Shlomo Tarshish (1947-2017) was a stage, film, and TV actor. Tarshish, a graduate of the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, also trained under theatre director and acting teacher, Nola Chilton.
Highlights of his film credits include Hasamba and the Black Handkerchief Gang (Joel Silberg, 1971), Eastern Wind (Daniel Wachsmann, 1982), Forced Testimony (Raphael Rebibo, 1984), Again, Forever (Oded Kotler, 19985), Million Dollar Madness (Naftali Alter, 1986), Gloves (Rafi Adar, 1986), On the Fringe (Ze’ev Revach, 1987), I Don’t Give a Damn (Shmuel Imberman, 1987), A Place by the Sea (Raphael Rebibo), Crossfire (‘esh tzolevet’) (Gideon Ganani, 1989), Doomsday (‘ha-derech l’ein harod’) (Doron Eran, 1990), Realtime (‘z’man emet’) (Uri Barbash, 1991), Time for Cherries (Haim Bouzaglo, 1991), Life According to Agfa (Assi Dayan, 1992), Beyond the Walls II (Uri Barbash, 1992), Tel Aviv Stories (Ayelet Menahemi & Nirit Yaron, 1992), The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (Enrique Rottenberg, 1993), No Names on the Doors (Nadav Levitan, 1997), and Six Million Pieces (Tzipi Trope, 2001).
Highlights of his TV series credits include Vanishing (‘he’almut’), Family and a Half (‘mishpacha vachetzi’), Bootcamp (‘tironoot’), and The Arbitrator. In 1989, Tarshish played the peddler in Haim Gil’s small screen adaptation of S.Y. Agnon’s story, The Lady and the Peddler.
Highlights of his stage credits include The Bacchanalian and The Merchant of Venice at the Cameri Theatre; The Shoemarker’s Holiday, The Rose Tattoo, Zinzana (Hebrew slang for ‘squad car’), Marius, and Master Class at Habima National Theatre, and Cherli Ka-Cherli, In the Jungle of Cities, and The Servant of Two Masters at the Khan Theatre.
Tarshish’s first wife was actor and director Neta Plotsky.
