# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-calleia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:16:45.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-calleia"
name: "Joseph Calleia"
slug: "joseph-calleia"
description: "Joseph Calleia was a Maltese-born American actor and singer on the stage and in films, radio and television. After serving in the British Transport Service during World War I, he travelled to the United States and began his career on the stage, initially in musical comedy, but later in original Broadway productions such as Broadway (1926), The Front Page (1928), The Last Mile (1930), and Grand Hotel (1930). Calleia became a star with the play Small Miracle (1934), his first real role as a villain, and he was put under contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer."
tagline: "US-Maltese actor and singer (1897–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph-Calleia-1942.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1897-08-04"
deathDate: "1975-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.56800666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130407/"
    handle:    "nm0130407"
sources:
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    title: "Джозеф Каллея"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョセフ・カレイア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჯოზეფ კალეა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조지프 컬레이아"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Calleia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Calleia"
    title: "Joseph Calleia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Calleia"
    title: "Joseph Calleia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Calleia"
    title: "Joseph Calleia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%8F%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_(%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%91%D1%80)"
    title: "Каллея, Джозеф (актёр)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Calleia"
    title: "Joseph Calleia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1604757"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33747"
    title: "Joseph Calleia"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump