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Anthony Steel
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21 May 1920 - 21 March 2001
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Anthony Steel was a film actor of the 1950s. He was especially famous in the UK, had a stunning success with the fair sex. But the actor never achieved widespread fame in Hollywood, only the ex-wife of the actress Anita Ekberg was recognized in it.
Anthony was born on 21 May 1920 in London to an Indian officer. The boy was educated in Cambridge, and during the Second World War served in the British army.
In 1953, Steele got the lead role in the adventure film The Maltese Story with Alec Guinness
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Anthony Steel was a film actor of the 1950s. He was especially famous in the UK, had a stunning success with the fair sex. But the actor never achieved widespread fame in Hollywood, only the ex-wife of the actress Anita Ekberg was recognized in it.
Anthony was born on 21 May 1920 in London to an Indian officer. The boy was educated in Cambridge, and during the Second World War served in the British army.
In 1953, Steele got the lead role in the adventure film The Maltese Story with Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins. Here began his acting career. He looked quite harmoniously on the screen, especially in military roles, and soon became the largest star in British cinema. In late 1940 and early 1950 he was one of the highest paid actors in the UK.
On the set of one Harry Watt adventure film in 1951, Anthony crashed into a tree and seriously injured his knee. Later, an operation was even performed. In 1954, after the release of the film “West of Zanzibar”, where the actor played Bob Peyton, he had his own song “Jumbo”, it became a hit.
In 1956, Steele married Anita Ekberg and together they went to Hollywood. But there he got only small roles in the little remembered European films of 1970 and 1980. Among them was the erotic drama Just Jacquin “The Story of O”.
The last works of the actor were the Italian crime film Giuseppe Rosati “Supreme Crime”, the television thriller “The Glory Boys” scripted by Gerald Seymour, the film directed by Guy Hamilton.
"The mirror cracked" "Monsters Club" with Vincent Price.
Anthony Steele died of heart failure on March 21, 2001, in Middlesex. He was eighty years old. /