Editing Akim Tamiroff (section)

== Film and television career ==
[[File:Touch of Evil-Akim Tamiroff2.JPG|thumb|right|Tamiroff in ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' (1958)]]

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 appeared in ''[[The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film)|The Lives of a Bengal Lancer]]''. He also appeared in the lavish epic ''[[China Seas (film)|China Seas]]'' in 1935 with [[Clark Gable]], [[Wallace Beery]], [[Jean Harlow]], [[Rosalind Russell]] and [[Robert Benchley]]. The following year, he was cast in the titular role in ''[[The General Died at Dawn]]''. He appeared in the 1937 musical ''[[High, Wide, and Handsome]]'' with [[Irene Dunne]] and [[Randolph Scott]], and the 1938 proto-noir ''[[Dangerous to Know]]'' opposite [[Anna May Wong]], frequently singled out as his best role.<ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Susan |author-link=Susan King (journalist) |date=August 26, 2012 |title=Cinecon film festival unearths some old treasures |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2012-aug-26-la-et-mn-cinecon-festival-classic-hollywood-20120827-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref>

In the following decade, he appeared in such films as ''[[The Buccaneer (1938 film)|The Buccaneer]]'' (1938) with [[Fredric March]], ''[[The Great McGinty]]'' (1940), ''[[The Corsican Brothers (1941 film)|The Corsican Brothers]]'' (1941), ''[[Tortilla Flat (film)|Tortilla Flat]]'' (1942) with [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Hedy Lamarr]] and [[John Garfield]], ''[[Five Graves to Cairo]]'' (1943) with [[Erich von Stroheim]] as [[Field Marshal]] [[Erwin Rommel]], [[Frank Borzage]]'s ''[[His Butler's Sister]]'' (1943), ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1943) with [[Gary Cooper]] and [[Ingrid Bergman]],<ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Susan |date=September 1, 1995 |title=HOME ENTERTAINMENT : New 'Bell' Tolls With Original Luster |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-01-ca-41350-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref> for which he received another Oscar nomination,<ref name="nyt" /> and [[Preston Sturges]]' ''[[The Miracle of Morgan's Creek]]'' (1944). Though ethnically [[Armenian people|Armenian]], his many character roles included such ethnicities as Russian, Mexican, Chinese, Italian, French, German, Greek, Egyptian, Polish, Turkish, Malayan, Tartar, Romani, and Jewish.

In later years, Tamiroff appeared in ''[[Ocean's 11 (1960 film)|Ocean's 11]]'' (1960) with [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Dean Martin]]'s [[Rat Pack]], ''[[Topkapi (film)|Topkapi]]'' (1964) with [[Peter Ustinov]] and [[Melina Mercouri]], ''Lord Jim'' with Peter O’Toole and ''[[Alphaville (film)|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) with [[Charlton Heston]], ''[[The Trial (1962 film)|The Trial]]'' (1962), and as [[Sancho Panza]] in Welles's unfinished version of ''[[Don Quixote (unfinished film)|Don Quixote]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|author-link=Todd McCarthy|date=May 19, 1992|title=Don Quijote de Orson Welles Don Quixote of Orson Welles|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/1992/film/reviews/don-quijote-de-orson-welles-don-quixote-of-orson-welles-1200429671/|access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Lim|first=Dennis|date=August 17, 2008|title='Quixote' eerily like Welles' life|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-17-ca-second17-story.html|access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref>