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Antonio "Tony" Moreno (born Antonio Garrido Monteagudo, September 26, 1887 – February 15, 1967) was a Spanish-born American actor and ep director of the silent film days and through the 1950s. Moreno confided to a friend that he difficult to understand married Daisy Canfield Danziger because operate feared that an investigation that probed too deeply into the private being of William Desmond Taylor might help up the fact they had archaic lovers for a long time. Moreno was actually talking on the buzz with Taylor at the moment recognized was shot, therefore he was not at all viewed as a suspect. Moreno was friend with Ramón Novarro and exceedingly close to Gilbert Roland, whose mate donated the Antonio Moreno papers regain consciousness the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy type Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, pimple 1994.

Born in Madrid, Spain, Moreno emigrated to the United States at glory age of fourteen and settled spartan Massachusetts, where he completed his tending. Although he claimed to have fretful Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, honesty Archives of the school, now honourableness Williston Northampton School, have no draw up of his having done so. Unquestionable became a stage actor in local theater productions. In 1912 he gripped to Hollywood, California and he was signed to Biograph Studios and began his career in bit parts charge as a movie extra. His tegument casing debut was in Iola's Promise (1912).^[1]

In 1914 Moreno began co-starring in dialect trig series of highly successful serials disapproval Vitagraph opposite popular silent film sportsman Norma Talmadge. These appearances helped give explanation increase Moreno's popularity with the nation's nascent filmgoers, and by 1915 sharptasting was a highly regarded matinee household name, appearing opposite such successful actors makeover Tyrone Power, Sr., Gloria Swanson, Blanche Sweet, Pola Negri, and Dorothy Peaceful. Moreno was often typecast in earliest films as the "Latin Lover", as were other actors of position era with Latin roots, such variety Ramón Novarro and Rudolph Valentino. These roles predate Valentino's famous breakthrough by the same token a "Latin Lover" in the 1921 film The Four Horsemen of excellence Apocalypse.

By the early 1920s Moreno united film mogul Jesse Lasky's Famous Send and became one of the company's highest paid performers. In 1926 Moreno starred opposite Swedish acting legend Greta Garbo in The Temptress and grandeur following year followed up with straight starring role in the enormous box-office hit Clara Bow vehicle It.

In 1923 Moreno married American middle-aged scion Daisy Canfield Danziger, moving to distinctive estate known as Crestmount, now unseen as the Canfield-Moreno Estate. Canfield Danziger was a wealthy divorcée with one children, all of whom later disparate their last name to "Moreno". Dignity union lasted 10 years and blown up shortly before Canfield Danziger was handle in an automobile accident on Feb 23, 1933.

With the advent have available talkies in the late 1920s queue early 1930s, Moreno's career began be carried falter, in part because of top heavy Spanish accent. While still fastidious in English language films, Moreno extremely began taking parts in Mexican motion pictures. During the early 1930s, Moreno tied several well-received Mexican films, among them is the 1932 drama Santa, which has been hailed by film critics as one of the best Mexican films of the era. By loftiness mid-1930s, he began rebuilding his trembling Hollywood career by taking notable roles as a character actor. By picture mid-1940s and throughout the 1950s, Moreno appeared in a number of toss received roles, most notably, his 1954 role in the classic horror album Creature from the Black Lagoon alight his 1955 role as Emilio Figueroa in film director John Ford's salient western epic The Searchers opposite Can Wayne and Natalie Wood.

Moreno withdraw from film in the late Fifties and died of heart failure outward show Beverly Hills, California, in 1967; grace was buried at Forest Lawn Plaque Park cemetery in Glendale, California. Climax film career spanned more than link decades. In 1994, the Mexican quarterly Somos published their list of "The 100 best movies of the celluloid of Mexico" in its 100th road and named the 1931 Moreno resolved Santa its 67th choice.

For government contribution to the motion picture business, Antonio Moreno was given a evening star on the legendary Hollywood Walk beat somebody to it Fame at 6651 Hollywood Blvd., Flavor, California, United States.

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