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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Everything Happens at Night | Maitre d'Hotel | 1939-12-22 |
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City in Darkness | Travel Agency Manager | 1939-11-15 |
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Suez | M. Fevrier | 1938-10-28 |
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Gateway | Count | 1938-08-05 |
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Always Goodbye | Modiste Benoit | 1938-06-24 |
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Dangerously Yours | Monet | 1937-09-21 |
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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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Fatal Lady | Headwaiter (uncredited) | 1936-05-15 |
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Hollywood Boulevard | Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager | 1936-08-20 |
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The Crusades | Leopold, Duke of Austria | 1935-08-21 |
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Shadow of Doubt | Louie - Head Waiter | 1935-02-15 |
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Here's to Romance | LeFevre | 1935-10-04 |
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Diamond Jim | Jeweler | 1935-09-01 |
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Symphony of Living | Mancini | 1935-01-19 |
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Page Miss Glory | Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited) | 1935-09-07 |
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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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Fashions of 1934 | Savarin (uncredited) | 1934-02-14 |
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Mills of the Gods | Count Filippo Di Fraschiani | 1934-12-15 |
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Love Time | Nicholas | 1934-11-03 |
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The Black Cat | The Lieutenant | 1934-05-07 |
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Shanghai Madness | Rigaud | 1933-08-03 |
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Topaze | Henri de Fairville | 1933-02-24 |
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Gigolettes of Paris | 1933-10-05 | |
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Torch Singer | Carlotti | 1933-09-08 |
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The Secret of Madame Blanche | French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited) | 1933-02-03 |
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Shopworn | Andre | 1932-03-25 |
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Careless Lady | French Hotel Desk Clerk | 1932-04-02 |
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Red-Headed Woman | Frenchman in Paris (uncredited) | 1932-06-25 |
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Men Are Such Fools | Spinelli | 1932-11-18 |
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The Doomed Battalion | Captain Kessler | 1932-04-30 |
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them | Frenchman on Liner | 1932-02-03 |
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Lady with a Past | Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier | 1932-02-19 |
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The Night Club Lady | Vincent Rowland | 1932-08-27 |
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Freaks | Landowner (uncredited) | 1932-01-01 |
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State's Attorney | Mario | 1932-05-20 |
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The Giddy Age | Mabel's 1st Accomplice | 1932-09-25 |
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As You Desire Me | Captain | 1932-05-28 |
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Strangers May Kiss | De Bazan | 1931-04-04 |
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Liebe auf Befehl | Emile | 1931-02-17 |
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Just a Gigolo | French Husband | 1931-06-06 |
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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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Heartbreak | Liaison Officer | 1931-11-08 |
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Madam Satan | Empire Officer | 1930-09-20 |
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Oh, for a Man! | Peck | 1930-11-28 |
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Fashion News | 1930-01-01 | |
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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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Morocco | Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited) | 1930-11-14 |
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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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Monte Carlo | Prince Otto's Companion / M.C. | 1930-08-27 |
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The Exalted Flapper | King Alexander of Capra | 1929-06-09 |
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Die Lady von der Straße | Baron Finot | 1929-01-22 |
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Why Is a Plumber? | 1929-03-30 | |
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Captain Lash | Alex Condax | 1929-01-06 |
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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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Plastered in Paris | Abou Ben Abed | 1928-09-23 |
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Stocks and Blondes | Powers | 1928-09-09 |
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The Wedding March | Imperial Guard | 1928-10-06 |
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Alex The Great | Ed | 1928-05-13 |
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The Legion of the Condemned | Von Hohendorff | 1928-03-10 |
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The Magnificent Flirt | Count D'Estrange | 1928-06-02 |
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Show People | Producer | 1928-11-20 |
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Slipping Wives | Hon. Winchester Squirtz | 1927-04-03 |
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South Sea Love | Max Weber | 1927-12-10 |
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Camille | Henri | 1927-09-04 |
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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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The Devil Dancer | Arnold Guthrie | 1927-11-03 |
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Watch Your Wife | Alphonse Marsac | 1926-04-04 |
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Old Loves and New | Dr. Chalmers | 1926-04-11 |
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The Blonde Saint | Andreas | 1926-11-20 |
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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 |
