His father, Konstantin Moissi, was a rich Albanian merchant (oil and
wheat). His mother, Amalia di Rada, was by halves Albanian and Italian,
a daughter of a Florentian writer and doctor.
He was one of the great stars of silent film and theater in Austria-Hungary. His most famous stage characters are: Hamlet (Shakespeare), Henry IV
(Luigi Pirandello), Jedermann (Hugo von Hofmannsthal), Protasov (Leo
Tolstoy's "Living corpse"), Tasso (Goethe).
Was cremated in Vienna, Austria and buried near Lake Lugano in Morcote, Switzerland.