Joseph Calleia was a Maltese-born American actor and singer on the stage and in films, radio and television.
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Calleia in the Broadway stage production Small Miracle (1934-1935)
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Calleia received the 1938 National Board of Review Award for his performance as Inspector Slimane in Algiers (1938).[22]
Calleia as Pete Menzies in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), considered to be one of the best performances of his career
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Touch of Evil
Gilda
The Alamo
For Whom the Bell Tolls
After the Thin Man
Jungle Book
The Glass Key
Lured
Johnny Cool
The Caddy
Juarez
Algiers
Five Came Back
Marie Antoinette
Deadline at Dawn
Golden Boy
The Monster and the Girl
My Little Chickadee
Underwater!
The Gorilla
Branded
The Noose Hangs High
Sundown
Four Faces West
The Cross of Lorraine
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
The Light in the Forest
Serenade
Riffraff
The Conspirators
Wild Is the Wind
The Iron Mistress
Noose
The Beginning or the End
His Brother's Wife
Yankee Buccaneer
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Valentino
The Littlest Outlaw
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About this person
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.
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