Birthday: March 11, 1928

Brawny, Brooklyn-born Albert Salmi was trained in the late '40s at the Actors Studio and American Theatre Wing. Extremely busy on-stage and live TV in the 1950s, Salmi was seen in such roles as the dimwitted "doom-ded" ballplayer in the 1956 TV adaptation of Mark Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly. His first significant Broadway appearance was as the overexuberant rodeo star in ...more
  • 1958
  • National Board of Review
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic
  • The Bravados
  • win
  • 1958
  • National Board of Review
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • win
  • 1988
  • Jesse
  • Sheriff Bill Sommers


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