Role to Fame -- To be an actor and make a living as such requires, sometimes, the ability to act. Such was the case of the English actor, Geoffrey Victor Perrett, who entered the entertainment business at the age of 10 and discovered just a few years back that for him to win any success on the British stage, he had better assume another nationality. So he became an "American Gangster" named "Fingers" Orsini from Nashua, N. H., who was on the Lam from Chicago. The Britishers loved the "role" he had assigned himself. January 5, 1946. (Photo by Wide World Photos).