Albert Conti
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 28, 1887
- Died
- January 18, 1967 (aged 79)
- Birthplace
- Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
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.
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Filmography
City in Darkness
Movie · as Travel Agency Manager
Everything Happens at Night
Movie · as Maitre d'Hotel
Always Goodbye
Movie · as Modiste Benoit
Gateway
Movie · as Count
Suez
Movie · as M. Fevrier
Café Metropole
Movie · as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
I'll Take Romance
Movie · as Lepino
Dangerously Yours
Movie · as Monet
One in a Million
Movie · as Hotel Manager
Fatal Lady
Movie · as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie · as Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
The Night Is Young
Movie · as Mueller (uncredited)
Shadow of Doubt
Movie · as Louie - Head Waiter
Symphony of Living
Movie · as Mancini
The Crusades
Movie · as Leopold, Duke of Austria
Here's to Romance
Movie · as LeFevre
Diamond Jim
Movie · as Jeweler
Page Miss Glory
Movie · as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
The Black Cat
Movie · as The Lieutenant
Fashions of 1934
Movie · as Savarin (uncredited)
Love Time
Movie · as Nicholas
Mills of the Gods
Movie · as Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
Beloved
Movie · as Baron Franz von Hausmann
Elmer and Elsie
Movie · as Barlotti
Shanghai Madness
Movie · as Rigaud
Topaze
Movie · as Henri de Fairville
Gigolettes of Paris
Movie
Torch Singer
Movie · as Carlotti
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Movie · as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Adorable
Movie · as The Captain (uncredited)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Movie · as Frenchman on Liner
Lady with a Past
Movie · as Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
The Night Club Lady
Movie · as Vincent Rowland
State's Attorney
Movie · as Mario
Men Are Such Fools
Movie · as Spinelli
As You Desire Me
Movie · as Captain
Careless Lady
Movie · as French Hotel Desk Clerk
Shopworn
Movie · as Andre
The Giddy Age
Movie · as Mabel's 1st Accomplice
Red-Headed Woman
Movie · as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
Freaks
Movie · as Landowner (uncredited)
The Doomed Battalion
Movie · as Captain Kessler
Heartbreak
Movie · as Liaison Officer
Just a Gigolo
Movie · as French Husband
This Modern Age
Movie · as André de Graignon
The Common Law
Movie · as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
The Boudoir Diplomat
Movie · as Emile
Strangers May Kiss
Movie · as De Bazan
Monte Carlo
Movie · as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
Sea Legs
Movie · as Captain
Morocco
Movie · as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
One Romantic Night
Movie · as Count Lutzen
Madam Satan
Movie · as Empire Officer
Oh, for a Man!
Movie · as Peck
Our Blushing Brides
Movie · as Monsieur Pantoise
Such Men Are Dangerous
Movie · as Paul Strohm
Fashion News
Movie
Captain Lash
Movie · as Alex Condax
Why Is a Plumber?
Movie
Jazz Heaven
Movie · as Walter Klucke
Saturday's Children
Movie · as Mengle
Lady of the Pavements
Movie · as Baron Finot
The Exalted Flapper
Movie · as King Alexander of Capra
The Legion of the Condemned
Movie · as Von Hohendorff
The Wedding March
Movie · as Imperial Guard
Show People
Movie · as Producer
The Magnificent Flirt
Movie · as Count D'Estrange
Plastered in Paris
Movie · as Abou Ben Abed
Alex The Great
Movie · as Ed
Stocks and Blondes
Movie · as Powers
Slipping Wives
Movie · as Hon. Winchester Squirtz
The Devil Dancer
Movie · as Arnold Guthrie
The Chinese Parrot
Movie · as Martin Thorne
Mockery
Movie · as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Camille
Movie · as Henri
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Movie · as Billie
South Sea Love
Movie · as Max Weber
Honeymoon Hate
Movie
Old Loves and New
Movie · as Dr. Chalmers
The Blonde Saint
Movie · as Andreas
Watch Your Wife
Movie · as Alphonse Marsac
The Eagle
Movie · as Kuschka
The Merry Widow
Movie · as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
Merry-Go-Round
Movie · as Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn