Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff (October 29, 1899, Tiflis, Georgia - September 17, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was a Russian actor. Trained at the Moscow Art Theatre, Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent.

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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.

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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.

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In later years, Tamiroff appeared in Touch of Evil, Ocean's Eleven, Topkapi, Alphaville and After the Fox.

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The Corsican Brothers Akim Tamiroff Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1941