Fred Malatesta

Born: 1889-04-17

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.


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Modern Times

as Cafe Head Waiter
Released: 1936-02-05

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again...

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Dodsworth

as Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: 1936-09-23

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that...

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The Thin Man

as Joe - Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-25

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...

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Love Affair

as Shipboard Photographer (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-07

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They...

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The Mark of Zorro

as Sentry (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-08

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under...

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Trouble in Paradise

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-30

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume...

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Blood and Sand

as Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-30

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...

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Road to Singapore

as Native Policeman (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-22

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

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The Crusades

as William, King of Sicily
Released: 1935-08-21

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

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Down Argentine Way

as Horserace Loser at Fiesta (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-11

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an...

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North West Mounted Police

as Half-breed Archer
Released: 1940-10-22

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...

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All Dolled Up

as Amilo Rodolpho
Released: 1921-03-28

The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a...

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Suez

as Jewel Merchant (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-28

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez,...

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International Settlement

as Italian Officer
Released: 1938-02-04

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun...

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Beg, Borrow or Steal

as Majordomo (uncredited)
Released: 1937-12-03

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to...

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I'll Give a Million

as Gendarme (uncredited)
Released: 1938-07-27

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Dick
Released: 1921-09-15

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with...

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The Wagon Show

as Vicarino
Released: 1928-02-19

Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous...

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Juarez

as Señor Salas (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-10

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular...

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The Devil's Trail

as Dubec
Released: 1919-06-16

Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West...

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The Bride Wore Red

as Rudi's Waiter (uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-08

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

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Blackwell's Island

as Third Dockworker (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-24

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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Bardelys the Magnificent

as Castelrous
Released: 1926-09-30

Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who...

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The Challenge of the Law

as Jules Lafitte
Released: 1920-10-10

A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...

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Arise, My Love

as Spanish Mechanic (Uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-08

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as...

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The Gay Bride

as French Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-14

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life...

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The Girl in 419

as Hotel Arcady Manager
Released: 1933-05-26

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much...

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Wings of Adventure

as Don Ricardo Diaz San Pablo La Pandella, 'La Panthera'
Released: 1930-08-01

Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency...

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The Reckless Age

as uncredited
Released: 1924-08-16

Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia...

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Submarine Patrol

as Italian Gendarme at the 'Maria Ann'
Released: 1938-11-25

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...

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Kiki

as Cheron, the Tenor (uncredited)
Released: 1926-04-04

Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a...

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The Peacock Fan

as Thomas Elton
Released: 1929-08-01

A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering...

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Espionage

as French Pickpocket
Released: 1937-02-26

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the...

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Rangers of Fortune

as Genoa
Released: 1940-09-27

Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam...

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Port of Seven Seas

as Bird Seller
Released: 1938-07-01

In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor,...

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Forbidden Paradise

as French ambassador
Released: 1924-01-02

Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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Bridal Suite

as Cassini - in Shipboard Brawl
Released: 1939-05-26

A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

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The Man from Yesterday

as Gendarme
Released: 1932-06-24

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor....

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Student Tour

as French Manager
Released: 1934-10-05

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

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Eve's Love Letters

as Mr. X's Accomplice (uncredited)
Released: 1927-05-28

Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach...

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Beer and Pretzels

as Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1933-08-26

Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women...

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Get 'Em Young

as the executor
Released: 1926-10-31

A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.

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Without Mercy

as Ducrow
Released: 1925-10-04

In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in...

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Long Fliv the King

as Hamir of Uvocado - the Prime Minister
Released: 1926-06-13

This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who...

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Perfectly Mismated

as uncredited
Released: 1934-11-12

Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.

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The Night Hawk

as José Valdez
Released: 1924-02-17

Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon...

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The Black Doll

as Esteban, the butler
Released: 1938-01-31

Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is...

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Sherlock Holmes

as 'Lightfoot' McTague
Released: 1916-06-30

When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts...

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The Gold Racket

as Senor Ricardo
Released: 1937-04-10

At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a...

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The Sins of Rosanne

as Syke Ravenal
Released: 1920-11-07

Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she...

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Get That Girl

as Dr. Sandro Tito
Released: 1932-04-15

A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium...

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The Mask

as Señor Enrico Keralio
Released: 1921-06-17

The Mask 1921 film

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The Best of Luck

as Lanzana
Released: 1920-07-01

Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial...

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Madame Mystery

as Man of a Thousand Eyes
Released: 1926-03-12

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the...

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Risky Business

as Ralli
Released: 1920-12-31

Society matron Mrs. Fanshaw Renwick entertains lavishly at her posh home. Living with her are...

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Full of Pep

as General Lopanzo
Released: 1919-05-26

Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions...

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Broadway or Bust

as Count Dardnelle
Released: 1924-06-09

Virginia Redding inherits a fortune and goes to New York, leaving behind her suitor Dave, a...

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