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