From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff Russian Аким Михайлович Тамиров 29 October 1899 17 September 1972 Tiflis Russian Empire now Tbilisi Georgia was an Armenian actor He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor He was born of Armenian ethnicity trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school He arrived in the US in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors and decided to stay Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent Description above from the Wikipedia article Akim Tamiroff licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia