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