Roy D'Arcy as Manos Duras in a Still from The Temptress 1926 AP1491

  Was there ever more delicious, more fantastical, more outrageous villains than those played by Roy D'Arcy? Nope. From this still we think you get the picture. Either you "get" him or you don''t. We do. Measures 10" x 13 1/2". Roy D'Arcy was born Roy Giusti in San Francisco in 1894 but educated in Europe. For a while he traveled with a band of gypsies throughout the Continent, but left to study art and painting in Paris. After several years of traveling and various business ventures in South America and Asia he returned to the US and decided to become involved in the theater. He got a job as a singer in several touring theatrical companies, and in 1919 made his film debut in Oh Boy! (1919) in a role he had played on the stage. He spent some time in vaudeville as a monologist, and took his act to Europe and Asia. When he returned to the US he was performing his show on a Los Angeles stage when he was spotted by director Erich von Stroheim, who though D'Arcy was just right for the part