Albert Conti
Acting
Born 1887-01-28
Died 1967-01-18
Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
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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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57 credits
Freaks
Morocco
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Black Cat
Shopworn
Red-Headed Woman
The Crusades
State's Attorney
Careless Lady
Madam Satan
Torch Singer
The Merry Widow
Our Blushing Brides
Mills of the Gods
The Eagle
Slipping Wives
City in Darkness
Café Metropole
Everything Happens at Night
Gateway
Monte Carlo
Alex The Great
Diamond Jim
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Lady with a Past
Suez
The Night Club Lady
Fashions of 1934
The Night Is Young
I'll Take Romance
As You Desire Me
The Common Law
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Merry-Go-Round
The Blonde Saint
Men Are Such Fools
Hollywood Boulevard
Stocks and Blondes
The Wedding March
Always Goodbye
This Modern Age
Dangerously Yours
Topaze
Page Miss Glory
Such Men Are Dangerous
Strangers May Kiss
Watch Your Wife
Beloved
The Chinese Parrot
South Sea Love
Fatal Lady
The Magnificent Flirt
Heartbreak
Oh, for a Man!
The Exalted Flapper
Camille
Shanghai Madness
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