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
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1899-10-27 · Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
- Died
- 1972-09-17
Known for
- Touch of Evil (1958) — 'Uncle' Joe Grandi
- Alphaville (1965) — Henri Dickson
- The Trial (1962) — Bloch
- Ocean's Eleven (1960) — Spyros Acebos
- La Classe américaine (1993) — Dino's Friend (archive footage)
- Topkapi (1964) — Gerven the Cook
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) — Pablo
- Mr. Arkadin (1955) — Jakob Zouk
- Anastasia (1956) — Boris Adreivich Chernov
- Five Graves to Cairo (1943) — Farid
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) — Bit Part (uncredited)
- The Black Tulip (1964) — Marquis de Vigogne
- Queen Christina (1934) — Pedro (uncredited)
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) — The Boss
- After the Fox (1966) — Okra
- Lord Jim (1965) — Schomberg