13/05/2026
Hollywood's Go-To Italian Character Actor: Frank Puglia (1892–1975)
Born in Sicily and brought to the U.S. for medical treatment as a boy, this versatile actor of stage and screen appeared in over 150 films from the silent era to the 1960s, often typecast as doctors, priests, waiters, and immigrants—memorably as Pietro in The House on 92nd Street (1945) and the fisherman Giuseppe in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) .