Albert Salmi was an American actor of stage, film, and television. He was noted as a character actor and appeared in over 150 film and television productions.
Salmi was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, to Finnish immigrant parents. He attended Haaren High School in Manhattan. Following a stint in the United States Army during World War II, Salmi took up acting as a career, studying Method acting at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg.
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