Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian-American actor. One of the premier character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tamiroff developed a prolific career despite his thick accent, appearing in at
Tamiroff in the Netherlands in 1964
1940, Tamiroff as Dominique You on original program for movie The Buccaneer, playing in a local cinema in Prilep, Macedonia (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
Tamiroff in Touch of Evil (1958)
Tamiroff in the trailer for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars. The screenplay was loosely based on Whit Masterson's novel Badge of Evil. The cast included Charlton He
Akim Tamiroff
…Alphaville (1965), Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) by Jesús Franco. He also had a long collaboration with Orson Welles: including Mr Arkadin (1955), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (1962), and as Sancho Panza in Welles's unfinished version of Don Quixote. Tamiroff's accepted birth year was 1899, although in at…
Theatrical release poster
Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil
Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan
Orson Welles (Quinlan), Victor Millan (Sanchez), Joseph Calleia (Menzies), and Charlton Heston (Vargas)