Albert Conti
Acting • Born 1887-01-28 – Died 1967-01-18
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert De Conti Cadassamare (29 January 1887 – 18 January 1967), professionally billed as Albert Conti, was an Austrian-Hungarian-born Italian-American film actor. Born in the village Gorizia (now part of Italy), Conti achieved moderate fame as an actor in American films, but first he specialized in law (high school and law college in Graz) and natural science, and married Patricia Cross. When World War I began, he became an officer. His father was Albert, Ritter Conti v. Cedassamare and his mother was Marie Bernhardine Anna (Countess Caboga) a member of an old Ragusan/Dubrovnik noble family. After his discharge from the Austrian army at the close of World War I, he came to America like many other now-impoverished postwar Europeans from both sides of the conflict. Conti emigrated to the United States via the Port of Philadelphia in 1919. After settling in the new country, Conti was obliged to take a series of manual labor jobs, his patrician background notwithstanding. While working in the California oil fields, he answered an open call placed by director Erich von Stroheim, who was in search of an Austrian military officer to act as technical advisor for his upcoming film Merry-Go-Round (1923). A better actor than most of his fellow Habsburg Empire expatriates, Conti was able to secure dignified character roles in several silent and sound films; his credits ranged from Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) to the early Laurel and Hardy knockabout Slipping Wives (1927). He appeared in the 1928 silent film Dry Martini as a roué artist. Though he made his last film in 1942, Albert Conti remained in the industry as an employee of the MGM wardrobe department, where he worked until his retirement in 1962.
Filmography
82 credits
The Black Cat
Movie • 1934
The Lieutenant
The Legion of the Condemned
Movie • 1928
Von Hohendorff
Shanghai Madness
Movie • 1933
Rigaud
Fashions of 1934
Movie • 1934
Savarin (uncredited)
Captain Lash
Movie • 1929
Alex Condax
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Movie • 1932
Frenchman on Liner
Slipping Wives
Movie • 1927
Hon. Winchester Squirtz
Love Time
Movie • 1934
Nicholas
The Night Is Young
Movie • 1935
Mueller (uncredited)
Heartbreak
Movie • 1931
Liaison Officer
Lady with a Past
Movie • 1932
Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
Monte Carlo
Movie • 1930
Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
Why Is a Plumber?
Movie • 1929
Topaze
Movie • 1933
Henri de Fairville
Just a Gigolo
Movie • 1931
French Husband
The Devil Dancer
Movie • 1927
Arnold Guthrie
Gigolettes of Paris
Movie • 1933
The Wedding March
Movie • 1928
Imperial Guard
This Modern Age
Movie • 1931
André de Graignon
Shadow of Doubt
Movie • 1935
Louie - Head Waiter
The Night Club Lady
Movie • 1932
Vincent Rowland
Always Goodbye
Movie • 1938
Modiste Benoit
Sea Legs
Movie • 1930
Captain
Café Metropole
Movie • 1937
Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
The Common Law
Movie • 1931
Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
State's Attorney
Movie • 1932
Mario
Symphony of Living
Movie • 1935
Mancini
Men Are Such Fools
Movie • 1932
Spinelli
As You Desire Me
Movie • 1932
Captain
The Boudoir Diplomat
Movie • 1931
Emile
Jazz Heaven
Movie • 1929
Walter Klucke
Careless Lady
Movie • 1932
French Hotel Desk Clerk
Saturday's Children
Movie • 1929
Mengle
City in Darkness
Movie • 1939
Travel Agency Manager
Fatal Lady
Movie • 1936
Headwaiter (uncredited)
I'll Take Romance
Movie • 1937
Lepino
The Chinese Parrot
Movie • 1927
Martin Thorne
The Crusades
Movie • 1935
Leopold, Duke of Austria
Everything Happens at Night
Movie • 1939
Maitre d'Hotel
The Eagle
Movie • 1925
Kuschka
Lady of the Pavements
Movie • 1929
Baron Finot
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
Dangerously Yours
Movie • 1937
Monet
Shopworn
Movie • 1932
Andre
Morocco
Movie • 1930
Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
One Romantic Night
Movie • 1930
Count Lutzen
Show People
Movie • 1928
Producer
Mockery
Movie • 1927
Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Here's to Romance
Movie • 1935
LeFevre
Gateway
Movie • 1938
Count
Diamond Jim
Movie • 1935
Jeweler
Camille
Movie • 1927
Henri
Madam Satan
Movie • 1930
Empire Officer
Oh, for a Man!
Movie • 1930
Peck
Merry-Go-Round
Movie • 1923
Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
The Merry Widow
Movie • 1926
Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
The Giddy Age
Movie • 1932
Mabel's 1st Accomplice
Suez
Movie • 1938
M. Fevrier
Mills of the Gods
Movie • 1934
Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
Strangers May Kiss
Movie • 1931
De Bazan
Our Blushing Brides
Movie • 1930
Monsieur Pantoise
One in a Million
Movie • 1937
Hotel Manager
Red-Headed Woman
Movie • 1932
Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
The Magnificent Flirt
Movie • 1928
Count D'Estrange
Torch Singer
Movie • 1933
Carlotti
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Movie • 1927
Billie
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Movie • 1933
French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Page Miss Glory
Movie • 1935
Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
Old Loves and New
Movie • 1926
Dr. Chalmers
Freaks
Movie • 1932
Landowner (uncredited)
The Blonde Saint
Movie • 1926
Andreas
The Doomed Battalion
Movie • 1932
Captain Kessler
Such Men Are Dangerous
Movie • 1930
Paul Strohm
Beloved
Movie • 1934
Baron Franz von Hausmann
South Sea Love
Movie • 1927
Max Weber
The Exalted Flapper
Movie • 1929
King Alexander of Capra
Plastered in Paris
Movie • 1928
Abou Ben Abed
Alex The Great
Movie • 1928
Ed
Watch Your Wife
Movie • 1926
Alphonse Marsac
Fashion News
Movie • 1930
Stocks and Blondes
Movie • 1928
Powers
Honeymoon Hate
Movie • 1927