
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.

as Maitre d'Hotel

as Travel Agency Manager

as M. Fevrier

as Count

as Modiste Benoit

as Lepino

as Monet

as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)

as Hotel Manager

as Bill Sanford - Trocadero Manager

as Headwaiter (uncredited)

as LeFevre

as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)

as Jeweler

as Leopold, Duke of Austria

as Louie - Head Waiter

as Mancini

as Mueller (uncredited)

as Count Filippo Di Fraschiani

as Nicholas

as Barlotti

as The Lieutenant

as Savarin (uncredited)

as Baron Franz von Hausmann

as Carlotti

as Rigaud

as The Captain (uncredited)

as Henri de Fairville

as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)

as Spinelli

as Mabel's 1st Accomplice

as Vincent Rowland

as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)

as Captain

as Mario

as Captain Kessler

as French Hotel Desk Clerk

as Andre

as Rene, the Viscomte de la Thernardier

as Frenchman on Liner

as Landowner (uncredited)

as Liaison Officer

as André de Graignon

as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)

as French Husband

as De Bazan

as Emile

as Captain

as Peck

as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)

as Empire Officer

as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.

as Monsieur Pantoise

as Count Lutzen

as Paul Strohm

as Walter Klucke

as King Alexander of Capra

as Mengle

as Baron Finot

as Alex Condax

as Producer

as Imperial Guard

as Abou Ben Abed

as Powers

as Count D'Estrange

as Ed

as Von Hohendorff

as Max Weber

as Arnold Guthrie

as Martin Thorne

as Billie

as Henri

as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)

as Hon. Winchester Squirtz

as Andreas

as Dr. Chalmers

as Alphonse Marsac

as Kuschka

as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)

as Rudi / Baron von Leightsinn