Akim Tamiroff
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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.
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Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]
Birthday
27 October 1899
Ocean's Eleven
6.371
Touch of Evil
7.773
The Trial
7.4
Topkapi
6.443
Lord Jim
6.7
Alphaville
6.991
Don Quixote
6.1
The Gangster
4.7
The Black Tulip
6.3
For Whom the Bell Tolls
6.5
The Black Sleep
6.1
The Great McGinty
7
Five Graves to Cairo
6.94
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
6.8
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
7.1
Sadie McKee
6.8
The Corsican Brothers
6.8
Union Pacific
6.5
Fiesta
4.7
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
6.6
Mr. Arkadin
6.913
Anastasia
6.8
His Butler's Sister
7.1
The Soldier and the Lady
6.5
Chained
7
Can't Help Singing
5.1
High, Wide and Handsome
6
Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
5.6
North West Mounted Police
6.243
The Gay Deception
6.6
The Story of Louis Pasteur
6.8
The Winning Ticket
3.5
Black Magic
6.3
Our Husbands
5.7
Spawn of the North
5.7
New York Town
10
Desire
6.8
Tortilla Flat
5.4
This Way Please
5.5
Honeymoon in Bali
6.2
The Vulture
4
Dragon Seed
6.4
The Great Bank Robbery
6.3
Romanoff and Juliet
5.4
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
6
Great Catherine
5.5
The General Died at Dawn
6.2
Me and the Colonel
6.3
They Who Dare
5.5
The Buccaneer
6.5
The Reluctant Saint
7.6
Hotel Paradiso
5.3
A Scandal in Paris
6.2
Clear All Wires!
6.5
The Magnificent Fraud
0
Here Is My Heart
7
The Jungle Princess
6.1
Then Came Bronson
5.167
Outpost in Morocco
4.8
The Big Broadcast of 1936
5.4
Go Into Your Dance
7.5
Two-Fisted
7
Marquis de Sade: Justine
5.1
Desert Legion
6
Her Husband Lies
6
King of Chinatown
5.9
Paris Honeymoon
3
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
5.5
Reckless
5.3
Whom the Gods Destroy
5.5
Marco the Magnificent
5.4
The Captain Hates the Sea
6.5
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
0
Paris in Spring
5
The Devil's in Love
6
Panic Button
4.2
You Know What Sailors Are
4.2
China Seas
6.3
Storm at Daybreak
5.8
Seduction Of The South
6
Now and Forever
6.7
Untamed
4.3
The Great Gambini
6
Ride a Crooked Mile
0
A Rose for Everyone
4.5
Pardon My Past
7
The Liquidator
6.2
The Bacchantes
3.8
Invasion 1700
5.8
Relentless
6.2
Woman Trap
0
King of Gamblers
7
Breakdowns of 1936
0
Queen Christina
6.8
A Man Called Amen
3.5
After the Fox
6
The Way of All Flesh
4
The Last Judgment
6.3
Gabriel Over the White House
7.2
Desert Desperadoes
3
Disputed Passage
6
Fugitive Lovers
6
Straight Is the Way
5.5
The Scarlet Empress
6.9
Adultery Italian Style
5.9
Lady by Choice
6
Ursus and the Tartar Princess
4
The Widow
0
My Girl Tisa
0
Twenty Years After
6
Anthony Adverse
5.7
The Great Flirtation
3
Naughty Marietta
4.3
The Dolls
5.7
The Merry Widow
6.7
A Gangster From Brooklyn
0
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
6
Crime on a Summer Morning
6.5
La Classe américaine
7.683
Okay, America!
8
The Blue Panther
4.889
A Queen for Caesar
5
Death of a Jew
0
Black Fury
6.2
Reap the Wild Wind
6.469
Cartouche
5
La moglie di mio marito
5
Dangerous to Know
6.5