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