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Albert Conti

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1887-01-28

Day of Death

1967-01-18

Place of Birth

Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]

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.

Filmography (83)

⭐ 5.3 Role: Maitre d'Hotel

Everything Happens at Night

1939
⭐ 6.5 Role: Travel Agency Manager

City in Darkness

1939
⭐ 5.5 Role: M. Fevrier

Suez

1938
⭐ 7.4 Role: Count

Gateway

1938
⭐ 7.2 Role: Modiste Benoit

Always Goodbye

1938
⭐ 6.3 Role: Lepino

I'll Take Romance

1937
⭐ 5.6 Role: Monet

Dangerously Yours

1937
⭐ 7.2 Role: Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)

Café Metropole

1937
⭐ 7.0 Role: Hotel Manager

One in a Million

1937
⭐ 4.5 Role: Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager

Hollywood Boulevard

1936
⭐ 10.0 Role: Headwaiter (uncredited)

Fatal Lady

1936
⭐ 7.0 Role: LeFevre

Here's to Romance

1935
⭐ 6.7 Role: Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)

Page Miss Glory

1935
⭐ 6.5 Role: Jeweler

Diamond Jim

1935
⭐ 6.4 Role: Leopold, Duke of Austria

The Crusades

1935