Albert Salmi

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Albert Salmi (born Alfred Salmi ; born March 11, 1928 in Brooklyn , New York , USA ; † April 22, 1990 in Spokane , Washington , USA ) was an American film and theater actor .

Life

Albert Salmi, son of the Finnish immigrants Svante and Ida Salmi, grew up in a community where predominantly Finnish was spoken. As a first grader, he spoke little English and therefore had some deficits. Nonetheless, he graduated from college and then served for about three years as a soldier in World War II .

With the support of the GI Bill of Rights , Salmi then began to realize his dream of acting by studying method acting with the Hungarian acting teacher Lee Strasberg . In October 1953 he made his acting debut on Broadway with the play End as a Man on the side of Anthony Franciosa and Ben Gazzara . Probably his most successful play was the drama Bus Stop by William Inge , which was performed for eleven months from March 1955 to April 1956.

He met his first wife, actress Peggy Ann Garner , whom he married on May 16, 1956. The marriage, from which the common daughter Catherine Ann emerged, was divorced on March 13, 1963. A year later, Salmi married Roberta Pollock, with whom he had two more daughters, Lizanne and Jennifer Salmi ; the latter is also active as an actress.

Salmi's television acting career began in 1954 and has guest starred in a number of well-known series including Twilight Zone (1960) and Smoking Colts (1971). In 1958 he played his first cinema roles: alongside Yul Brynner as half-brother Smerdjakov in the film epic The Brothers Karamazov and as one of the bandits in the western Bravados alongside Gregory Peck , these two performances earned him the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor . In 1971 he played a small supporting role in his best-known film Escape from the Planet of the Apes . In 1975 he also worked in the short-lived Petrocelli lawyer series . But even after that, he was denied a major role. In the 1980s he was recruited for television series, including cult formats such as Dallas (1982), Knight Rider (1983) and Hart but Heartily (1983).

In the mid-1980s, Salmi and his family moved from California to Washington State, because he didn't think much of Hollywood and the airs there. The film offers from Hollywood were recently only moderate and he suffered from depression . In February 1990, Salmi's wife Roberta filed for divorce and stated in the documents that her husband was an alcoholic and had assaulted her several times. Their daughter, however, also portrayed their mother as an unstable and abusive personality. On April 22, 1990, a human tragedy occurred in Salmi's house: According to police theories, Salmi first shot his wife Roberta with his Colt M1911 .45 ACP gun and then turned the gun on himself. He was buried in Spokane on Greenwood Memorial Terrace.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Spokesman Review - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Landmarks: Actor's murder-suicide left behind fame, forgiveness | The Spokesman Review. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salmi, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salmi, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1990
Place of death Spokane , Washington , USA