
Albert Conti
Biography
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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.
Acting (73 movies)

The Black Cat
1934

The Legion of the Condemned
1928

Shanghai Madness
1933

Fashions of 1934
1934

Captain Lash
1929

The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932

Slipping Wives
1927

Love Time
1934

The Night Is Young
1935

Lady with a Past
1932

Monte Carlo
1930

Why Is a Plumber?
1929

Topaze
1933

Just a Gigolo
1931

The Devil Dancer
1927

Gigolettes of Paris
1933

The Wedding March
1928

This Modern Age
1931

Shadow of Doubt
1935

The Night Club Lady
1932

Always Goodbye
1938

Sea Legs
1930

Café Metropole
1937

The Common Law
1931

State's Attorney
1932

Symphony of Living
1935

Men Are Such Fools
1932

As You Desire Me
1932

Jazz Heaven
1929

Careless Lady
1932

Saturday's Children
1929

City in Darkness
1939

Fatal Lady
1936

I'll Take Romance
1937

The Chinese Parrot
1927

The Crusades
1935

Everything Happens at Night
1939

The Eagle
1925

Lady of the Pavements
1929

Hollywood Boulevard
1936

Dangerously Yours
1937

Shopworn
1932

Morocco
1930

One Romantic Night
1930

Show People
1928

Mockery
1927

Here's to Romance
1935

Gateway
1938

Diamond Jim
1935

Camille
1927

Madam Satan
1930

Oh, for a Man!
1930

Merry-Go-Round
1923

The Merry Widow
1926

Suez
1938

Mills of the Gods
1934

Strangers May Kiss
1931

Our Blushing Brides
1930

One in a Million
1937

Red-Headed Woman
1932

The Magnificent Flirt
1928

Torch Singer
1933

Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927

The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933

Page Miss Glory
1935

Old Loves and New
1926

Freaks
1932

The Blonde Saint
1926

The Doomed Battalion
1932

Such Men Are Dangerous
1930

Beloved
1934

South Sea Love
1927

The Exalted Flapper
1929
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