Akim Tamiroff

11 titles·Since 1939

October 27, 1899 · Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

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

Frequently works with

Orson Welles

3 titles together

Ingrid Bergman

2 titles together

Filmography (11)

After the Fox

1966 · Okra

Alphaville

1965 · Henri Dickson

The Black Tulip

1964 · Marquis de Vigogne

The Trial

1962 · Bloch

Touch of Evil

1958 · 'Uncle' Joe Grandi

Anastasia

1956 · Boris Adreivich Chernov

Mr. Arkadin

1955 · Jakob Zouk

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943 · Pablo

Five Graves to Cairo

1943 · Farid

The Great McGinty

1940 · The Boss

Union Pacific

1939 · Fiesta

October 27, 1899 · Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]

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