Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Abraham Sofaer (October 1, 1896 – January 21, 1988) was a stage actor of Burmese-Jewish descent who became a familiar supporting player on film and television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar). Sofaer's strong features and resonant voice complemented the many exotic character parts he played. He began his acting career on the London stage in 1921, but soon was alternating between London and Broadway. By the 1930s, h...
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Complete Filmography
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
as Governor
Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile n...
Chisum
1970
as Chief White Buffalo
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
Justine
1969
as Proprietor
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, ...
Che!
1969
as Pablo Rojas
Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually r...
Head
1968
as Swami
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vig...
Journey to the Center of Time
1967
as Dr. (Doc) Gordon
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000...
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Joseph of Arimathaea
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...
4 for Texas
1963
as Pulaski
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 ...
Twice-Told Tales
1963
as Prof. Pietro Baglioni
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the...
Captain Sindbad
1963
as Galgo
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is bein...
Taras Bulba
1962
as The Abbot
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi...
Hitler
1962
as Morris Kaplan
Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who near...
The Sad Sack
1957
as Hassim
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tan...
Omar Khayyam
1957
as Tutush
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they...
Not One Shall Die
1957
as David Lessing
A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core c...
The First Texan
1956
as Don Carlos - magistrate
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any ...
Bhowani Junction
1956
as Surabhai
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Out of the Clouds
1955
as The Indian
A day following workers at an airport
Elephant Walk
1954
as Appuhamy
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Tay...
The Naked Jungle
1954
as Incacha
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
His Majesty O'Keefe
1954
as Fatumak, Medicine Man
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. ...
Judgment Deferred
1952
as Chancellor
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-...
Quo Vadis
1951
as Paul
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951
as Judge
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hend...
Cairo Road
1950
as Commandant
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
Christopher Columbus
1949
as Luis de Santangel
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical...
Calling Paul Temple
1948
as Dr. Charles Kohima
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
1947
as Benjamin Disraeli
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the...
Trilby
1947
as Svengali
Single-camera theater production of Trilby performed live and broadcast on the BBC. Intended to evoke the highly successful Trilby stage plays of the ...
Dual Alibi
1947
as French Judge
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.
The Great Promise
1947
Directed by Joseph Lejtes.
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
as The Judge
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But t...
Freedom Radio
1941
as Heini
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. H...
Crook's Tour
1940
as Ali
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of G...
Rembrandt
1936
as Dr. Menasseh
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt...
The House of the Spaniard
1936
as Vidal
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t ad...
Things to Come
1936
as The Jew (uncredited)
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space trav...
Nell Gwyn
1934
as (uncredited)
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent comp...
The Admiral's Secret
1934
as Don Pablo y Gonzales
A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits.
The Wandering Jew
1933
as Zapportas (Phase IV)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His retur...
High Finance
1933
as Myers
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and ...
Karma
1933
as Holy Man
The simple plot has the maharani (Devika Rani) fall in love with the neighbouring prince (Rai) despite her father's disapproval. It is presented as an...
Ask Beccles
1933
as Baki
A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
Little Miss Nobody
1933
as Mr. Beal
The Flag Lieutenant
1932
as Meheti Salos
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
Insult
1932
as Ali Ben Achmed
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Flying Squad
1932
as Li Yoseph
The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
The House Opposite
1932
as Fahmy
A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.
Stamboul
1931
as Mahmed Pasha
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.
Dreyfus
1931
as Dubois
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...