Personal Info
Alexander Elihu Tenenholtz
Tenen Holtz
Acting
Biography
Elihu "Elye" Tenenholtz was born in the Russian hamlet of Azran, near the city of Rovne, in 1887 and came to the US at the age of ten. His first appearance in amateur Yiddish theatricals occurred in 1903, in staged readings of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, the first person to do that. He augmented his theater appearances by writing for and editing a Yiddish satirical magazine under the pen-name "Moishe McCarthy". In 1916 he made the leap to the professional Yiddish stage and, befriended by the great doyenne Bessie Thomashevsky, helped her pen her memoirs, the first publication d…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Bridal Suite
as Hotel Runner at Train Station
Let Freedom Ring
as Hunky (uncredited)
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Henry Goes Arizona
as Boris - a Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Cipher Bureau
as Simon Herrick
International Crime
as Starkhov
Nothing Sacred
as Tearful Waiter (uncredited)
British Agent
as Lenin
The Notorious Sophie Lang
as Bystander (uncredited)
Hollywood Mystery
as Benjamin Vogel
