1887-01-28 Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
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.
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City in Darkness | Travel Agency Manager | 1939-11-15 |
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Everything Happens at Night | Maitre d'Hotel | 1939-12-22 |
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Always Goodbye | Modiste Benoit | 1938-06-24 |
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Suez | M. Fevrier | 1938-10-28 |
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Gateway | Count | 1938-08-05 |
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I'll Take Romance | Lepino | 1937-11-17 |
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Café Metropole | Gendarme at Jail (uncredited) | 1937-04-28 |
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One in a Million | Hotel Manager | 1937-01-01 |
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Dangerously Yours | Monet | 1937-09-21 |
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Hollywood Boulevard | Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager | 1936-08-20 |
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Fatal Lady | Headwaiter (uncredited) | 1936-05-15 |
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Symphony of Living | Mancini | 1935-01-19 |
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Shadow of Doubt | Louie - Head Waiter | 1935-02-15 |
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Page Miss Glory | Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited) | 1935-09-07 |
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The Crusades | Leopold, Duke of Austria | 1935-08-21 |
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Diamond Jim | Jeweler | 1935-09-01 |
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Here's to Romance | LeFevre | 1935-10-04 |
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The Night Is Young | Mueller (uncredited) | 1935-01-11 |
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Beloved | Baron Franz von Hausmann | 1934-01-22 |
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Mills of the Gods | Count Filippo Di Fraschiani | 1934-12-15 |
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The Black Cat | The Lieutenant | 1934-05-07 |
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Love Time | Nicholas | 1934-11-03 |
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Fashions of 1934 | Savarin (uncredited) | 1934-02-14 |
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The Secret of Madame Blanche | French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited) | 1933-02-03 |
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Topaze | Henri de Fairville | 1933-02-24 |
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Shanghai Madness | Rigaud | 1933-08-03 |
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Torch Singer | Carlotti | 1933-09-08 |
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Gigolettes of Paris | 1933-10-05 | |
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The Night Club Lady | Vincent Rowland | 1932-08-27 |
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The Giddy Age | Mabel's 1st Accomplice | 1932-09-25 |
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Red-Headed Woman | Frenchman in Paris (uncredited) | 1932-06-25 |
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Frenchman on Liner | 1932-02-03 |
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Freaks | Landowner (uncredited) | 1932-01-01 |
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The Doomed Battalion | Captain Kessler | 1932-04-30 |
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Lady with a Past | Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier | 1932-02-19 |
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Shopworn | Andre | 1932-03-25 |
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Men Are Such Fools | Spinelli | 1932-11-18 |
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As You Desire Me | Captain | 1932-05-28 |
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Careless Lady | French Hotel Desk Clerk | 1932-04-02 |
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State's Attorney | Mario | 1932-05-20 |
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Strangers May Kiss | De Bazan | 1931-04-04 |
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This Modern Age | André de Graignon | 1931-08-29 |
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The Common Law | Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited) | 1931-07-17 |
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Liebe auf Befehl | Emile | 1931-02-17 |
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Heartbreak | Liaison Officer | 1931-11-08 |
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Just a Gigolo | French Husband | 1931-06-06 |
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Oh, for a Man! | Peck | 1930-11-28 |
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One Romantic Night | Count Lutzen | 1930-04-30 |
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Our Blushing Brides | Monsieur Pantoise | 1930-07-19 |
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Madam Satan | Empire Officer | 1930-09-20 |
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Such Men Are Dangerous | Paul Strohm | 1930-03-09 |
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Sea Legs | Captain | 1930-12-01 |
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Monte Carlo | Prince Otto's Companion / M.C. | 1930-08-27 |
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Morocco | Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited) | 1930-11-14 |
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Die Lady von der Straße | Baron Finot | 1929-01-22 |
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Captain Lash | Alex Condax | 1929-01-06 |
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The Exalted Flapper | King Alexander of Capra | 1929-06-09 |
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Why Is a Plumber? | 1929-03-30 | |
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Jazz Heaven | Walter Klucke | 1929-11-03 |
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Saturday's Children | Mengle | 1929-03-10 |
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Show People | Producer | 1928-11-20 |
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The Magnificent Flirt | Count D'Estrange | 1928-06-02 |
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Plastered in Paris | Abou Ben Abed | 1928-09-23 |
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The Legion of the Condemned | Von Hohendorff | 1928-03-10 |
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The Wedding March | Imperial Guard | 1928-10-06 |
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South Sea Love | Max Weber | 1927-12-10 |
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Mockery | Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited) | 1927-08-13 |
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The Chinese Parrot | Martin Thorne | 1927-10-23 |
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Love Me and the World Is Mine | Billie | 1927-09-26 |
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Slipping Wives | Hon. Winchester Squirtz | 1927-04-03 |
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The Devil Dancer | Arnold Guthrie | 1927-11-03 |
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Camille | Henri | 1927-09-04 |
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The Blonde Saint | Andreas | 1926-11-20 |
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Old Loves and New | Dr. Chalmers | 1926-04-11 |
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The Merry Widow | Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited) | 1926-09-27 |
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The Eagle | Kuschka | 1925-11-08 |
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Merry-Go-Round | Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn | 1923-07-01 |
