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

Known for

★7.7

Touch of Evil

1958

★6.9

Alphaville

1965

★7.4

The Trial

1962

★6.4

Ocean's Eleven

1960

★7.6

La Classe américaine

1993

★6.5

Topkapi

1964

★6.5

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943

★6.8

Mr. Arkadin

1955

★6.8

Anastasia

1956

★7.0

Five Graves to Cairo

1943

★6.3

The Black Tulip

1964

★6.9

Queen Christina

1934

★6.9

The Scarlet Empress

1934

★6.8

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

1944

★6.1

After the Fox

1966

★6.8

Lord Jim

1965

★6.7

Union Pacific

1939

★6.9

The Great McGinty

1940

★7.2

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

★5.0

Marquis de Sade: Justine

1969

★6.4

Reap the Wild Wind

1942

★6.9

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936

★6.6

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935

★7.0

Desire

1936