964
The Last Judgment
1961
Gabriel Over the White House
1933
Desert Desperadoes
1959
Disputed Passage
1939
Fugitive Lovers
1934
Straight Is the Way
1934
The Scarlet Empress
1934
Lady by Choice
1934
Adultery Italian Style
1966
Ursus and the Tartar Princess
1961
The Widow
1955
My Girl Tisa
1948
Twenty Years After
1944
Anthony Adverse
1936
The Great Flirtation
1934
Naughty Marietta
1935
The Dolls
1965
The Merry Widow
1934
A Gangster From Brooklyn
1966
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
Crime on a Summer Morning
1965
La Classe américaine
1993
Okay, America!
1932
The Blue Panther
1965
A Queen for Caesar
1962
Death of a Jew
1969
Black Fury
1935
The Miracle Worker
1957
Route 66
1960
Naked City
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Climax!
1954
Matinee Theater
1955
The Rifleman
1958
Johnny Ringo
1959
The Defenders
1961
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Naked City
1958
Four Star Playhouse
1952
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964