Albert Conti

Known for ActingBorn 1887-01-28Died 1967-01-18Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Fatal Lady

Love Time

Elmer and Elsie

Heartbreak

The Legion of the Condemned

Plastered in Paris

The Chinese Parrot

Love Me and the World Is Mine

The Blonde Saint

Beloved

The Doomed Battalion

The Boudoir Diplomat

Alex The Great

Mills of the Gods

Shanghai Madness

The Giddy Age

Captain Lash

Why Is a Plumber?

Saturday's Children

The Exalted Flapper

Stocks and Blondes

South Sea Love

Honeymoon Hate

Freaks

Gateway

Café Metropole

Always Goodbye

Show People

The Night Club Lady

The Wedding March

One in a Million

Here's to Romance

Men Are Such Fools

The Magnificent Flirt

Watch Your Wife

State's Attorney

Mockery

Shopworn

Page Miss Glory

The Black Cat

The Merry Widow

Shadow of Doubt

Red-Headed Woman

City in Darkness

Fashions of 1934

Symphony of Living

Diamond Jim

Monte Carlo