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Albert Conti

Albert Conti

Actor · 1887–1967 · Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]

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Biography

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.

Acted in 79

1930s

  1. 1939

    Everything Happens at Night

    Maitre d'Hotel

  2. City in Darkness

    Travel Agency Manager

  3. 1938

    Suez

    M. Fevrier

  4. Gateway

    Count

  5. Always Goodbye

    Modiste Benoit

  6. 1937

    I'll Take Romance

    Lepino

  7. Dangerously Yours

    Monet

  8. Café Metropole

    Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)

  9. One in a Million

    Hotel Manager

  10. 1936

    Hollywood Boulevard

    Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager

  11. Fatal Lady

    Headwaiter (uncredited)

  12. 1935

    Here's to Romance

    LeFevre

  13. Page Miss Glory

    Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)

  14. Diamond Jim

    Jeweler

  15. The Crusades

    Leopold, Duke of Austria

  16. Shadow of Doubt

    Louie - Head Waiter

  17. Symphony of Living

    Mancini

  18. The Night Is Young

    Mueller (uncredited)

  19. 1934

    Mills of the Gods

    Count Filippo Di Fraschiani

  20. Love Time

    Nicholas

  21. Elmer and Elsie

    Barlotti

  22. The Black Cat

    The Lieutenant

    74

  23. Fashions of 1934

    Savarin (uncredited)

  24. Beloved

    Baron Franz von Hausmann

  25. 1933

    Gigolettes of Paris

    Movie

  26. Torch Singer

    Carlotti

  27. Shanghai Madness

    Rigaud

  28. Adorable

    The Captain (uncredited)

  29. Topaze

    Henri de Fairville

  30. The Secret of Madame Blanche

    French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)

  31. 1932

    Men Are Such Fools

    Spinelli

  32. The Night Club Lady

    Vincent Rowland

  33. Red-Headed Woman

    Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)

  34. As You Desire Me

    Captain

  35. State's Attorney

    Mario

  36. The Doomed Battalion

    Captain Kessler

  37. Careless Lady

    French Hotel Desk Clerk

  38. Shopworn

    Andre

    65

  39. Lady with a Past

    Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier

  40. The Greeks Had a Word for Them

    Frenchman on Liner

  41. Freaks

    Landowner (uncredited)

    82
  42. 1931

    Heartbreak

    Liaison Officer

  43. This Modern Age

    André de Graignon

  44. The Common Law

    Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)

  45. Just a Gigolo

    French Husband

  46. Strangers May Kiss

    De Bazan

  47. 1930

    Sea Legs

    Captain

  48. Oh, for a Man!

    Peck

  49. Morocco

    Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)

    72

  50. Madam Satan

    Empire Officer

    56

  51. Monte Carlo

    Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.

  52. Our Blushing Brides

    Monsieur Pantoise

    60

  53. One Romantic Night

    Count Lutzen

  54. Such Men Are Dangerous

    Paul Strohm

1920s

  1. 1929

    Jazz Heaven

    Walter Klucke

  2. The Exalted Flapper

    King Alexander of Capra

  3. Why Is a Plumber?

    Movie

  4. Saturday's Children

    Mengle

  5. Lady of the Pavements

    Baron Finot

  6. Captain Lash

    Alex Condax

  7. 1928

    Show People

    Producer

    79

  8. The Wedding March

    Imperial Guard

    71

  9. Stocks and Blondes

    Powers

  10. The Magnificent Flirt

    Count D'Estrange

  11. The Legion of the Condemned

    Von Hohendorff

  12. 1927

    South Sea Love

    Max Weber

  13. Honeymoon Hate

    Movie · Comedy · Romance

  14. The Devil Dancer

    Arnold Guthrie

  15. The Chinese Parrot

    Martin Thorne

  16. Love Me and the World Is Mine

    Billie

  17. Camille

    Henri

  18. Mockery

    Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)

  19. Slipping Wives

    Hon. Winchester Squirtz

  20. 1926

    The Blonde Saint

    Andreas

  21. Old Loves and New

    Dr. Chalmers

  22. Watch Your Wife

    Alphonse Marsac

  23. 1925

    The Eagle

    Kuschka

  24. The Merry Widow

    Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)

  25. 1923

    Merry-Go-Round

    Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn

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