Sam Jaffe
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, teacher, musician and engineer (1891-1984)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1893-03-10
- Died
- 1984-03-24
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Spiritual Guide to Fes
- Lost Horizon
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, U.S.
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…
Known for
- On Location with Gunga Din — Gunga Din (archive footage)2004
- On the Line — El Gabacho1984
- Nothing Lasts Forever — Father Knickerbocker1984
- Foul Play1981
- Battle Beyond the Stars — Dr. Hephaestus1980
- Gideon's Trumpet — 1st Supreme Court Justice1980
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — The Keeper1979
- Flying High1978
- The Bionic Woman1976
- Medical Story — Dr. Gershowitz1975
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 114
- Total plays
- 218
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 12,653x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,493x
- <i>Planck</i>2015 results
· 2016 · cited 9,728x
via Crossref · CC0
Key dates
- Born
- 10 March 1893
- Died
- 24 March 1984
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sam
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Beverly Hills
- Spouse
- Bettye Ackerman
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1891 births1984 deaths20th-century American Jews20th-century American male actorsAmerican Ashkenazi JewsAmerican male film actorsAmerican male stage actorsAmerican male television actorsAmerican people of Ukrainian-Jewish descentCity College of New York alumniColumbia University alumniDeaths from cancer in California