Albert Conti
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1887-01-28
Deathday 1967-01-18 (79 years old)
Place of Birth Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
Also Known As Albert De Conti Cadassamare
Albert Conti
Biography
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
Actor
as Maitre d'Hotel
as Travel Agency Manager
as M. Fevrier
as Count
as Modiste Benoit
as Lepino
as Monet
as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
as Hotel Manager
as Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
as Headwaiter (uncredited)
as LeFevre
as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
as Jeweler
as Leopold, Duke of Austria
as Louie - Head Waiter
as Mancini
as Mueller (uncredited)
as Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
as Nicholas
as The Lieutenant
as Savarin (uncredited)
as Baron Franz von Hausmann
as Carlotti
as Rigaud
as Henri de Fairville
as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
as Spinelli
as Mabel's 1st Accomplice
as Vincent Rowland
as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
as Captain
as Mario
as Captain Kessler
as French Hotel Desk Clerk
as Andre
as Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
as Frenchman on Liner
as Landowner (uncredited)
as Liaison Officer
as André de Graignon
as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
as French Husband
as De Bazan
as Emile
as Captain
as Peck
as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
as Empire Officer
as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
as Monsieur Pantoise
as Count Lutzen
as Paul Strohm
as Walter Klucke
as Mengle
as Baron Finot
as Alex Condax
as Producer
as Imperial Guard
as Count D'Estrange
as Von Hohendorff
as Max Weber
as Arnold Guthrie
as Martin Thorne
as Billie
as Henri
as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
as Hon. Winchester Squirtz
as Andreas
as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
as Dr. Chalmers
as Kuschka
as Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
Producer
as Production Assistant