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The Most Famous

ACTORS from Malta

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This page contains a list of the greatest Maltese Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 9,996 Actors, 1 of which were born in Malta. This makes Malta the birth place of the 128th most number of Actors behind Rwanda and Costa Rica.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Maltese Actors of all time. This list of famous Maltese Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Joseph Calleia (1897 - 1975)

With an HPI of 41.06, Joseph Calleia is the most famous Maltese Actor.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Joseph Calleia ( kə-LAY-ə; born Joseph Alexander Caesar Herstall Vincent Calleja, August 4, 1897 – October 31, 1975) 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. Calleia excelled as the villain in Hollywood films, but he fought against typecasting and created a succession of darkly mysterious characters edged with humor in films such as Algiers (1938), Five Came Back (1939), Golden Boy (1939), The Glass Key (1942) and Gilda (1946). During World War II, Calleia led the Malta War Relief organization in the United States, and toured for the USO and the Hollywood Victory Committee. After the war, he continued to work steadily in motion pictures and television, and he starred in the 1948 London stage premiere of Arthur Miller's Tony Award-winning play All My Sons. Calleia's performance in Orson Welles's 1958 film Touch of Evil is regarded as one of the better in his career.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as actors born between 1897 and 1897. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased actors include Joseph Calleia. As of April 2022, 1 new actors have been added to Pantheon including Joseph Calleia.

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