Albert Conti

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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.

Freaks

Landowner (uncredited)

The Black Cat

The Lieutenant

The Wedding March

Imperial Guard

Morocco

Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)

The Eagle

Kuschka

As You Desire Me

Captain

Show People

Producer

Dangerously Yours

Monet

Red-Headed Woman

Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)

City in Darkness

Travel Agency Manager

Suez

M. Fevrier

Torch Singer

Carlotti

I'll Take Romance

Lepino

The Crusades

Leopold, Duke of Austria

Hollywood Boulevard

Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager

Lady with a Past

Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier

Madam Satan

Empire Officer

Fashions of 1934

Savarin (uncredited)

Topaze

Henri de Fairville

One in a Million

Hotel Manager

Mockery

Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)

Shopworn

Andre

Merry-Go-Round

Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn

Men Are Such Fools

Spinelli

Here's to Romance

LeFevre

Our Blushing Brides

Monsieur Pantoise

Gateway

Count

Heartbreak

Liaison Officer

The Secret of Madame Blanche

French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)

Love Time

Nicholas

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

Frenchman on Liner

The Chinese Parrot

Martin Thorne

Shadow of Doubt

Louie - Head Waiter

The Common Law

Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)

Love Me and the World Is Mine

Billie

Lady of the Pavements

Baron Finot

Always Goodbye

Modiste Benoit

Café Metropole

Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)

The Legion of the Condemned

Von Hohendorff

Everything Happens at Night

Maitre d'Hotel

Page Miss Glory

Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)

The Blonde Saint

Andreas

Monte Carlo

Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.

Captain Lash

Alex Condax

Slipping Wives

Hon. Winchester Squirtz

The Devil Dancer

Arnold Guthrie

Just a Gigolo

French Husband

Diamond Jim

Jeweler

Why Is a Plumber?

Fatal Lady

Headwaiter (uncredited)

State's Attorney

Mario

The Night Club Lady

Vincent Rowland

Beloved

Baron Franz von Hausmann

Such Men Are Dangerous

Paul Strohm

Gigolettes of Paris

The Night Is Young

Mueller (uncredited)

Symphony of Living

Mancini

Mills of the Gods

Count Filippo Di Fraschiani

South Sea Love

Max Weber

The Exalted Flapper

King Alexander of Capra

Strangers May Kiss

De Bazan

The Merry Widow

Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)

The Magnificent Flirt

Count D'Estrange

Shanghai Madness

Rigaud

Old Loves and New

Dr. Chalmers

Careless Lady

French Hotel Desk Clerk

Sea Legs