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| Akim Tamiroff (October 29, 1899, Baku, Georgia - September 17, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was an American actor. Tamiroff, who was of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre. He managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent. Tamiroff's film debut came in 1932 in an uncredited role in Okay, America!. He performed in several more uncredited roles until 1935, when he co-starred in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. The following year, he was cast in the title role in The General Died at Dawn, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Soldier and the Lady, The Buccaneer, Union Pacific, North West Mounted Police, The Corsican Brothers, Tortilla Flat, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls (another Oscar nomination), The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Great McGinty and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. In later years, Tamiroff appeared in Touch of Evil, Ocean's Eleven, Topkapi, Alphaville and After the Fox. [ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Akim Tamiroff ] Some related entries: Brenda Fricker | Mary-Margaret Humes | Carla Gugino | Robert Fuller | Going My Way | Sebastian Spence | Monique Leyrac | Kylie Bax | Anthony Andrews | Dustin Hoffman | Jill Jacobson This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Akim Tamiroff; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL. | Searches on eBay |
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