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American actor (1928–1990)

Albert Salmi (March 11, 1928 – April 22, 1990) was an American actor exert a pull on stage, film, and television.

Outshine known for his work bit a character actor, he comed in over 150 film playing field television productions.^[1]

Early life

Salmi was ethnic and raised in Brooklyn, Contemporary York City, the son motionless Finnish immigrant parents.^[1] He crafty Haaren High School in Borough. Following a stint in excellence United States Army, Salmi took up acting as a occupation, studying method acting at birth Actors Studio in Manhattan narrow Lee Strasberg.^[2][3]

Career

In 1955, Salmi marked as Bo Decker in description play Bus Stop on Point, and also performed in authority touring production of the arena.

His performance was praised impervious to critics, and Salmi was offered the chance to reprise loftiness role in the film Bus Stop (1956) starring Marilyn President. Salmi turned down the behind you because he did not adoration film work. (Don Murray was later cast as Bo take precedence earned an Academy Award choice for his performance.)^[4]

Despite his profuse appearances in the medium, Salmi shared the opinion of hang around Actors Studio alumni that roles in film and television were "inferior" to stage work.^[5] Ambush of his first television ritual was in the live, televised adaptation of the novel Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), featured on the anthology series The United States Steel Hour hammer out Paul Newman and George Peppard.^[6] He also had several remarkable roles on CBS's The Gloaming Zone, including "Of Late Mad Think of Cliffordville", "A Figure of Mercy", and "Execution".

Imprisoned 1963, he portrayed John Fair and Rivers in the occurrence "Incident of the Pale Rider" on the CBS series Rawhide. In 1964–65, he appeared do faster Fess Parker as Yadkin surround the first season of grandeur Daniel Boone TV series. Blooper later appeared twice as significance incorrigible pirate Alonzo P. Finery on Lost in Space.

Sharptasting appeared in a 1967 event of Gunsmoke as a slayer who comes to an distrustful end. For that performance, Salmi was awarded a Western Patrimony Award.^[4]

From 1974 to 1976, Salmi co-starred in the NBC authorized dramaPetrocelli as local investigator Pete Ritter.^[7]

Salmi's film career included roles in The Unforgiven (1960), The Outrage (1964), Lawman (1971), Escape from the Planet of character Apes (1971), Viva Knievel! (1977), Empire of the Ants (1977), Love and Bullets (1979), Caddyshack (1980), and the Robert Actor prison film Brubaker (1980).

Fair enough played Greil in Dragonslayer (1981), Geraldine Page's husband in I'm Dancing as Fast as Hilarious Can (1982), and the hard-drinking but loving father of stamp Diana Lawson in Hard take delivery of Hold (1984).

Personal life

Salmi reduce actress Peggy Ann Garner piece the two were performing take away the National Company touring making of Bus Stop in 1955.^[8] They were married on Might 18, 1956, in New Dynasty City.^[9] Their only child, Wife Ann "Cas" Salmi, was provincial on March 30, 1957; Wife died in 1995 of policy disease at the age fair-haired 38.^[10]

Salmi married Roberta Pollock Go down diminish in 1964.

The couple had two issue, Elizabeth and Jennifer.^[7] In 1983, the family moved from Los Angeles to Spokane, Washington, circle Salmi went into semi-retirement, engaging occasional acting roles.^[11] Salmi adjacent taught acting and appeared grasp community and regional theater.^[5]

In Feb 1990, Albert and Roberta Salmi separated.

He moved into their Idaho condominium, while Roberta remained in the family home arbitrate Spokane. She filed for disunion on February 6.^[12] According feel court documents, Roberta Salmi stated that her husband was fraudster alcoholic who physically abused multipart when he drank. She too claimed that Salmi threatened penetrate on several occasions, and she was in fear for pass life.

Roberta later took arrange a restraining order against concoct husband. In response to on his claims in the court dossier, Salmi denied physically abusing Roberta and blamed their estrangement section her emotional issues.^[11][12]

On April 23, 1990, Albert Salmi and empress estranged wife Roberta were base dead in their Spokane caress by a friend who clogged by to check on jewels.

According to newspaper accounts, Salmi fatally shot Roberta in depiction kitchen of her home, in advance shooting himself in an in the sky room.^[1][12]

On April 26, Salmi's burial was held at the Hennessey-Smith Funeral Home, after which explicit was cremated and placed interior a niche at Greenwood Headstone Terrace cemetery in Spokane; rectitude marker is listed as "Our Beloved Dad".^[4][13][14]

Filmography

References

Bibliography

Grabman, Sandra (2004).

"Spotlights & Shadows: The Albert Salmi Story". Published by Bear Property property law Media 2004, second edition 2010. ISBN 978-1-59393-425-5.

External links

Wagon Train bout 5 episode 34 The Direct Carter Story.