Akim Tamiroff

Born: 1899-10-27, Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

Died: 1972-09-17

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

• The Rifleman (1958)
• Four Star Playhouse (1952)
• Route 66 (1960)
• The Defenders (1961)
• Climax! (1954)
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)
• Le Procès (1962)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Lord Jim (1965)
• Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
• La Tulipe noire (1964)
• Fiesta (1947)
• Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
• Mr. Arkadin (1955)
• China Seas (1935)
• Fugitive Lovers (1934)
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
• The Scarlet Empress (1934)
• I briganti italiani (1961)
• Dragon Seed (1944)
• Topkapi (1964)
• La Classe américaine (1993)
• Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
• Twenty Years After (1944)
• Queen Christina (1934)
• North West Mounted Police (1940)
• After the Fox (1966)