Itzhak Perlman
Actor
Born August 31, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]
Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher. Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and at President Barack Obama's inauguration. He has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has received 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and four Emmy Awards. Perlman was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv. His parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman, were Jewish natives of Poland and had independently emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) in the mid-1930s before they met and later married. Perlman contracted polio at age four and has walked using leg braces and crutches since then and plays the violin while seated. As of 2018, he uses crutches or an electric Amigo scooter for mobility.
Filmography
My Music: Classical Rewind
Self
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Self
Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy
Self
Music by John Williams
Self - Violinist
Before
Drake
Earl.
Self
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Self - Guest
Here Today
Himself
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Self
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
The Very Best of Victor Borge, Vol. 2
Host
Itzhak
Self
A John Williams Celebration
Self
Orchestra of Exiles
Self
Beethoven - Triple Concerto Symphony No. 6
Self - Conductor
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Self
Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen Of Cremona
Self
A Tribute to Victor Borge
Himself
Visions of Israel
Host
The Huberman Festival
Self - Violin
We Want the Light
Self
The Legendary Victor Borge
Host
Fantasia 2000
Self - Host
Music of the Heart
Self
Wären nicht die Frauen
Everyone Says I Love You
Self
Small Wonders
Self
Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy
Self
The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration
Self
Schindler's List
Beethoven/Brahms - Violin Concertos (Perlman, Barenboim)
Self
Perlman in Russia
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
American Masters
Self
Love, Sidney
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Eugene Ormandy / Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky
Self
Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist
Self
Previn and the Pittsburgh
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Great Performances
Self
The Trout
Self - Violinist
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self