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Tom Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish
Scotland

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 Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
-winning actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, theatre director, and novelist.

Thomas Conti to an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 father and an Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic

Irish Catholics is a term used to describe people of Catholic or Roman Catholic background who are Irish people or of Irish descent.The term is of note due to Irish immigration to many countries of the English speaking world, particularly as a result of the Irish Famine in the 1840s - 1850s, following which the population declined by over...
 mother in Paisley
Paisley

Paisley is a town and former burgh in the west-Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is situated on the northern edge of the Gleniffer Braes, straddling the banks of the River Cart....
, Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic Renfrewshire , also known as the County of Renfrew or Greater Renfrewshire, the other two being Inverclyde to the west and East Renfrewshire to the east....
, he was educated at Hamilton Park School, an independent fee-paying Catholic boys' school in Glasgow
Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is a conservatoire of music, drama and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, today it acts as one of the leading cultural institutions in the United Kingdom, and is the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland....
. Conti began working with the Dundee Repertory
Dundee Repertory Theatre

Dundee Repertory Theatre or Dundee Rep is a theatre and arts company in the city of Dundee, Scotland. It operates as both a producing house - staging at least six of its own productions each year, and a receiving house - hosting work from visiting companies throughout Scotland and the United Kingdom including drama, Musical theatre, Con...
 in 1959. He appeared on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 in Whose Life is it Anyway?
Whose Life is it Anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a play by Brian Clark adapted from his 1972 television movie of the same title. The play premiered at the Mermaid Theatre in London's West End theatre in 1978 starring Tom Conti as Ken....
 in 1979.






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Tom Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
-winning actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, theatre director, and novelist.

Biography

Born Thomas Conti to an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 father and an Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic

Irish Catholics is a term used to describe people of Catholic or Roman Catholic background who are Irish people or of Irish descent.The term is of note due to Irish immigration to many countries of the English speaking world, particularly as a result of the Irish Famine in the 1840s - 1850s, following which the population declined by over...
 mother in Paisley
Paisley

Paisley is a town and former burgh in the west-Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is situated on the northern edge of the Gleniffer Braes, straddling the banks of the River Cart....
, Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic Renfrewshire , also known as the County of Renfrew or Greater Renfrewshire, the other two being Inverclyde to the west and East Renfrewshire to the east....
, he was educated at Hamilton Park School, an independent fee-paying Catholic boys' school in Glasgow
Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is a conservatoire of music, drama and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, today it acts as one of the leading cultural institutions in the United Kingdom, and is the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland....
. Conti began working with the Dundee Repertory
Dundee Repertory Theatre

Dundee Repertory Theatre or Dundee Rep is a theatre and arts company in the city of Dundee, Scotland. It operates as both a producing house - staging at least six of its own productions each year, and a receiving house - hosting work from visiting companies throughout Scotland and the United Kingdom including drama, Musical theatre, Con...
 in 1959. He appeared on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 in Whose Life is it Anyway?
Whose Life is it Anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a play by Brian Clark adapted from his 1972 television movie of the same title. The play premiered at the Mermaid Theatre in London's West End theatre in 1978 starring Tom Conti as Ken....
 in 1979. In London he played the lead in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell is a Play by Keith Waterhouse about real-life journalist Jeffrey Bernard who was still alive at the time the play was first performed in the West End theatre in 1989....
 at the Garrick Theatre
Garrick Theatre

The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on April 24 1889 with The Profligate, a play by Arthur Wing Pinero....
.

Conti also is an accomplished film and television actor. Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist....
's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn Order of the British Empire is a popular and prolific English playwright....
's Norman Conquests
The Norman Conquests

The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of Play written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six characters, namely Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sarah, Ruth's sister Annie, and Tom, Annie's next-door-neighbour....
, he appeared in the Princess and the Pea
The Princess and the Pea (Faerie Tale Theatre episode)

The Princess and the Pea is the 10th episode of the television program anthology series Faerie Tale Theatre hosted by Shelley Duvall. The story is adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen story of The Princess and the Pea and stars Liza Minnelli as the princess of the title, Tom Conti, Tim Kazurinsky, Beatrice Straight, Nancy All...
 episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre
Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre, fully Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, is a live action children's television series retelling popular fairy tales....
, guested on Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
 and Cosby
Cosby

Cosby is an Emmy Award- and People's Choice Awards-winning situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000....
, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne
Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne Order of the British Empire was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister....
 in a long-running series of car advertisements in the UK.

Conti has appeared in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

File:Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence poster.jpgMerry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a 1983 in film film director by Nagisa Oshima, film producer by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi Kitano....
, Reuben, Reuben
Reuben, Reuben

Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy film. It stars Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.The film was adapted by Julius J....
, American Dreamer
American Dreamer (film)

American Dreamer is a 1984 American film starring JoBeth Williams and Tom Conti. It was directed by Rick Rosenthal from a script by Ann Biderman, David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf....
, Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine is a 1986 play by English dramatist, Willy Russell that premiered on London's West End theatre starring Pauline Collins....
, Saving Grace
Saving Grace (1985 film)

Saving Grace is a 1985 film Produced by Herbert F. Solow, directed by Robert M. Young and starring Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini and Edward James Olmos....
 and Dangerous Parking.

Conti's book The Doctor, about a former Secret Operations pilot with Intelligence Services, was published in 2004.

Conti has been married to Scottish actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 Kara Wilson since 1967, and their daughter Nina
Nina Conti

Nina Conti is a British actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Her onstage puppet sidekick is a depressed monkey named Monk....
 is an actress and ventriloquist.

Work


Film

  • O Jerusalem
    O Jerusalem (film)

    O Jerusalem is a 2006 drama film directed by Elie Chouraqui. The working title for release in the US is Beyond Friendship. It's based on a novel of the same name, written by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins....
     (Oct-2006)
  • Rabbit Fever
  • Derailed
    Derailed

    Derailed is a 2005 American thriller film/drama film based on a James Siegel's novel Derailed adapted by Stuart Beattie. The film is film director by Mikael H?fstr?m and stars Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, Addison Timlin, Giancarlo Esposito and Xzibit....
     (Nov-2005)
  • Paid
    Paid (2006 film)

    Paid is a 2006 in film The Netherlands English language feature film filmed by Laurence Lamers, between 2004 and 2005. with Anne Charrier, Murilo Ben?cio, Tom Conti, Guy Marchand, Corbin Bernsen, Marie-France Pisier, Beppe Clerici, Tygo Gernandt....
  • The Enemy
  • Don't Go Breaking My Heart
    Don't Go Breaking My Heart

    "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is a duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee. It was written by Elton John without Bernie Taupin under the pseudonym "Ann Orson" and "Carte Blanche" , and intended as an affectionate pastiche of the Tamla Motown style, notably the various duets recorded by Marvin Gaye and singers such as Tammi Terrell and Kim Weston....
     (Feb-1999)
  • Out of Control
    Out of Control

    Out of Control is an United States comedy television series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1984 in television until 1988 in television, and was the first series produced specifically for that channel ....
  • Something to Believe In (May-1998)
  • Sub Down (Nov-1997)
  • The Inheritance
    The Inheritance

    The Inheritance is a fantasy novel set in the Dragonlance campaign series and is in the Classics series....
     (Apr-1997)
  • Someone Else's America (Sep-1995)
  • Caccia Alla Vedova
  • Shirley Valentine
    Shirley Valentine

    Shirley Valentine is a 1986 play by English dramatist, Willy Russell that premiered on London's West End theatre starring Pauline Collins....
     (Aug-1989)
  • Roman Holiday
    Roman Holiday

    Roman Holiday is a 1953 in film romantic comedy. The film introduced American audiences to Belgian-born actress Audrey Hepburn, who won the Academy Awards for Best Actress....
     (Dec-1987)
  • That Summer of White Roses
  • Two Brothers Running
  • Beyond Therapy
    Beyond Therapy

    Beyond Therapy is a play by Christopher Durang.The farce comedy focuses on Prudence and Bruce, two Manhattanites who are seeking stable romantic relationships with the help of their psychiatry, each of whom suggests the patient place a personal advertisement....
     (Jun-1987)
  • The Quick and the Dead
    The Quick and the Dead

    The Quick and the Dead is a 1995 Western film film directed by Sam Raimi. It stars Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen, and Keith David....
     (Feb-1987)
  • Miracles (1986)
  • Saving Grace
    Saving Grace (1985 film)

    Saving Grace is a 1985 film Produced by Herbert F. Solow, directed by Robert M. Young and starring Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini and Edward James Olmos....
     (Oct-1985)
  • Heavenly Pursuits
    Heavenly Pursuits

    Heavenly Pursuits is a British film directed by Charles Gormley and was released in 1985. It stars Tom Conti and Helen Mirren, as well as future Trainspotting star Ewen Bremner in a minor role....
     (1985)
  • American Dreamer
    American Dreamer (film)

    American Dreamer is a 1984 American film starring JoBeth Williams and Tom Conti. It was directed by Rick Rosenthal from a script by Ann Biderman, David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf....
     (Oct-1984)
  • Reuben, Reuben
    Reuben, Reuben

    Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy film. It stars Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.The film was adapted by Julius J....
     (Dec-1983)
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
    Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

    File:Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence poster.jpgMerry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is a 1983 in film film director by Nagisa Oshima, film producer by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi Kitano....
     (Jun-1983)
  • Full Circle
    Full Circle

    Full Circle may refer to:Mathematics* Full circle, the same as a Turn , a unit of plane angle, equal to 360? or 2p radiansMusic...
     (Sep-1977)
  • The Duellists
    The Duellists

    The Duellists is a 1977 in film film, which was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at Cannes....
     (Aug-1977)
  • Gallileo
    Gallileo

    Gallileo is a 446ft tall skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. It was constructed from 1999 to 2003 and has 38 floors. It has 49,000 m? of floor space and is the 14th tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt....
  • Flame
    Flame

    A flame is the visible part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic reaction taking place in a thin zone. If a fire is hot enough to ionize the gaseous components, it can become a Plasma ....


Television

  • Donovan
    Donovan

    Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
  • I Was a Rat
  • Deadline
    Deadline

    A deadline is a time limit. Deadline may also refer to:...
  • Cosby
    Cosby

    Cosby is an Emmy Award- and People's Choice Awards-winning situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000....
  • Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    , The One After Ross Says Rachel, and The One with Ross's Wedding
  • The Inheritance
    The Inheritance

    The Inheritance is a fantasy novel set in the Dragonlance campaign series and is in the Classics series....
  • The Wright Verdicts
  • The Old Boy Network
  • Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
  • Fatal Judgement
  • Roman Holiday
    Roman Holiday

    Roman Holiday is a 1953 in film romantic comedy. The film introduced American audiences to Belgian-born actress Audrey Hepburn, who won the Academy Awards for Best Actress....
  • The Dumb Waiter
    The Dumb Waiter

    The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Pinter written in 1957; it premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, on 21 January 1960....
  • The Quick and the Dead
    The Quick and the Dead

    The Quick and the Dead is a 1995 Western film film directed by Sam Raimi. It stars Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen, and Keith David....
  • Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
  • Princess and the Pea
    The Princess and the Pea (Faerie Tale Theatre episode)

    The Princess and the Pea is the 10th episode of the television program anthology series Faerie Tale Theatre hosted by Shelley Duvall. The story is adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen story of The Princess and the Pea and stars Liza Minnelli as the princess of the title, Tom Conti, Tim Kazurinsky, Beatrice Straight, Nancy All...
  • The Wall
    The Wall

    The Wall is a rock opera presented as a double album by the England progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late 1979. It was subsequently performed live, with elaborate theatrical effects, and made into Pink Floyd The Wall ....
  • Rosemary's baby
    Rosemary's Baby

    Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror fiction novel by Ira Levin, his second published book....
  • Blade on the Feather
  • The Norman Conquests
    The Norman Conquests

    The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of Play written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six characters, namely Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sarah, Ruth's sister Annie, and Tom, Annie's next-door-neighbour....
  • The Glittering Prizes
  • Sam
    Sam

    Sam, SAM, sam, SAm may refer to:...
  • Barlow at Large
    Barlow at Large

    Barlow at Large was a British television programme from the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role.Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s....
  • Z Cars
  • Adam Smith
    Adam Smith

    Adam Smith was a Scotland Ethics and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations....
  • Thirty-Minute Theatre - Revolutions: Fidel Castro
  • Boy Meets Girl
    Boy Meets Girl

    Boy Meets Girl is a duet consisting of keyboardist and vocalist George Merrill and singer Shannon Rubicam. They are perhaps best known for their Chart-topper song "Waiting For A Star To Fall" from 1988....


Stage

  • The Real Thing
    The Real Thing (play)

    The Real Thing is a play by Tom Stoppard, first performed in 1982. It examines the nature of honesty, and its use of a play within a play is one of many levels on which the author teases the audience with the difference between semblance and reality....
  • Chapter Two
  • Present Laughter
    Present Laughter

    Present Laughter is a comedy play written by No?l Coward in 1939 and first staged in 1942 on tour, alternating with his lower middle-class domestic drama This Happy Breed....
  • The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
    The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

    The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a play by Arthur Miller.The play's central character is Lyman Felt Hobkins, an insurance agent and bigamist who maintains families in New York City and Elmira, New York in upstate New York....
  • Romantic Comedy
    Romantic Comedy (play)

    Romantic Comedy is a play by Bernard Slade, author of Same Time, Next Year.The plot focuses on Phoebe Craddock and Jason Carmichael, playwrights who meet and decide to collaborate just as he is getting married....
  • They're Playing Our Song
    They're Playing Our Song

    They're Playing Our Song is a musical theatre with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven....
  • The Devil's Disciple
    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple is a 1897 melodrama by written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. Set in Colonial America, during the American Revolutionary War, the melodrama, is not without humor, particularly in the character of John Burgoyne....
  • Jesus, My Boy (1998-99)


Stage directing

  • The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
    The Last of the Red Hot Lovers

    The Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a play by Neil Simon.At the comedy's core is Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish who wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late....
  • Present Laughter
    Present Laughter

    Present Laughter is a comedy play written by No?l Coward in 1939 and first staged in 1942 on tour, alternating with his lower middle-class domestic drama This Happy Breed....
  • Otherwise Engaged
    Otherwise Engaged

    Otherwise Engaged is a bleakly comic play by English playwright Simon Gray. It opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 10 July 1975, with Alan Bates as the star and Harold Pinter as director, produced by Michael Codron....


Awards

  • National Board of Review for Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)
  • Academy Award nomination as Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben)
  • Golden Globe nominations for Reuben, Reuben and Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
  • Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
     for Best Actor (    Whose Life Is It Anyway?)
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play ('Whose Life is it Anyway?)
  • Variety Club Award for Best Actor (Whose Life is it Anyway?)


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