Frederic M Malatesta (1889-1952) was an Italian-born actor who began working in the American film industry in 1915. He appeared in around 100 feature films and many silent shorts.
Malatesta played Dick in Mary Pickford’s Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) and appeared in Lubitsch’s Forbidden Paradise (1924). Later on, he could be seen in A Farewell to Arms (1932), The Thin Man (1934), Ford’s Mary of Scotland (1936), Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) and Four Men and a Prayer (1938), and The Mark of Zorro (1940).
Three MGM musicals feature Fred Malatesta: Student Tour, The Merry Widow and A Night at the Opera.
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