Fred Malatesta

Fred Malatesta

Born: April 17, 1889
Died: April 8, 1952
in Naples, Italy
Fred Malatesta (April 18, 1889 – April 8, 1952) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1915 and 1941. He was born in Naples, Italy, and died in Burbank, California.

Movies for Fred Malatesta...

Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: Spanish Mechanic (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Sentry (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Half-breed Archer
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Horserace Loser at Fiesta (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Genoa
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Native Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Señor Salas (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Bridal Suite
Title: Bridal Suite
Character: Cassini - in Shipboard Brawl
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Shipboard Photographer (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Third Dockworker (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Italian Gendarme at the 'Maria Ann'
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: Jewel Merchant (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Port of Seven Seas
Title: Port of Seven Seas
Character: Bird Seller
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
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International Settlement
Title: International Settlement
Character: Italian Officer
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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The Black Doll
Title: The Black Doll
Character: Esteban, the butler
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: Majordomo (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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The Bride Wore Red
Title: The Bride Wore Red
Character: Rudi's Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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The Gold Racket
Title: The Gold Racket
Character: Senor Ricardo
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: French Pickpocket
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Dodsworth
Title: Dodsworth
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Headwaiter
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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Okay, José
Title: Okay, José
Character: Officer
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.
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The Crusades
Title: The Crusades
Character: William, King of Sicily
Released: August 21, 1935
Type: Movie
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: French Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Perfectly Mismated
Title: Perfectly Mismated
Released: November 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: French Manager
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Joe - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Beer and Pretzels
Title: Beer and Pretzels
Character: Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos and a few musical numbers ensue.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Hotel Arcady Manager
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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Trouble in Paradise
Title: Trouble in Paradise
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Gendarme
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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Get That Girl
Title: Get That Girl
Character: Dr. Sandro Tito
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
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Wings of Adventure
Title: Wings of Adventure
Character: Don Ricardo Diaz San Pablo La Pandella, 'La Panthera'
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency landing in Mexico and find themselves in the hands of La Panthera, a notorious bandit who wishes to overthrow the government and become president of a new republic. Manuel, his chief henchman, obliges them to collect the booty in a robbery, but Kent manages to meet María Valdez, a prisoner--held for marriage to the insurgent leader--who implores his aid. Kent and Skeets are arrested for the robbery and sentenced to death.
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The Peacock Fan
Title: The Peacock Fan
Character: Thomas Elton
Released: August 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.
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The Wagon Show
Title: The Wagon Show
Character: Vicarino
Released: February 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'.
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Eve's Love Letters
Title: Eve's Love Letters
Character: Mr. X's Accomplice (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the comic mind and performing talents of Stan Laurel, who plays her butler, that make this two-reel short shine.
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Get 'Em Young
Title: Get 'Em Young
Character: the executor
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Title: Bardelys the Magnificent
Character: Castelrous
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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Long Fliv the King
Title: Long Fliv the King
Character: Hamir of Uvocado - the Prime Minister
Released: June 13, 1926
Type: Movie
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
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Kiki
Title: Kiki
Character: Cheron, the Tenor (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
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Madame Mystery
Title: Madame Mystery
Character: Man of a Thousand Eyes
Released: March 12, 1926
Type: Movie
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
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Without Mercy
Title: Without Mercy
Character: Ducrow
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. Orme is an honest man, but Craven is on the shady side. For campaign money, he borrows money from an equally shady establishment called Gordon, Ltd. Orme's sweetheart, Margaret Garth, becomes infatuated with Craven, much to the dismay of her mother, Enid.
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The Reckless Age
Title: The Reckless Age
Released: August 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
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Broadway or Bust
Title: Broadway or Bust
Character: Count Dardnelle
Released: June 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Virginia Redding inherits a fortune and goes to New York, leaving behind her suitor Dave, a rancher. Good fortune strikes Dave when radium deposits are discovered on his ranch, and he and his partner sell out, go to New York, and become society sensations.
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The Night Hawk
Title: The Night Hawk
Character: José Valdez
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enough he heads for the more comfortable expanse of the open spaces.
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Forbidden Paradise
Title: Forbidden Paradise
Character: French ambassador
Released: January 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Dick
Released: September 15, 1921
Type: Movie
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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The Mask
Title: The Mask
Character: Señor Enrico Keralio
Released: June 17, 1921
Type: Movie
The Mask 1921 film
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All Dolled Up
Title: All Dolled Up
Character: Amilo Rodolpho
Released: March 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prevent a million-dollar robbery of the same woman. With the man of her dreams, who helped her foil the robberies, she is "adopted" by Eva.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Ralli
Released: December 31, 1920
Type: Movie
Society matron Mrs. Fanshaw Renwick entertains lavishly at her posh home. Living with her are her two daughters, Phillipa, a madcap eighteen-year-old, and her married sister Errica who is having an affair with Ralli, a designing South American. When Captain Chantry arrives with an impressive letter of introduction, Mrs. Renwick welcomes him while Phillipa falls in love with him. On the night of the masquerade party, Phillipa induces Chantry to take her to the party in disguise, because her mother will not permit her to attend. The captain, in reality a jewel thief, readily complies, believing it will provide him with the perfect opportunity to steal Mrs. Renwick's famous pearls.
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The Sins of Rosanne
Title: The Sins of Rosanne
Character: Syke Ravenal
Released: November 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine La Rue) promised to cure her. That she did, but she also worked some voodoo on the child, who, as a grown up now displays a powerful desire for diamonds and the ability to throw evil curses on those who displease her.
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The Challenge of the Law
Title: The Challenge of the Law
Character: Jules Lafitte
Released: October 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...
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The Best of Luck
Title: The Best of Luck
Character: Lanzana
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affairs with Lord Glenayr (Jack Holt), whom she has never met. She encounters Duke Lanzana (Fred Malatesta), who sees her as a way to pay off his mounting debts. He captures her and then heads to a nearby cape to steal a buried treasure that actually should belong to the MacLeods.
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The Devil's Trail
Title: The Devil's Trail
Character: Dubec
Released: June 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted Police pursuing him by killing the wife of post commander Sergeant Delisle and abducting his teen-aged daughter Nonette.
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Full of Pep
Title: Full of Pep
Character: General Lopanzo
Released: May 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the station. Since her train soon leaves, all Jimmy learns about her is information on her luggage: her initials and destination, the Central American republic Santo Dinero.
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Sherlock Holmes
Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: 'Lightfoot' McTague
Released: June 30, 1916
Type: Movie
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)