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  WFMU's Beware of the Blog: The Multi-Russian: Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff was a versatile character actor of Armenian and Russian descent with a very thick accent.
Tamiroff's ability to play various nationalities (all with a heavy Russian accent) had been fully established when he was signed to Paramount for his first studio contract in 1936.
Tamiroff is probably best remembered for his role as the comic-heavy in the last of the film noir classics, Touch of Evil (1958).
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  Akim Tamiroff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akim Tamiroff (October 29, 1899, Baku, Azerbaijan - September 17, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was an American actor.
Tamiroff, who was of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre.
Tamiroff's film debut came in 1932 in an uncredited role in Okay, America!
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 Akim Tamiroff: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Akim Tamiroff (October 29, EHandler: no quick summary.
(Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] despite his thick Russian accent.
Tamiroff's film debut came in 1932 in an uncredited role in Okay, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The worst of the lords is Akim Tamiroff, a cunning, savage bandit who intends to take over the entire country and place one of his top aides in control of each of China's 12 provinces.
Tamiroff's men capture the lovers and take them onto his huge junk which lies in the harbor.
Tamiroff orders Carroll and Cooper executed, but the latter devises a clever scheme whereby he and his lady love are set free.
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 Bio for Akim Tamiroff on MSN Movies
Essaying a wide variety of nationalities, Tamiroff was most frequently cast as a villain or reprobate with a deep down sentimental and/or honorable streak.
During the 1950s, Tamiroff was a close associate of actor/director Orson Welles, who cast Tamiroff in underhanded supporting roles in Mr.
Akim Tamiroff continued to flourish with meaty assignments in films like Topkapi (1964) and After the Fox (1966), rounding out his long and fruitful career with a starring assignment in the French/Italian political melodrama, Death of a Jew (1970).
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 Entertainfo - Akim Tamiroff
Nach einer Ausbildung an der Moskauer Schauspielschule entschied Akim Tamiroff sich 1932 während einer USA-Tournee, in Amerika zu bleiben.
Tamiroff war kurz und untersetzt, weitere Markenzeichen waren sein dunkles Haar, dicke Augenbrauen und eindringliche Augen; oft trug er einen schwarzen Schnurrbart.
In den 1960er Jahren arbeitete Akim Tamiroff meist in Europa, wo er in Filmen wie "La tulipe noire" (1962, mit Alain Delon) erschien.
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 LDS (Mormon) Character in the movie "Ocean's 11" (1960)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Danny Ocean (played by Frank Sinatra) and Sam Harmon (played by Dean Martin) tell Spyros Acebos (the man behind the caper, played by Akim Tamiroff) that they will be going to Salt Lake City to recruit Jackson into the titular group of eleven old military buddies who pull off a caper.
The group's plan is to simultaneously rob multiple highly secure Las Vegas casinos all in one night.
SPYROS ACEBOS (Akim Tamiroff): Don't tell me the bad.
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 Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Carroll is an unwilling bad girl because she is pressured by her shady and weak father, a sick man who coughs continuously and wants to finish his life in the USA.
General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a kitschy, megalomaniacal warlord who, in spite of his latest successful raid is in bad shape and needs money for arms.
Tamiroff, who keeps stealing the show delivers the most flmaboyant (and perhaps tghe best) performance of his long career.
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 Scifilm -- Reviews, THE VULTURE (1966)
Attracted by the low costs of film making in Canada, as well as the tax-shelter incentives set up by the federal government, B-movie makers by the hundreds have made my home and native land the locale for their filming oeuvres.
Akim Tamiroff is able to lend some dignity to an undignified role.
Tamiroff was usually able to supplement his roles with a healthy dose of humor, but he plays his role entirely straight, which is a mixed blessing.
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 Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, William Frawley, J.M.Kerrigan, Philip Ahn, Lee Tung Foo, Leonid Kinskey, et al.
General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a kitschy, megalomaniacal warlord who, in spite of his latest successful raid is in bad shape and needs more funds to buy arms with.
Tamiroff was nominated, but lost to Walter Brennan (in "Come and Get It").
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 Akim - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
To rescue his wife from her catatonic state, a mad scientist performs human brain transplants in his remote castle.
Based on Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1927 novel, this is the story of the lives of five people who were killed when a rickety bridge in Peru collapsed and sent them to their deaths.
Pirate Jean Lafitte (Fredric March) allies with the United States in the War of 1812 and is able to beat the British on the high seas.
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 Are you looking for Actor Tamiroff? This page provides new information on Actor Tamiroff!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Romeo and Juliet ** Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn...
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn...
Akim Tamiroff has appeared in the following movies, ordered with the most recent movie first...
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 tamiroff search results | Information relating to tamiroff from Snapsearch (US results displayed)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Chronicles the career of the gifted character actor who was featured in over 100 films.
Tamiroff appeared in Touch of Evil, Ocean's Eleven, Topkapi,...
Tamiroff - movies, photos, video, biography, interviews, awards, news, filmography, credits.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Outpost in Morocco -- Robert Florey - DVD - Black & White
Robert Florey, George Raft, Marie Windsor, Akim Tamiroff
He must protect his garrison from the rebel hordes of a native Emir (Eduard Franz) -- who happens to be the father of Cara (Marie Windsor), the woman Gerard loves.
Akim Tamiroff easily steals the show as Gerard's slovenly second-in-command.
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 After the Fox Review (1966)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
One of the greatest robberies ever has been the theft of a huge amount of gold bars from a security van outside Cairo, and now the bullion is on its way to Italy.
I like the way the proud, passionate Aldo throws open the window of his apartment and yells, "I am Aldo Vanucci!" just as the two detectives hot on his trail are passing by.
And the way his contact for the robbery (Akim Tamiroff) uses a young woman to lip synch his instructions so as not to arouse suspicion.
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 Amazon.com: Scandal in Paris (1946) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Akim Tamiroff plays his croaking sidekick (a frog to Sanders's prince of crime, or perhaps more accurately a dragon to the sneaky St. George), and Gene Lockhart is his nemesis, the disgraced former chief of police who emerges as less a figure of fun than a sad clown.
Akim Tamiroff starts out as an ignorant buffoon with a knife, but gradually turns the role into one of real threat and danger.
The movie is laced with clever dialogue by Vidocq and the gradual resentment by Emil.
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 The Trial
Welles plays K.'s useless Advocate, in bed throughout, tended by nurse Leni (Romy Schneider), who reveals her webbed fingers.
Akim Tamiroff is Bloch, another accused, but one whose case has gone on for years, for whom the case has become the determinant in his life, dominated by Leni and the Advocate.
Welles puts out a huge amount of material here and it becomes an interesting exercise to interpret the various scenes and encounters in terms of the theological, the sociological, the psychological.
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 Akim Tamiroff - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Akim Tamiroff - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
Akim Tamiroff - Filmography, Awards, Biography, Agent, Discussions, Photos, News Articles, Fan Sites.
Akim Tamiroff - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Akim Tamiroff Biography, Filmography, Trailers,
Born 1899, October - Earthy Russian character actor Akim Tamiroff was relatively aimless, not settling upon a theatrical career until he was nearly 19.
Selected from 500 applicants, Tamiroff was trained by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater School.
While touring the U.S. with a Russian acting troupe in 1923, Tamiroff decided to remain in New York and give Broadway...
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 Five Graves to Cairo movie for sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The only surviving member of a tank crew in North Africa during WWII, part of the Eighth Army, which has been routed by Rommel's celebrated Afrika Korps, he reaches the Empress of Britain Hotel in a small desert town delusional from heat exposure.
Hotel owner Farid (Akim Tamiroff) hides him from the arriving Nazi troops, who accompany Rommel to his hotel.
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck, Fortunio Bonanova, Miles Mander
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 USATODAY.com - A Gary Cooper collection of Paramount importance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cooper is a soldier of fortune in Shanghai bankrolling guns to topple warlord Akim Tamiroff.
Blonde-and-beautiful Madeleine Carroll (The 39 Steps) plays the daughter of a Tamiroff stooge and switches allegiances after falling for Cooper.
Clifford Odets wrote the screenplay, and the jazzy direction is by Lewis Milestone.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2005-05-30-mikes-menu_x.htm   (408 words)

  
 Akim Tamiroff, tous les films avec Akim Tamiroff
Akim Tamiroff, tous les films avec Akim Tamiroff
Tamiroff > Films n° 1 à 1 (sur 1)
Avec : Orson Welles, Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff
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 Akim Tamiroff Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Paolo Stoppa, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff, Lydia Brazzi, Maurice Denham.
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer, Ivan Desny, Natalie Schafer, Sacha Pitoeff, Karel Stepanek.
Starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, C Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, Akim Tamiroff, Hattie McDaniel, Dudley Digges.
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 Akim Tamiroff - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...
Akim Tamiroff - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
Akim Tamiroff : From TV to the Movie Screen.
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 Aki - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com
Amerasian children are being held in a Vietnam prison camp and an American colonel returns to rescue them.
Directed By: Frank Ryan Starring: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce, Leonid Kinskey, June Vincent, Ray Collins, Andrew Tombes, Thomas Gomez, Clara Blandick
A shipboard romance between Mike Bradley (Clark Gable) and Diane Lovering (Joan Crawford) is rekindled while she waits for her lover to get his divorce.
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 The Corsican Brothers movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Akim Tamiroff, Ruth Warrick, J.
Review: Siamese-twins Mario and Lucien are separated by Dr. Paoli (Warner) shortly before their parents are murdered by evil Colonna (Tamiroff).
One boy is sent to Paris and the other grows up in the Corsican mountains.
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 ToxicUniverse.com - Douglas Sirk - 1946 - A Scandal in Paris Movies Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
We then see Sanders stretched out in jail reading Casanova's memoirs, his cellmate is Akim Tamiroff.
Shortly after escaping from prison, Sanders and Tamiroff are asked to pose for a church portrait of St. George and the dragon.
Sirk can stage his climax without resorting to jagged editing or camera tricks, but he is not afraid of stylistic flourishes, some of which approach and exceed eccentricity.
www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10005273   (996 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - Pardon My Past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Heading to a small Wisconsin town, they meet with a cool welcome as MacMurray is mistaken for a local playboy who is in debt to half the town, particularly Tamiroff and his thugs.
MacMurray gets caught up in the devious machinations of his alter-ego's family, not to mention his double's wife, who is anything but happy with her husband's philandering.
Harry Davenport, William Demarest, Douglass Dumbrille, Rita Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Akim Tamiroff
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. -- Byron Paul - DVD
He befriends a chimp who is part of the space program and long thought to be lost at sea.
Soon he meets his girl Wednesday (Nancy Kwan), and the duo is chased by her tribal chieftain father (Akim Tamiroff) who wants his daughter to marry Crusoe.
Only the popularity of Dick Van Dyke from his television show and his wonderful performance in Mary Poppins could attribute for the $8 million this misfire brought in at the box office.
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 The Ford Show - Season Two
Script Notes: One of the top five Ford Shows ever produced, this March 20th, 1958 show featured appearances by two of the silver screen's greatest character actors of the day; Miyoshi Umeki and Akim Tamiroff.
A veteran of 100's of films Tamiroff was one of the great villains of the day, and Umeki was still celebrating her Academy Award Nomination for Sayonara when she joined Ernie for this Ford Show Classic.
Highlights: Ernie and Miyoshi do an old soft-tabi, and join Akim for a...well...an memorable version of 'You Are My Sunshine'.
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 Panic Button movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
She has reportedly said, "Not for all the money in the world.
Mel Brooks took the plot from this film and made "The Producers," which was much better.
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker, Jayne Mansfield, Mike Connors, Akim Tamiroff; DIRECTED BY: George Sherman.
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