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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 28, 1887
Died
January 18, 1967
Place of Birth
Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
Also Known As
- Albert De Conti Cadassamare
Albert Conti
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.1
Maitre d'Hotel
Everything Happens at Night
1939
6.4
Travel Agency Manager
City in Darkness
1939
5.2
M. Fevrier
Suez
1938
6.5
Count
Gateway
1938
6.8
Modiste Benoit
Always Goodbye
1938
5.0
Lepino
I'll Take Romance
1937
3.5
Monet
Dangerously Yours
1937
7.0
Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
Café Metropole
1937
6.8
Hotel Manager
One in a Million
1937
2.7
Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Credits
Everything Happens at Night
as Maitre d'Hotel
1939
4.1
City in Darkness
as Travel Agency Manager
1939
6.4
Suez
as M. Fevrier
1938
5.2
Gateway
as Count
1938
6.5
Always Goodbye
as Modiste Benoit
1938
6.8
I'll Take Romance
as Lepino
1937
5.0
Dangerously Yours
as Monet
1937
3.5
Café Metropole
as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)
1937
7.0
One in a Million
as Hotel Manager
1937
6.8
Hollywood Boulevard
as Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager
1936
2.7
Fatal Lady
as Headwaiter (uncredited)
1936
0.0
Here's to Romance
as LeFevre
1935
0.0
Page Miss Glory
as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)
1935
6.3
Diamond Jim
as Jeweler
1935
6.0
The Crusades
as Leopold, Duke of Austria
1935
6.2
Shadow of Doubt
as Louie - Head Waiter
1935
6.2
Symphony of Living
as Mancini
1935
5.7
The Night Is Young
as Mueller (uncredited)
1935
5.7
Mills of the Gods
as Count Filippo Di Fraschiani
1934
0.0
Love Time
as Nicholas
1934
0.0
The Black Cat
as The Lieutenant
1934
6.7
Fashions of 1934
as Savarin (uncredited)
1934
6.4
Beloved
as Baron Franz von Hausmann
1934
0.0
Gigolettes of Paris
1933
5.0
Torch Singer
as Carlotti
1933
5.2
Shanghai Madness
as Rigaud
1933
0.0
Topaze
as Henri de Fairville
1933
5.9
The Secret of Madame Blanche
as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
1933
3.4
Men Are Such Fools
as Spinelli
1932
0.0
🎬
The Giddy Age
as Mabel's 1st Accomplice
1932
0.0
The Night Club Lady
as Vincent Rowland
1932
6.4
Red-Headed Woman
as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)
1932
6.5
As You Desire Me
as Captain
1932
6.3
State's Attorney
as Mario
1932
6.7
The Doomed Battalion
as Captain Kessler
1932
0.0
Careless Lady
as French Hotel Desk Clerk
1932
5.2
Shopworn
as Andre
1932
6.5
Lady with a Past
as Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier
1932
5.8
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Frenchman on Liner
1932
5.2
Freaks
as Landowner (uncredited)
1932
7.8
Heartbreak
as Liaison Officer
1931
0.0
This Modern Age
as André de Graignon
1931
5.8
The Common Law
as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)
1931
5.3
Just a Gigolo
as French Husband
1931
3.9
Strangers May Kiss
as De Bazan
1931
5.0
🎬
The Boudoir Diplomat
as Emile
1931
0.0
Sea Legs
as Captain
1930
3.0
Oh, for a Man!
as Peck
1930
5.7
Morocco
as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)
1930
6.3
Madam Satan
as Empire Officer
1930
5.6
Monte Carlo
as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.
1930
6.5
Our Blushing Brides
as Monsieur Pantoise
1930
5.4
One Romantic Night
as Count Lutzen
1930
5.3
Such Men Are Dangerous
as Paul Strohm
1930
4.8
Jazz Heaven
as Walter Klucke
1929
5.0
The Exalted Flapper
as King Alexander of Capra
1929
0.0
Why Is a Plumber?
1929
0.0
Saturday's Children
as Mengle
1929
0.0
Lady of the Pavements
as Baron Finot
1929
4.6
Captain Lash
as Alex Condax
1929
0.0
Show People
as Producer
1928
7.1
The Wedding March
as Imperial Guard
1928
7.0
🎬
Plastered in Paris
as Abou Ben Abed
1928
0.0
The Magnificent Flirt
as Count D'Estrange
1928
0.0
🎬
Alex The Great
as Ed
1928
0.0
The Legion of the Condemned
as Von Hohendorff
1928
0.0
South Sea Love
as Max Weber
1927
0.0
The Devil Dancer
as Arnold Guthrie
1927
5.0
The Chinese Parrot
as Martin Thorne
1927
0.0
Love Me and the World Is Mine
as Billie
1927
0.0
Camille
as Henri
1927
1.0
Mockery
as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
1927
6.7
Slipping Wives
as Hon. Winchester Squirtz
1927
4.9
The Blonde Saint
as Andreas
1926
0.0
The Merry Widow
as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)
1926
6.7
Old Loves and New
as Dr. Chalmers
1926
2.3
Watch Your Wife
as Alphonse Marsac
1926
0.0
The Eagle
as Kuschka
1925
6.3
Merry-Go-Round
as Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn
1923
6.0