Antonio Moreno

Antonio Moreno ( born September 26, 1887 in Madrid, Spain, † February 15, 1967 in Beverly Hills, California ) was a Spanish actor and director of the silent film era and the 1950s.

Life

At the age of 14 years, Moreno moved to the U.S.. He lived in Massachusetts, where he finished his education. After the Williston Northampton School, he was a stage actor in regional theater productions. In 1912 he went to Hollywood. He signed with the Vitagraph Studios and began his career in short films. It was not until 1914, Moreno appeared in major films such as Judith of Bethulia, The Dust of Egypt, The Angel Factory and The First Law.

In the early 1920s, Moreno joined the theater group Cineplex Entertainment and here was one of the highest paid performers. In 1926, he starred opposite Greta Garbo in the film The Temptress on. The following year he was next to Clara Bow in the film It - Seeing the certain something.

Moreno married in 1923, the American Daisy Canfield Danziger, but already died 10 years later in a car accident.

With the advent of sound films in the late 1920s and the early 1930s, Moreno's career began in particular to decline because of his strong Spanish accent, so he started to play in Mexican films. During the early 1930s he also led some Mexican films, the director, so in the movie Santa frente al sol and Águilas mid-1930s, Moreno began his Hollywood career in roles as a character actor rebuild. The mid- 1940s and throughout the 1950s on he again had numerous roles, as in 1954 in the horror film The Creature from Amazon.

Moreno retired in the late 1950s by the Acting and died 1967 in Beverly Hills of a heart attack.

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