Albert Conti
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 28, 1887
- Died
- Jan 18, 1967 (aged 79)
- Place of birth
- Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
- Credits
- 84
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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.
Known for
Freaks
1932Movie
Landowner (uncredited)
The Black Cat
1934Movie
The Lieutenant
Morocco
1930Movie
Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
The Eagle
1925Movie
Kuschka
Red-Headed Woman
1932Movie
Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
Show People
1928Movie
Producer
Filmography
Everything Happens at Night
1939Movie
Maitre d'Hotel
City in Darkness
1939Movie
Travel Agency Manager
Suez
1938Movie
M. Fevrier
Gateway
1938Movie
Count
Always Goodbye
1938Movie
Modiste Benoit
I'll Take Romance
1937Movie
Lepino
Dangerously Yours
1937Movie
Monet
Café Metropole
1937Movie
Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
One in a Million
1937Movie
Hotel Manager
Hollywood Boulevard
1936Movie
Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
Fatal Lady
1936Movie
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Here's to Romance
1935Movie
LeFevre
Page Miss Glory
1935Movie
Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
Diamond Jim
1935Movie
Jeweler
The Crusades
1935Movie
Leopold, Duke of Austria
Shadow of Doubt
1935Movie
Louie - Head Waiter
Symphony of Living
1935Movie
Mancini
The Night Is Young
1935Movie
Mueller (uncredited)
Mills of the Gods
1934Movie
Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
Love Time
1934Movie
Nicholas
Elmer and Elsie
1934Movie
Barlotti
The Black Cat
1934Movie
The Lieutenant
Fashions of 1934
1934Movie
Savarin (uncredited)
Beloved
1934Movie
Baron Franz von Hausmann
Gigolettes of Paris
1933Movie
Torch Singer
1933Movie
Carlotti
Shanghai Madness
1933Movie
Rigaud
Adorable
1933Movie
The Captain (uncredited)
Topaze
1933Movie
Henri de Fairville
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933Movie
French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Men Are Such Fools
1932Movie
Spinelli
The Giddy Age
1932Movie
Mabel's 1st Accomplice
The Night Club Lady
1932Movie
Vincent Rowland
Red-Headed Woman
1932Movie
Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
As You Desire Me
1932Movie
Captain
State's Attorney
1932Movie
Mario
The Doomed Battalion
1932Movie
Captain Kessler
Careless Lady
1932Movie
French Hotel Desk Clerk
Shopworn
1932Movie
Andre
Lady with a Past
1932Movie
Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932Movie
Frenchman on Liner
Freaks
1932Movie
Landowner (uncredited)
Heartbreak
1931Movie
Liaison Officer
This Modern Age
1931Movie
André de Graignon
The Common Law
1931Movie
Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
Just a Gigolo
1931Movie
French Husband
Strangers May Kiss
1931Movie
De Bazan
The Boudoir Diplomat
1931Movie
Emile
Sea Legs
1930Movie
Captain
Oh, for a Man!
1930Movie
Peck
Morocco
1930Movie
Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
Madam Satan
1930Movie
Empire Officer
Monte Carlo
1930Movie
Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
Our Blushing Brides
1930Movie
Monsieur Pantoise
One Romantic Night
1930Movie
Count Lutzen
Such Men Are Dangerous
1930Movie
Paul Strohm
Fashion News
1930Movie
Jazz Heaven
1929Movie
Walter Klucke
The Exalted Flapper
1929Movie
King Alexander of Capra
Why Is a Plumber?
1929Movie
Saturday's Children
1929Movie
Mengle
Lady of the Pavements
1929Movie
Baron Finot
Captain Lash
1929Movie
Alex Condax
Show People
1928Movie
Producer
The Wedding March
1928Movie
Imperial Guard
Plastered in Paris
1928Movie
Abou Ben Abed
Stocks and Blondes
1928Movie
Powers
The Magnificent Flirt
1928Movie
Count D'Estrange
Alex The Great
1928Movie
Ed
The Legion of the Condemned
1928Movie
Von Hohendorff
South Sea Love
1927Movie
Max Weber
Honeymoon Hate
1927Movie
The Devil Dancer
1927Movie
Arnold Guthrie
The Chinese Parrot
1927Movie
Martin Thorne
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927Movie
Billie
Camille
1927Movie
Henri
Mockery
1927Movie
Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Slipping Wives
1927Movie
Hon. Winchester Squirtz
The Blonde Saint
1926Movie
Andreas
Old Loves and New
1926Movie
Dr. Chalmers
Watch Your Wife
1926Movie
Alphonse Marsac
The Eagle
1925Movie
Kuschka
The Merry Widow
1925Movie
Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
Merry-Go-Round
1923Movie
Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn