Tom Conti Movies and Career Information

Thomas "Tom" Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and novelist. Born Thomas Conti in Paisley, Renfrewshire, he was raised Roman Catholic, but he considers himself anti-religious. Conti's father was Italian and his mother was Scottish. Conti was educated at St Aloysius' College, an independent fee-paying Catholic boys' (at that time) school in Glasgow, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Conti is an accomplished film and television actor. He began working with the Dundee Repertory in 1959. He appeared on Broadway in Whose Life is it Anyway? in 1979, and in London he played the lead in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell at the Garrick Theatre. Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, Conti appeared in the Princess and the Pea episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guested on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of Vauxhall Astra car advertisements in the UK during the mid 1990s. Conti has appeared in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben, American Dreamer,