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