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