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Conte made film debut in '43 Marilyn Mayes of San Antonio writes, saw a movie on TV the other night that starred Richard Conte. What has happened to the actor?" Nicholas Peter Conte was born March 24,1910, in Jersey City, N.J. He was the son of a barber father and a seamstress mother. Conte grew up in the New Jersey slums in a rat-infested tenement sandwiched between a brass foundry and a coal yard. He quit school while still a teen-ager and went to work driving a truck.

After moving to New York, he worked as a Wall Street messenger, a shoe salesman and a combination waiter-barber- dancer for female guests at an East Coast summer resort After watching the Clifford Odets play "Waiting For Lefty," Conte decided he wanted to be an actor. He secured a scholarship from the Neighborhood Playhouse. Two-years later the I wonder what happened; Group Theater, under the direction of Elia Kazan, gave him a major role in William Soroyan's "My Heart's In lhe Highlands" (1939). In 1942, heiwas cast as the playwright in ''Jason." Critic George lean Nathan hailed him as the Wear's most outstanding actor." The following year he starred irj "The Family," which resulted in him securing a contract with 20th Century- Fox Studios in Hollywood. Conte made his film debut playing a captain in "Guadalcanal Dairy" (1943).

Fox then starred him repeatedly as a military man a lieutenant in "Purple Heart," a sergeant in "Bell For Adano," and a private in "A Walk In The Sun." In between playing a soldier, Conte, who was billed on screen as "Richard," starred in such films as "113 Rue Madeline," "Slaves of Babylon," "Call Northside 777," "Cry of the City," "New York Confidential," "Bengazi," "I'll Cry Tomorrow," "Full of Life" and "They Came To Cordura." He is probably best known for his performance as a California fruit trucker in "Thieves Highway." In later years, he would up being typecast as a gangster in such films as "Tony Rome" and "The Godfather." Conte and his first wife, Ruth Strome, an actress, divorced in 1963. He had been married to his second wife Colleen for two years when on April 3,1975, he suffered a massive bean attack and stroke. He died 13 days later in the intensive care unit at UCLA Medical Center. By MICHAEL BOWLIN Address your questions to "I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO P.O. Box 1428, Kerrville 78029.

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