Luis Alberni (1886–1962)

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Spanish character actor Luis Alberni was born on the date of October 4, 1886 in Cataluna Barcelona, Spain. His mother's maiden name was Malo, and father's surname Alberni. Luis attended the University of Madrid and majored in drama, it was around this time that he began to get involved in acting in Europe. While acting in a Shakespearean play, (Hamlet), the audience went hysterical and loved him. Due to the recognition he received it was then that he decided to become a comedian.

In 1914 he decided to move to the United States to continue with his career in acting. His first wife Charlotte Hall, bore him three sons, John, Luis and Carlos. It was during his first marriage that Luis began having an affair with another woman named Wanda. He got a divorce around 1938 from Charlotte and married his last wife, Wanda Mary Wilson in Santa Ana California 1940, with whom he stayed until his last days. In the process no children had been conceived. Around the age of mid-seventies, Luis lived in a home for the elderly devoted to actors, most of whom were from the Screen Actors guild or Masquers club. On the date of December 23, 1962 he passed away and was buried at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anthony Carrillo - Wanda Alberni's great great grandson.

Spouse (2)

Charlotte Hall Alberni (1919 - 1938)

Wanda Mary Wilson (1940- Widowed)

Trivia (2)

Screen and stage actor.

Fluent speaker of seven different languages, gourmet chef, artist and piano player.

Learned and played piano by ear. Sculptor.

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Biography by Hal Erickson

Spanish-born character actor Luis Alberni spent most of his Hollywood career playing excitable Italians: waiters, janitors, stagehands, and shop proprietors. A short, elfish man usually decked out in a string tie and frock coat, Alberni worked on stage in Europe before heading for Broadway (and the movies) in 1921. He was busiest in the early-talkie era, appearing twice in large, juicy supporting roles opposite John Barrymore. In Svengali, Alberni is Barrymore's long-suffering assistant, while in Mad Genius, he's a dope-addicted stage manager who murders Barrymore in a baroque climax. During World War II, Alberni kept busy playing Italian mayors and peasants, both fascist and partisan. Luis Alberni's final film appearance was as the great-uncle of a "compromised" French peasant girl in John Ford's remake of What Price Glory? (1952)

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