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6 unusual facts about Tom Conti


Jayne Brook

During the late 1980s, she worked for a while in Great Britain, appearing with Tom Conti and John Standing in The Old Boy Network, a single season ITV comedy series about three spies (an ex-MI5 agent, an ex-MI5 traitor who'd been working for the KGB, and an ex-CIA officer) who set up as private investigators after the end of the Cold War.

John Stephen Hill

In the London fringe, Hill produced two plays, and was directed by Tom Conti in Beyond Therapy.

Natalie J. Robb

She made her screen debut as a nine-year-old starring in an STV docudrama with veteran Scots star Tom Conti.

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story is a 1986 made-for-TV biographical drama film, starring Farrah Fawcett in the title role, and Tom Conti.

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

Moore announced plans to return in a new sitcom in the fall of 1980, but instead turned to Broadway, where she starred in a revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway? (winning a special 1980 Tony Award for her performance of a role originally played by Tom Conti), and then went back to Hollywood, where she played the emotionally crippled mother in the acclaimed film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford.

Tom Conte

For the Scottish actor see: Tom Conti


Adolfo Aguilar Zínser

In the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War he was the subject of an episode of the BBC series 10 Days to War, in which he was played by Tom Conti.

Kathleen Garscadden

Among the well-known entertainers who received their first opportunities from Garscadden were Gordon Jackson, Fulton Mackay, John Grieve, Molly Weir, Tom Conti, Moira Anderson, Sydney Devine, Stanley Baxter, Jimmy Logan, Rikki Fulton, and Janet Brown.

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.


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