Acting
Albert Conti
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
City in Darkness
Film · 1939
Everything Happens at Night
Film · 1939
Always Goodbye
Film · 1938
Gateway
Film · 1938
Suez
Film · 1938
Café Metropole
Film · 1937
I'll Take Romance
Film · 1937
Dangerously Yours
Film · 1937
One in a Million
Film · 1937
Fatal Lady
Film · 1936
Hollywood Boulevard
Film · 1936
The Night Is Young
Film · 1935
Shadow of Doubt
Film · 1935
Symphony of Living
Film · 1935
The Crusades
Film · 1935
Here's to Romance
Film · 1935
Diamond Jim
Film · 1935
Page Miss Glory
Film · 1935
The Black Cat
Film · 1934
Fashions of 1934
Film · 1934
Love Time
Film · 1934
Mills of the Gods
Film · 1934
Beloved
Film · 1934
Elmer and Elsie
Film · 1934
Shanghai Madness
Film · 1933
Topaze
Film · 1933
Gigolettes of Paris
Film · 1933
Torch Singer
Film · 1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Film · 1933
Adorable
Film · 1933
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Film · 1932
Lady with a Past
Film · 1932
The Night Club Lady
Film · 1932
State's Attorney
Film · 1932
Men Are Such Fools
Film · 1932
As You Desire Me
Film · 1932
Careless Lady
Film · 1932
Shopworn
Film · 1932
The Giddy Age
Film · 1932
Red-Headed Woman
Film · 1932
Freaks
Film · 1932
The Doomed Battalion
Film · 1932
Heartbreak
Film · 1931
Just a Gigolo
Film · 1931
This Modern Age
Film · 1931
The Common Law
Film · 1931
The Boudoir Diplomat
Film · 1931
Strangers May Kiss
Film · 1931
Monte Carlo
Film · 1930
Sea Legs
Film · 1930
Morocco
Film · 1930
One Romantic Night
Film · 1930
Madam Satan
Film · 1930
Oh, for a Man!
Film · 1930
Our Blushing Brides
Film · 1930
Such Men Are Dangerous
Film · 1930
Fashion News
Film · 1930
Captain Lash
Film · 1929
Why Is a Plumber?
Film · 1929
Jazz Heaven
Film · 1929
Saturday's Children
Film · 1929
Lady of the Pavements
Film · 1929
The Exalted Flapper
Film · 1929
The Legion of the Condemned
Film · 1928
The Wedding March
Film · 1928
Show People
Film · 1928
The Magnificent Flirt
Film · 1928
Plastered in Paris
Film · 1928
Alex The Great
Film · 1928
Stocks and Blondes
Film · 1928
Slipping Wives
Film · 1927
The Devil Dancer
Film · 1927
The Chinese Parrot
Film · 1927
Mockery
Film · 1927
Camille
Film · 1927
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Film · 1927
South Sea Love
Film · 1927
Honeymoon Hate
Film · 1927
Old Loves and New
Film · 1926
The Blonde Saint
Film · 1926
Watch Your Wife
Film · 1926
The Eagle
Film · 1925
The Merry Widow
Film · 1925
Merry-Go-Round
Film · 1923