- Born Name: Akim Tamiroff
- Birthday: 1899-10-29 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Tamara Shayne (?-1972) (his death)
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Akim Tamiroff, This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate. (July 2010)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.Tamiroffs 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. He appeared in the 1937 musical High, Wide, and Handsome and the 1938 proto-noir Dangerous to Know opposite Anna May Wong, frequently singled out as his best role.In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer (1938), The Great McGinty (1940), The Corsican Brothers (1941), Tortilla Flat (1942), Five Graves to Cairo (1943), His Butlers Sister (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and The Miracle of Morgans Creek (1944). In later years, Tamiroff appeared in Oceans Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) and had a long collaboration with Orson Welles including Touch of Evil (1958), Mr Arkadin (1955), The Trial (1962) and Welles unfinished version of Don Quixote, where he played Sancho Panza.While Tamiroff may not be a household name now, his malapropistic performance as the boss in The Great McGinty inspired the cartoon character Boris Badenov, the male half of the villainous husband-and-wife team Boris and Natasha on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. He was also spoofed in a 1969 episode of the TV show H.R. Pufnstuf entitled The Stand-in in which a frog named Akim Toadanoff directs a movie on Living Island.Tamiroff died on September 17, 1972 from cancer. He was mentioned in J. D. Salingers Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut (1942 New Yorker)[edit] Partial filmographyOkay, America! (1932) (uncredited film debut)Queen Christina (1933) (uncredited)The Scarlet Empress (1934) (uncredited)The Merry Widow (1934) (uncredited)The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)Naughty Marietta (1935)China Seas (1935)The Gay Deception (1935)The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)Desire (1936)Anthony Adverse (1936)The General Died at Dawn (1936)High, Wide, and Handsome (1937)The Buccaneer (1938)Dangerous to Know (1938)Spawn of the North (1938)Union Pacific (1939)The Way of All Flesh (1940)The Great McGinty (1940)North West Mounted Police (1940)New York Town (1941)The Corsican Brothers (1941)Tortilla Flat (1942)Five Graves to Cairo (1943)His Butlers Sister (1943)For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)The Miracle of Morgans Creek (1944)The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)Dragon Seed (1944)Cant Help Singing (1944)Pardon My Past (1945)A Scandal in Paris (1946)The Gangster (1947)They Who Dare (1954)You Know What Sailors Are (1954)Mr. Arkadin (1955)The Black Sleep (1956)Anastasia (1956)Yangtse Incident (1957)Touch of Evil (1958)Me and the Colonel (1958)Oceans Eleven (1960)Romanoff and Juliet (1961)The Reluctant Saint (1962)The Trial (1962)Topkapi (1964)Lord Jim (1965)Alphaville (1965)Hotel Paradiso (1966)Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)After the Fox (1966)Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)100 Rifles (1969)Don Quixote (unfinished, filmed between 1955–1969)[edit] References[edit] External linksBiography portalWikimedia Commons has media related to: Akim TamiroffAkim Tamiroff at the Internet Movie DatabaseAkim Tamiroff at WFMUAkim Tamiroff at the TCM Movie DatabaseAkim Tamiroff at the Internet Broadway DatabaseAkim Tamiroff at Katzs Film EncyclopediaAkim Tamiroff at Great Character ActorsAkim Tamiroff at Find a Gravev · d · eGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureAkim Tamiroff (1943) · Barry Fitzgerald (1944) · J. Carrol Naish (1945) · Clifton Webb (1946) · Edmund Gwenn (1947) · Walter Huston (1948) · James Whitmore (1949) · Edmund Gwenn (1950) · Peter Ustinov (1951) · Millard Mitchell (1952) · Frank Sinatra (1953) · Edmond OBrien (1954) · Arthur Kennedy (1955) · Earl Holliman (1956) · Red Buttons (1957) · Burl Ives (1958) · Stephen Boyd (1959) · Sal Mineo (1960)Complete List · (1943–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present)v · d · ePreston SturgesBroadwayThe Guinea Pig (writer & prod,1929) · Strictly Dishonorable (writer,1929) · Recapture (writer,1930) · The Well of Romance (musical:book & lyrics,1930) · Child of Manhattan (writer,1932)1930sThe Big Pond (dialogue,1930) · La grande mare (dialogue,1930) · Fast and Loose (addl dialogue,1930) · Strictly Dishonorable (prev. play,1931) · They Just Had to Get Married (uncredited,1932) · Child of Manhattan (prev. play,1933) · The Power and the Glory (writer & dialogue dir,1933) · The Invisible Man (uncredited writer,1933) · Twentieth Century (uncredited,1934) · Thirty-Day Princess (writer,1934) · We Live Again (adapter,1934) · Imitation of Life (uncredited writer,1934) · The Good Fairy (writer,1935) · Diamond Jim (writer,1935) · Next Time We Love (uncredited,1936) · Love Before Breakfast (uncredited,1936) · One Rainy Afternoon (lyrics,1936) · Hotel Haywire (writer,1937) · Easy Living (writer,1937) · College Swing (uncredited writer,1938) · Port of Seven Seas (writer,1938) · If I Were King (writer,1938) · Never Say Die (writer,1939)1940sRemember the Night (writer,1940) · Broadway Melody of 1940 (uncredited,1940) · The Great McGinty (writer & dir,1940) · Christmas in July (writer & dir,1940) · The Lady Eve (writer & dir,1941) · New York Town (uncredited,1941) · Sullivans Travels (writer, dir & prod,1941) · Safeguarding Military Information (writer,1942) · I Married a Witch (unc. prod,1942) · The Palm Beach Story (writer & dir,1942) · Star Spangled Rhythm (actor,1942) · The Miracle of Morgans Creek (writer, dir, prod, lyrics,1944) · Hail the Conquering Hero (writer, dir, prod, music, lyrics,1944) · The Great Moment (writer, dir & unc. prod,1944) · Ill Be Yours (writer,1947) · The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (writer, dir & unc. prod,1947) · Unfaithfully Yours (writer, dir & prod,1948) · The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (writer, dir & prod,1949)1950sVendetta (unc. writer & unc. dir,1950) · Strictly Dishonorable (prev. play,1951) · The French, They Are a Funny Race (writer & dir,1955) · The Birds and the Bees (prev. screenplay,1956) · Paris Holiday (actor,1958) · Rock-A-Bye Baby (prev. screenplay,1958)Broadway &posthumousMake a Wish (musical:book,1951) · Carnival in Flanders (musical:book & dir.,1953) · Unfaithfully Yours (prev. screenplay,1984)ActorsUnofficial stock company: George Anderson · Al Bridge · Georgia Caine · Chester Conklin · Jimmy Conlin · William Demarest · Robert Dudley · Byron Foulger · Robert Greig · Harry Hayden · Esther Howard · Arthur Hoyt · J. 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Moore · Frank Moran · Jack Norton · Franklin Pangborn · Emory Parnell · Victor Potel · Dewey Robinson · Harry Rosenthal · Julius Tannen · Max Wagner · Robert Warwick · Others associated with Sturges: Sig Arno · Luis Alberni · Eric Blore · Eddie Bracken · Brian Donlevy · Porter Hall · Margaret Hamilton · Edgar Kennedy · Joel McCrea · Lionel Stander · Akim Tamiroff · Rudy Vallée · Raymond WalburnPersondataNameTamiroff, AkimAlternative namesShort descriptionActorDate of birth1899-10-29Place of birthTiflis, Georgia, Russian EmpireDate of death1972-09-17Place of deathPalm Springs, CaliforniaRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akim_TamiroffCategories: 1899 births | 1972 deaths | American actors | American people of Armenian descent | Cancer deaths in California | Georgian Armenians | People from Tbilisi | Russian Armenians | Soviet immigrants to the United StatesHidden categories: Articles with hCards | Articles lacking in-text citations from July 2010 | All articles lacking in-text 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