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