Albert Conti
Born
January 28, 1887
Died
January 18, 1967 (79 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
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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.
Everything Happens at Night
Maitre d'Hotel
1939
City in Darkness
Travel Agency Manager
1939
Suez
M. Fevrier
1938
Gateway
Count
1938
Always Goodbye
Modiste Benoit
1938
I'll Take Romance
Lepino
1937
Dangerously Yours
Monet
1937
Café Metropole
Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
1937
One in a Million
Hotel Manager
1937
Hollywood Boulevard
Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
1936
Fatal Lady
Headwaiter (uncredited)
1936
Here's to Romance
LeFevre
1935
Page Miss Glory
Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
1935
Diamond Jim
Jeweler
1935
The Crusades
Leopold, Duke of Austria
1935
Shadow of Doubt
Louie - Head Waiter
1935
Symphony of Living
Mancini
1935
The Night Is Young
Mueller (uncredited)
1935
Mills of the Gods
Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
1934
Love Time
Nicholas
1934
The Black Cat
The Lieutenant
1934
Fashions of 1934
Savarin (uncredited)
1934
Beloved
Baron Franz von Hausmann
1934
Gigolettes of Paris
1933
Torch Singer
Carlotti
1933
Shanghai Madness
Rigaud
1933
Topaze
Henri de Fairville
1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
1933
Men Are Such Fools
Spinelli
1932
The Giddy Age
Mabel's 1st Accomplice
1932
The Night Club Lady
Vincent Rowland
1932
Red-Headed Woman
Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
1932
As You Desire Me
Captain
1932
State's Attorney
Mario
1932
The Doomed Battalion
Captain Kessler
1932
Careless Lady
French Hotel Desk Clerk
1932
Shopworn
Andre
1932
Lady with a Past
Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
1932
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Frenchman on Liner
1932
Freaks
Landowner (uncredited)
1932
Heartbreak
Liaison Officer
1931
This Modern Age
André de Graignon
1931
The Common Law
Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
1931
Just a Gigolo
French Husband
1931
Strangers May Kiss
De Bazan
1931
The Boudoir Diplomat
Emile
1931
Sea Legs
Captain
1930
Oh, for a Man!
Peck
1930
Morocco
Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
1930
Madam Satan
Empire Officer
1930
Monte Carlo
Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
1930
Our Blushing Brides
Monsieur Pantoise
1930
One Romantic Night
Count Lutzen
1930
Such Men Are Dangerous
Paul Strohm
1930
Jazz Heaven
Walter Klucke
1929
The Exalted Flapper
King Alexander of Capra
1929
Why Is a Plumber?
1929
Saturday's Children
Mengle
1929
Lady of the Pavements
Baron Finot
1929
Captain Lash
Alex Condax
1929
Show People
Producer
1928
The Wedding March
Imperial Guard
1928
The Magnificent Flirt
Count D'Estrange
1928
The Legion of the Condemned
Von Hohendorff
1928
South Sea Love
Max Weber
1927
The Devil Dancer
Arnold Guthrie
1927
The Chinese Parrot
Martin Thorne
1927
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Billie
1927
Camille
Henri
1927
Mockery
Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
1927
Slipping Wives
Hon. Winchester Squirtz
1927
The Blonde Saint
Andreas
1926
The Merry Widow
Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
1926
Old Loves and New
Dr. Chalmers
1926
The Eagle
Kuschka
1925
Merry-Go-Round
Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
1923