Acting · Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy] · Born January 28, 1887
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.
MovieEverything Happens at Night
1939
as Maitre d'Hotel
MovieCity in Darkness
1939
as Travel Agency Manager
MovieSuez
1938
as M. Fevrier
MovieGateway
1938
as Count
MovieAlways Goodbye
1938
as Modiste Benoit
MovieI'll Take Romance
1937
as Lepino
MovieDangerously Yours
1937
as Monet
MovieCafé Metropole
1937
as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
MovieOne in a Million
1937
as Hotel Manager
MovieHollywood Boulevard
1936
as Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
MovieFatal Lady
1936
as Headwaiter (uncredited)
MovieHere's to Romance
1935
as LeFevre
MoviePage Miss Glory
1935
as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
MovieDiamond Jim
1935
as Jeweler
MovieThe Crusades
1935
as Leopold, Duke of Austria
MovieShadow of Doubt
1935
as Louie - Head Waiter
MovieSymphony of Living
1935
as Mancini
MovieThe Night Is Young
1935
as Mueller (uncredited)
MovieMills of the Gods
1934
as Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
MovieLove Time
1934
as Nicholas
Elmer and Elsie
1934
as Barlotti
MovieThe Black Cat
1934
as The Lieutenant
MovieFashions of 1934
1934
as Savarin (uncredited)
MovieBeloved
1934
as Baron Franz von Hausmann
MovieGigolettes of Paris
1933
MovieTorch Singer
1933
as Carlotti
MovieShanghai Madness
1933
as Rigaud
MovieTopaze
1933
as Henri de Fairville
MovieThe Secret of Madame Blanche
1933
as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
MovieMen Are Such Fools
1932
as Spinelli
The Giddy Age
1932
as Mabel's 1st Accomplice
MovieThe Night Club Lady
1932
as Vincent Rowland
MovieRed-Headed Woman
1932
as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
MovieAs You Desire Me
1932
as Captain
MovieState's Attorney
1932
as Mario
MovieThe Doomed Battalion
1932
as Captain Kessler
MovieCareless Lady
1932
as French Hotel Desk Clerk
MovieShopworn
1932
as Andre
MovieLady with a Past
1932
as Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
MovieThe Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
as Frenchman on Liner
MovieFreaks
1932
as Landowner (uncredited)
MovieHeartbreak
1931
as Liaison Officer
MovieThis Modern Age
1931
as André de Graignon
MovieThe Common Law
1931
as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
MovieJust a Gigolo
1931
as French Husband
MovieStrangers May Kiss
1931
as De Bazan
The Boudoir Diplomat
1931
as Emile
MovieSea Legs
1930
as Captain
MovieOh, for a Man!
1930
as Peck
MovieMorocco
1930
as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
MovieMadam Satan
1930
as Empire Officer
MovieMonte Carlo
1930
as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
MovieOur Blushing Brides
1930
as Monsieur Pantoise
MovieOne Romantic Night
1930
as Count Lutzen
MovieSuch Men Are Dangerous
1930
as Paul Strohm
Fashion News
1930
MovieJazz Heaven
1929
as Walter Klucke
MovieThe Exalted Flapper
1929
as King Alexander of Capra
MovieWhy Is a Plumber?
1929
MovieSaturday's Children
1929
as Mengle
MovieLady of the Pavements
1929
as Baron Finot
MovieCaptain Lash
1929
as Alex Condax
MovieShow People
1928
as Producer
MovieThe Wedding March
1928
as Imperial Guard
Plastered in Paris
1928
as Abou Ben Abed
MovieStocks and Blondes
1928
as Powers
MovieThe Magnificent Flirt
1928
as Count D'Estrange
Alex The Great
1928
as Ed
MovieThe Legion of the Condemned
1928
as Von Hohendorff
MovieSouth Sea Love
1927
as Max Weber
MovieHoneymoon Hate
1927
MovieThe Devil Dancer
1927
as Arnold Guthrie
MovieThe Chinese Parrot
1927
as Martin Thorne
MovieLove Me and the World Is Mine
1927
as Billie
MovieCamille
1927
as Henri
MovieMockery
1927
as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
MovieSlipping Wives
1927
as Hon. Winchester Squirtz
MovieThe Blonde Saint
1926
as Andreas
MovieThe Merry Widow
1926
as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
MovieOld Loves and New
1926
as Dr. Chalmers
MovieWatch Your Wife
1926
as Alphonse Marsac
MovieThe Eagle
1925
as Kuschka
MovieMerry-Go-Round
1923
as Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
