Sam Jaffe
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1891-03-10
Deathday 1984-03-24 (93 years old)
Place of Birth New York City, New York, U.S.
Also Known As Shalom "Sam" Jaffe, Shalom Jaffe
Sam Jaffe
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sam Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as Ben-Hur (1959) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). He may be best remembered for playing the title role in Gunga Din (1939), and the High Lama in Lost Horizon (1937). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Jaffe licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Gunga Din (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as El Gabacho
as Father Knickerbocker
as Dr. Hephaestus
as 1st Supreme Court Justice
as The Keeper
as Old Sam
as Issac Waldersack
as Papa
as Sam Jaffe - Party guest (uncredited)
as Gittelman
as Bookman
as Henry Willis
as Abe Stillman
as Mr. Berryman
as Old Whateley
as Bleum
as Brother Lilac Bailey (art forger)
as Père Joseph
as Dr. Singleton
as Technical Adviser (Shrink)
as Dr. Singleton
as Zoltan Zorba
as Jed Tolson
as Self
as David Zorba
as Louis Speckter
as Dr. William Graham
as Papa Mathews
as Old Man McKeen
as Simonides
as Henry Heusken
as Lazslo Lubasz
as Sam Cooper
as The Abbot
as Hal Ballew
as Self (uncredited)
as Prof. Jacob Barnhardt
as Sam Cooper
as Samuel Gower
as 1st Supreme Court Justice
as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
as Dr. Francis Kittridge Hunter
as Dr. Romley
as Professor Fred Lieberman
as Mayor Galimard
as Sam Jaffe
as Gunga Din
as High Lama
as Gregory Simonson
as Grand Duke Peter
Producer
as Producer
as Associate Producer