Acting
75
Man
28 Jan 1887
18 Jan 1967 (79)
Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
Albert Conti
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1939 | City in Darkness | Travel Agency Manager |
1939 | Everything Happens at Night | Maitre d'Hotel |
1938 | Suez | M. Fevrier |
1938 | Always Goodbye | Modiste Benoit |
1938 | Gateway | Count |
1937 | Café Metropole | Gendarme at Jail (uncredited) |
1937 | One in a Million | Hotel Manager |
1937 | I'll Take Romance | Lepino |
1937 | Dangerously Yours | Monet |
1936 | Hollywood Boulevard | Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager |
1936 | Fatal Lady | Headwaiter (uncredited) |
1935 | The Crusades | Leopold, Duke of Austria |
1935 | Page Miss Glory | Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited) |
1935 | Shadow of Doubt | Louie - Head Waiter |
1935 | Symphony of Living | Mancini |
1935 | The Night Is Young | Mueller (uncredited) |
1935 | Diamond Jim | Jeweler |
1935 | Here's to Romance | LeFevre |
1934 | The Black Cat | The Lieutenant |
1934 | Fashions of 1934 | Savarin (uncredited) |
1934 | Love Time | Nicholas |
1934 | Mills of the Gods | Count Filippo Di Fraschiani |
1934 | Beloved | Baron Franz von Hausmann |
1933 | Topaze | Henri de Fairville |
1933 | Torch Singer | Carlotti |
1933 | The Secret of Madame Blanche | French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited) |
1933 | Gigolettes of Paris | |
1933 | Shanghai Madness | Rigaud |
1932 | Freaks | Landowner (uncredited) |
1932 | Red-Headed Woman | Frenchman in Paris (uncredited) |
1932 | As You Desire Me | Captain |
1932 | Shopworn | Andre |
1932 | The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Frenchman on Liner |
1932 | Lady with a Past | Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier |
1932 | State's Attorney | Mario |
1932 | The Night Club Lady | Vincent Rowland |
1932 | Careless Lady | French Hotel Desk Clerk |
1932 | Men Are Such Fools | Spinelli |
1932 | The Giddy Age | Mabel's 1st Accomplice |
1932 | The Doomed Battalion | Captain Kessler |
1931 | The Common Law | Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited) |
1931 | This Modern Age | André de Graignon |
1931 | Strangers May Kiss | De Bazan |
1931 | Just a Gigolo | French Husband |
1931 | Heartbreak | Liaison Officer |
1931 | The Boudoir Diplomat | Emile |
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 | Oh, for a Man! | Peck |
1930 | Sea Legs | Captain |
1929 | Lady of the Pavements | Baron Finot |
1929 | Jazz Heaven | Walter Klucke |
1929 | Captain Lash | Alex Condax |
1929 | Why Is a Plumber? | |
1929 | Saturday's Children | Mengle |
1928 | Show People | Producer |
1928 | The Wedding March | Imperial Guard |
1928 | The Legion of the Condemned | Von Hohendorff |
1928 | The Magnificent Flirt | Count D'Estrange |
1927 | Slipping Wives | Hon. Winchester Squirtz |
1927 | Mockery | Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited) |
1927 | Camille | Henri |
1927 | The Devil Dancer | Arnold Guthrie |
1927 | The Chinese Parrot | Martin Thorne |
1927 | Love Me and the World is Mine | Billie |
1926 | The Merry Widow | Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited) |
1926 | Old Loves and New | Dr. Chalmers |
1926 | The Blonde Saint | Andreas |
1925 | The Eagle | Kuschka |
1923 | Merry-Go-Round | Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1923 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Production Assistant |