Tom Conti
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| Born | Thomas Conti 22 November 1941 Paisley, Scotland |
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Tom Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning actor, theatre director, and novelist.
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[edit] Biography
Born Thomas Conti to an Italian father and an Irish Catholic mother in Paisley, Renfrewshire, he was educated at Hamilton Park School, an independent fee-paying Catholic boys' school in Glasgow, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Conti began working with the Dundee Repertory in 1959. He appeared on Broadway in Whose Life is it Anyway? in 1979. In London he played the lead in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell at the Garrick Theatre.
Conti also is an accomplished film and television actor. Besides taking the leading role in the 1978 TV version of Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, he appeared in the Princess and the Pea episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guested on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of car advertisements in the UK.
Conti has appeared in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben, American Dreamer, Shirley Valentine, Saving Grace and Dangerous Parking.
Conti's book The Doctor, about a former Secret Operations pilot with Intelligence Services, was published in 2004.
Conti has been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson since 1967, and their daughter Nina is an actress and ventriloquist.[1]
[edit] Work
[edit] Film
- O Jerusalem (Oct-2006)
- Rabbit Fever
- Derailed (Nov-2005)
- Paid
- The Enemy
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Feb-1999)
- Out of Control
- Something to Believe In (May-1998)
- Sub Down (Nov-1997)
- The Inheritance (Apr-1997)
- Someone Else's America (Sep-1995)
- Caccia Alla Vedova
- Shirley Valentine (Aug-1989)
- Roman Holiday (Dec-1987)
- That Summer of White Roses
- Two Brothers Running
- Beyond Therapy (Jun-1987)
- The Quick and the Dead (Feb-1987)
- Miracles (1986)
- Saving Grace (Oct-1985)
- Heavenly Pursuits (1985)
- American Dreamer (Oct-1984)
- Reuben, Reuben (Dec-1983)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Jun-1983)
- Full Circle (Sep-1977)
- The Duellists (Aug-1977)
- Gallileo
- Flame
[edit] Television
- Donovan
- I Was a Rat
- Deadline
- Cosby
- Friends, The One After Ross Says Rachel, and The One With Ross's Wedding
- The Inheritance
- The Wright Verdicts
- The Old Boy Network
- Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
- Fatal Judgement
- Roman Holiday
- The Dumb Waiter
- The Quick and the Dead
- Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
- Princess and the Pea
- The Wall
- Rosemary's baby
- Blade on the Feather
- The Norman Conquests
- The Glittering Prizes
- Sam
- Barlow at Large
- Z Cars
- Adam Smith
- Thirty-Minute Theatre - Revolutions: Fidel Castro
- Boy Meets Girl
[edit] Stage
- The Real Thing
- Chapter Two
- Present Laughter
- The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
- Romantic Comedy
- They're Playing Our Song
- The Devil's Disciple
- Jesus, My Boy (1998-99)
[edit] Stage directing
[edit] Awards
- National Board of Review for Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)
- Academy Award nomination as Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben)
- Golden Globe nominations for Reuben, Reuben and Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
- Tony Award for Best Actor (Whose Life Is It Anyway?)
- Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play ('Whose Life is it Anyway?)
- Variety Club Award for Best Actor (Whose Life is it Anyway?)
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