Akim Tamiroff (October 29, 1899, Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia - September 17, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was an actor 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. [1][2] Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent. is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... View of Tiflis from the Grounds of Saint David Church, ca. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Palm Springs is a famed Riverside County, California, desert resort city, approximately 110 miles east of Los Angeles. ... The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1897 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. ... ...

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. 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. Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1930 book, a memoir by Francis Yeats-Brown (1886-1944), and a 1935 movie loosely adapted from the book. ... The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 film which tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... High, Wide, and Handsome (2006) is a film comedy about NASCAR racing that is currently in production. ... Dangerous to Know is a 1938 crime film starring Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, and Anthony Quinn. ... Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961) was the first notable Chinese American Hollywood actress. ...

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. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Plot Summary (1939)One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. ... For other uses, see Tortilla Flat (disambiguation). ... Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. ... For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway. ... The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novel by American author Thornton Wilder. ... The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy. ... The Miracle of Morgans Creek poster The Miracle of Morgans Creek is a 1944 comedy film about a girl named Trudy Kockenlocker who wakes up one morning after a wild night with a group of soldiers to find herself pregnant and married. ...

In later years, Tamiroff appeared in Touch of Evil, Me and the Colonel, Ocean's Eleven, Topkapi, Alphaville and After the Fox. Touch of Evil (1958) is considered one of the last examples of film noir in the genres classic era (from the early 1940s until the late 1950s). ... Me and the Colonel is a 1958 film based on a play by Franz Werfel. ... Oceans Eleven is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. ... Ustinov, Schell, Mercouri Topkapi is a 1964 heist film by directed by American Jules Dassin. ... Alphaville is: A German music trio. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

While Tamiroff may not be a household name in the present day, his malapropistic performance as the boss in 1940's "The Great McGinty" inspired a character that is: Boris Badinov, the male counterpart of the villainous husband-and-wife team Boris and Natasha on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Tamiroff died on September 17, 1972, from cancer. Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ...

External links

• Akim Tamiroff at the Internet Movie Database
• Akim Tamiroff at WFMU
• Akim Tamiroff at the TCM Movie Database
• Akim Tamiroff at the Internet Broadway Database