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.
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Películas (85)
Everything Happens at Night
1939 · Maitre d'Hotel
City in Darkness
1939 · Travel Agency Manager
Suez
1938 · M. Fevrier
Gateway
1938 · Count
Always Goodbye
1938 · Modiste Benoit
I'll Take Romance
1937 · Lepino
Dangerously Yours
1937 · Monet
Café Metropole
1937 · Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
One in a Million
1937 · Hotel Manager
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 · Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
Fatal Lady
1936 · Headwaiter (uncredited)
Here's to Romance
1935 · LeFevre
Page Miss Glory
1935 · Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
Diamond Jim
1935 · Jeweler
The Crusades
1935 · Leopold, Duke of Austria
Shadow of Doubt
1935 · Louie - Head Waiter
Symphony of Living
1935 · Mancini
The Night Is Young
1935 · Mueller (uncredited)
Mills of the Gods
1934 · Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
Love Time
1934 · Nicholas
Elmer and Elsie
1934 · Barlotti
The Black Cat
1934 · The Lieutenant
Fashions of 1934
1934 · Savarin (uncredited)
Beloved
1934 · Baron Franz von Hausmann
Gigolettes of Paris
1933
Torch Singer
1933 · Carlotti
Shanghai Madness
1933 · Rigaud
Adorable
1933 · The Captain (uncredited)
Topaze
1933 · Henri de Fairville
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Men Are Such Fools
1932 · Spinelli
The Giddy Age
1932 · Mabel's 1st Accomplice
The Night Club Lady
1932 · Vincent Rowland
Red-Headed Woman
1932 · Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
As You Desire Me
1932 · Captain
State's Attorney
1932 · Mario
The Doomed Battalion
1932 · Captain Kessler
Careless Lady
1932 · French Hotel Desk Clerk
Shopworn
1932 · Andre
Lady with a Past
1932 · Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · Frenchman on Liner
Freaks
1932 · Landowner (uncredited)
Heartbreak
1931 · Liaison Officer
This Modern Age
1931 · André de Graignon
The Common Law
1931 · Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
Just a Gigolo
1931 · French Husband
Strangers May Kiss
1931 · De Bazan
The Boudoir Diplomat
1931 · Emile
Sea Legs
1930 · Captain
Oh, for a Man!
1930 · Peck
Morocco
1930 · Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
Madam Satan
1930 · Empire Officer
Monte Carlo
1930 · Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
Our Blushing Brides
1930 · Monsieur Pantoise
One Romantic Night
1930 · Count Lutzen
Such Men Are Dangerous
1930 · Paul Strohm
Fashion News
1930
Jazz Heaven
1929 · Walter Klucke
The Exalted Flapper
1929 · King Alexander of Capra
Why Is a Plumber?
1929
Saturday's Children
1929 · Mengle
Lady of the Pavements
1929 · Baron Finot
Captain Lash
1929 · Alex Condax
Show People
1928 · Producer
The Wedding March
1928 · Imperial Guard
Plastered in Paris
1928 · Abou Ben Abed
Stocks and Blondes
1928 · Powers
The Magnificent Flirt
1928 · Count D'Estrange
Alex The Great
1928 · Ed
The Legion of the Condemned
1928 · Von Hohendorff
South Sea Love
1927 · Max Weber
Honeymoon Hate
1927
The Devil Dancer
1927 · Arnold Guthrie
The Chinese Parrot
1927 · Martin Thorne
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927 · Billie
Camille
1927 · Henri
Mockery
1927 · Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Slipping Wives
1927 · Hon. Winchester Squirtz
The Blonde Saint
1926 · Andreas
Old Loves and New
1926 · Dr. Chalmers
Watch Your Wife
1926 · Alphonse Marsac
The Eagle
1925 · Kuschka
The Merry Widow
1925 · Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 · Production Assistant
Merry-Go-Round
1923 · Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
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