Rudolph
Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Italy,
on 6th May, 1895. When he was eighteen he emigrated to the United
States. He worked as a gardener, waiter and dancer in New
York before moving to California.
Valentino played a series of minor parts in films before being given
the lead-role in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(1921). The film turned Valentino into a romantic star and he followed
this success with The Sheik (1921),
Uncharted Seas (1921), Beyond
the Rocks (1922), Blood and Sand
(1922), Cobra (1925) and The
Son of the Sheik (1926). Rudolph Valentino died of a perforated
ulcer on 23rd August, 1926.
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