Vintage Spanish postcard. Series Estrellas del cinema, no. 152. Late 1920s/ early 1930s.
Tony D'Algy (born Antonio Eduardo Lozano Guedes; 1897 – 29 April 1977) was a Portuguese film actor. He was born in Luanda, Angola, and died in Lisbon, Portugal. He appeared in 57 films between 1924 and 1949, including The Boob (1926), a silent comedy where Joan Crawford makes one of her first appearances.
In the 1920s, Lozano left for New York and Broadway, and using the first letters of his name ALGI), he changed his name to Antonio D'Algy. He also asked his sister Antonia to come over, who changed her name to Helena, and they worked together on Broadway. Here Natache Rambova discovered them and invited them over to Los Angeles to start a career in cinema. D'Algy thus acted in various Hollywood silent films. With Helena D'Algy he e.g. co-acted in A Sainted Devil (Joseph Henabery, 1924), starring Rudolph Valentino, after a minor part in Valentino's previous film Monsieur Beaucaire (1924). D'Algy also directed two films in 1927, The Reckless Mollycoddle, scripted by future director Tay Garnett, and the Spanish film Raza de hidalgos, with his sister and himself in the leads.
In the late 1920s D'Algy acted in France in various late silents, including Figaro (Tony Lekain, Gaston Ravel, 1929). In the early 1930s he acted in Spanish sound versions of American films directed by Adelqui Migliar at the Paris Paramount studios, while he simultaneously also acted in French and Belgian early sound films. In the mid-1930s he started to act in Spain but then moved to Argentina for several films, returning to Spain in 1940 for more films, alternating leads with supporting parts. D'Algy continued in Spanish cinema until 1949. He also acted in the Portuguese sound film, Fado, História de uma Cantadeira (1947). (Sources: English Wikipedia, IMDb)
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