Akim Tamiroff
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
Also known as: Akim Tamirof, Akin Tamiroff, Аким Тамирофф +3 more
Filmography (13 movies)
After the Fox
1966 • 1h 48m
Lord Jim
1965 • 2h 34m
Topkapi
1964 • 1h 59m
The Trial
1962 • 1h 59m
Ocean's Eleven
1960 • 2h 7m
Touch of Evil
1958 • 1h 51m
Anastasia
1956 • 1h 45m
Mr. Arkadin
1955 • 1h 47m
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 • 2h 50m
Five Graves to Cairo
1943 • 1h 36m
The Great McGinty
1940 • 1h 22m
Union Pacific
1939 • 2h 15m
Desire
1936 • 1h 35m
