Sky du Mont

Cayetano Neven du Mont (Spanish: [kaʝeˈtano ˈneβen du ˈmon]; born 20 May 1947), known professionally as Sky du Mont (German: [ˈskaɪ dy ˈmɔ̃ː], Spanish: [esˈkaj ðu ˈmon]), is a German-Argentine actor.

Early life

Sky du Mont's family, who are related to the famous publishers DuMont Schauberg, fled the Nazis in the 1930s to South America. He was born in Argentina as the son of a German and the British Chiquita Neven du Mont (1921–2018). He grew up in England, but came to Germany in 1969, where he studied acting between 1969 and 1972 in Munich.

Career

In Germany, he is well known for playing suave and urbane, sometimes villainous or shady upper class characters since the 1970s. He appeared in three of the commercially most successful German film comedies of all time: In Otto – Der Film (1985) as an aristrocratic-looking swindler, as the villain "Santa Maria" in the Western comedy Der Schuh des Manitu (2001) and in Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 (2003), where he reprised his role as "Santa Maria" and played a second role as "William der Letzte" (William the Last), an English duke in the Middle Ages.