Name
Albert Conti
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1887-01-28
Deathday
1967-01-18 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
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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- 1934 The Black Cat as The Lieutenant
- 1928 The Legion of the Condemned as Von Hohendorff
- 1933 Shanghai Madness as Rigaud
- 1934 Fashions of 1934 as Savarin (uncredited)
- 1929 Captain Lash as Alex Condax
- 1932 The Greeks Had a Word for Them as Frenchman on Liner
- 1927 Slipping Wives as Hon. Winchester Squirtz
- 1934 Love Time as Nicholas
- 1935 The Night Is Young as Mueller (uncredited)
- 1931 Heartbreak as Liaison Officer
- 1932 Lady with a Past as Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
- 1930 Monte Carlo as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
- 1929 Why Is a Plumber?
- 1933 Topaze as Henri de Fairville
- 1931 Just a Gigolo as French Husband
- 1927 The Devil Dancer as Arnold Guthrie
- 1933 Gigolettes of Paris
- 1928 The Wedding March as Imperial Guard
- 1931 This Modern Age as André de Graignon
- 1935 Shadow of Doubt as Louie - Head Waiter
- 1932 The Night Club Lady as Vincent Rowland
- 1938 Always Goodbye as Modiste Benoit
- 1930 Sea Legs as Captain
- 1937 Café Metropole as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
- 1931 The Common Law as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1932 State's Attorney as Mario
- 1935 Symphony of Living as Mancini
- 1932 Men Are Such Fools as Spinelli
- 1932 As You Desire Me as Captain
- 1931 The Boudoir Diplomat as Emile
- 1929 Jazz Heaven as Walter Klucke
- 1932 Careless Lady as French Hotel Desk Clerk
- 1929 Saturday's Children as Mengle
- 1939 City in Darkness as Travel Agency Manager
- 1936 Fatal Lady as Headwaiter (uncredited)
- 1937 I'll Take Romance as Lepino
- 1927 The Chinese Parrot as Martin Thorne
- 1935 The Crusades as Leopold, Duke of Austria
- 1939 Everything Happens at Night as Maitre d'Hotel
- 1925 The Eagle as Kuschka
- 1929 Lady of the Pavements as Baron Finot
- 1936 Hollywood Boulevard as Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
- 1937 Dangerously Yours as Monet
- 1932 Shopworn as Andre
- 1930 Morocco as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
- 1930 One Romantic Night as Count Lutzen
- 1928 Show People as Producer
- 1927 Mockery as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
- 1935 Here's to Romance as LeFevre
- 1938 Gateway as Count
- 1935 Diamond Jim as Jeweler
- 1927 Camille as Henri
- 1930 Madam Satan as Empire Officer
- 1930 Oh, for a Man! as Peck
- 1923 Merry-Go-Round as Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
- 1926 The Merry Widow as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
- 1932 The Giddy Age as Mabel's 1st Accomplice
- 1938 Suez as M. Fevrier
- 1934 Mills of the Gods as Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
- 1931 Strangers May Kiss as De Bazan
- 1930 Our Blushing Brides as Monsieur Pantoise
- 1937 One in a Million as Hotel Manager
- 1932 Red-Headed Woman as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
- 1928 The Magnificent Flirt as Count D'Estrange
- 1933 Torch Singer as Carlotti
- 1927 Love Me and the World Is Mine as Billie
- 1933 The Secret of Madame Blanche as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
- 1935 Page Miss Glory as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
- 1926 Old Loves and New as Dr. Chalmers
- 1932 Freaks as Landowner (uncredited)
- 1926 The Blonde Saint as Andreas
- 1932 The Doomed Battalion as Captain Kessler
- 1930 Such Men Are Dangerous as Paul Strohm
- 1934 Beloved as Baron Franz von Hausmann
- 1927 South Sea Love as Max Weber
- 1929 The Exalted Flapper as King Alexander of Capra
- 1928 Plastered in Paris as Abou Ben Abed
- 1928 Alex The Great as Ed
- 1926 Watch Your Wife as Alphonse Marsac
- 1930 Fashion News
- 1928 Stocks and Blondes as Powers
- 1927 Honeymoon Hate
- 1934 Elmer and Elsie as Barlotti
