Albert Conti

DOB: 1887-01-28

DOD: 1967-01-18

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.

Starred In

1934
Movie

The Black Cat

1933
Movie

Shanghai Madness

1934
Movie

Fashions of 1934

1929
Movie

Captain Lash

1927
Movie

Slipping Wives

1934
Movie

Love Time

1935
Movie

The Night Is Young

1931
Movie

Heartbreak

1932
Movie

Lady with a Past

1930
Movie

Monte Carlo

1929
Movie

Why Is a Plumber?

1933
Movie

Topaze

1931
Movie

Just a Gigolo

1927
Movie

The Devil Dancer

1928
Movie

The Wedding March

1931
Movie

This Modern Age

1935
Movie

Shadow of Doubt

1938
Movie

Always Goodbye

1930
Movie

Sea Legs

1937
Movie

Café Metropole

1931
Movie

The Common Law

1932
Movie

State's Attorney

1935
Movie

Symphony of Living

1932
Movie

Men Are Such Fools

1932
Movie

As You Desire Me

1929
Movie

Jazz Heaven

1932
Movie

Careless Lady

1939
Movie

City in Darkness

1936
Movie

Fatal Lady

1937
Movie

I'll Take Romance

1927
Movie

The Chinese Parrot

1935
Movie

The Crusades

1925
Movie

The Eagle

1937
Movie

Dangerously Yours

1932
Movie

Shopworn

1930
Movie

Morocco

1930
Movie

One Romantic Night

1928
Movie

Show People

1927
Movie

Mockery

1935
Movie

Here's to Romance

1938
Movie

Gateway

1935
Movie

Diamond Jim

1927
Movie

Camille

1930
Movie

Madam Satan

1930
Movie

Oh, for a Man!

1923
Movie

Merry-Go-Round

1926
Movie

The Merry Widow

1932
Movie

The Giddy Age

1938
Movie

Suez

1934
Movie

Mills of the Gods

1931
Movie

Strangers May Kiss

1937
Movie

One in a Million

1932
Movie

Red-Headed Woman

1933
Movie

Torch Singer

1935
Movie

Page Miss Glory

1926
Movie

Old Loves and New

1932
Movie

Freaks

1926
Movie

The Blonde Saint

1934
Movie

Beloved

1927
Movie

South Sea Love

1928
Movie

Plastered in Paris