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Robert Kristian Paolo Sperati (July 27, 1872 – October 12, 1945) was a Norwegian stage actor and film actor from the silent-film era.


Career

Sperati was born in
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. He made his debut at the National Theater in Bergen as the aristocrat in Turgenev's '' Fortune's Fool'' () before he had success as Thummelumsen in Gustav Wied's comedy of the same name and in Anthon B. Nilsen's ''Bedstemors Gut'' (Grandma's Boy). He later worked in Oslo, at the Central Theater, the Oslo New Theater, and the Open-Air Theater on
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. He also participated in the first broadcast of the
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Radio Theater, in the role of the
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in
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's ''
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'' (on September 12, 1926).


Family

Sperati was the son of the conductor Robert Sperati (1848–1884) and the actress
Octavia Sperati Octavia Sperati, formerly known as Octavia, is a Norwegian gothic metal band from Bergen, Norway. The group released their debut album '' Winter Enclosure'' in 2005. Their second album, '' Grace Submerged'', was released in May 2007. Both albu ...
, and the grandson of the conductor and composer Paolo Sperati. He was married to the author
Kitty Lossius Kitty Lossius (April 19, 1892 – November 26, 1981) was a Norwegian teacher and novelist. She had a publishing career that lasted nearly fifty years. Life and work Lossius grew up in Kristiansund, where she graduated from high school in 1908. ...
. He was the nephew of the composer and music professor
Carlo Alberto Sperati Carlo Alberto Sperati (December 29, 1860 – September 12, 1945) was a Norwegian-American composer and music professor. Sperati was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, the son of the conductor Paolo Sperati. He went to sea in 1877, and th ...
.


Filmography

*1911: '' Fattigdommens forbandelse'' *1911: '' Hemmeligheden'' as Halling the landowner *1916: '' Paria'' as Carsten, an editor *1917: '' En Vinternat'' as a husband *1917: '' Unge hjerter'' as a Sami *1918: '' Vor tids helte'' as Sam *1926: '' Den nye lensmannen'' as Haugkallen


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Robert Sperati
at the Danish Film Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Sperati, Robert 1872 births 1945 deaths Norwegian male stage actors Norwegian male film actors Norwegian male silent film actors 20th-century Norwegian male actors Male actors from Bergen Norwegian people of Italian descent