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