Date of birth: 1889-04-17
Place of birth: Naples, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frederic M. Malatesta, Frederic Malatesta, Fred M. Malatesta
Fred Malatesta (April 18, 1889 – April 8, 1952) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1915 and 1941. He was born in Naples, Italy, and died in Burbank, California.
1936-02-05
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by
1936-09-23
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the
1920-12-31
Society matron Mrs. Fanshaw Renwick entertains lavishly at her posh home. Living with her are her tw
1925-10-04
In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. O
1921-06-17
The Mask 1921 film
1920-07-01
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affai
1920-10-10
A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...
1924-08-16
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is
1919-06-16
Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted
1926-10-31
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
1924-06-09
Virginia Redding inherits a fortune and goes to New York, leaving behind her suitor Dave, a rancher.
1926-06-13
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must fi
1921-09-15
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the
1929-08-01
A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second
1938-01-31
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is abou
1919-05-26
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company,
1932-04-15
A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium whe
1928-02-19
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous com
1924-01-02
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirato
1930-08-01
Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency lan
1941-05-30
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who neverth
1926-04-04
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job
1924-02-17
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enoug
1921-03-28
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklac
1938-07-27
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that
1937-12-03
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
1939-04-07
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to
1939-06-10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f
1935-08-21
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
1940-09-27
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they
1938-07-01
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius.
1937-02-26
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours
1938-11-25
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m
1938-02-04
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers
1939-05-26
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
1916-06-30
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of
1927-05-28
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short.
1934-05-25
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f
1940-11-08
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou
1940-10-22
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave
1934-10-05
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
1940-11-08
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa
1940-03-22
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
1940-10-11
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine h
1926-03-12
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts
1935-12-07
A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.
1932-06-24
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr
1933-05-26
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a
1933-08-26
Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working
1932-10-30
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company
1934-11-12
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.
1938-10-28
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and
1934-12-14
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectanc
1920-11-07
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she becam
1926-09-30
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could w
1937-10-08
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
1937-04-10
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gan
1923-07-15
1924-09-08
Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is
1936-08-26
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymou
1916-08-01
Jimmy, a waif chimney sweep, sees Joyce while cleaning a chimney in Colonel Wynne's magnificent home
1916-04-25
On the morning of her 11th birthday, Joyce reads in one of her gift books that she should perform a
1916-03-14
Little Joyce Reynolds’ parents are estranged with Joyce living with her mother. Distressed Joyce, he
1935-03-16
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mai
1922-10-01
Russian Jews Nathan & Esther Levinsky, along with son, David, escape to the U.S. Nathan’s life as a
1926-05-23
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they c