Joseph Calleia
Joseph Calleia
Maltese-born character actor Joseph Calleila first came to prominence as a concert singer in England and Europe. He made his screen bow in 1935's Public Hero Number 1, playing the first of many gangsters. Usually a villain, Calleila often leavened his screen perfidy with a subtle sense of humor, notably as the masked bandit who motivates the plot of the Mae West/W.C. Fields comedy My Little Chickadee (1940). In 1936, Calleila tried his hand at screenwriting with Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936), a fanciful western based on the criminal career of Joaquin Murietta. Joseph Calleila delivered some of his best and most varied screen performances in the last years of his film career, especially as the kindly Mexican priest in Disney's The Littlest Outlaw (1955) and the weary border-town detective in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Joseph Calleia:
- The Jungle Book with Sabu , John Qualen , Rosemary DeCamp , Ralph Byrd
- The Noose Hangs High with Lou Costello , Bud Abbott , Cathy Downs , Leon Errol , Mike Mazurki , Fritz Feld , Ellen Corby , James Flavin , Bess Flowers , Ben Hall , Lyle Latell , Paul Maxey , Isabel Randolph , Minerva Urecal , Herb Vigran , Ben Welden , Frank O'Connor , Benny Rubin
- Algiers with Charles Boyer , Hedy Lamarr , Gene Lockhart , Johnny Downs , Ben Hall , Armand Kaliz , Leonid Kinskey , Paul Harvey , Stanley Fields , Alan Sr. Hale
- Branded with Alan Ladd , Mona Freeman , Charles Bickford , Robert Keith , Tom Tully , Milburn Stone , Frank McCarroll , Edward Sr. Peil
- The Gorilla with Anita Louise , Patsy Kelly , Lionel Atwill , Bela Lugosi , Wally Vernon , Paul Harvey , Ritz Brothers
- For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper , Ingrid Bergman , Akim Tamiroff , Katina Paxinou , Vladimir Sokoloff , Fortunio Bonanova , Victor Varconi , Duncan Renaldo , George Coulouris , Frank Lackteen , George Sorel , Alberto Morin , Yakima Canutt , Yvonne DeCarlo , Charles Bickford , Eduardo Ciannelli
- Marie Antoinette with Norma Shearer , Tyrone Power , John Barrymore , Robert Morley , Anita Louise , Joseph Schildkraut , Henry Stephenson , Henry Daniell , Scotty Beckett , Mae Busch , Cecil Cunningham , Harry Davenport , Albert Dekker , Barry Fitzgerald , Reginald Gardiner , Ben Hall , Ben Jr. Hendricks , Ruth Hussey , Frank Jaquet , Henry Kolker , Horace McMahon , Herbert Rawlinson , Buddy Roosevelt , Gustav vonSeyffertitz , Walter Walker , Ian Wolfe , George Zucco , Peter Bull
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