Albert Conti
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.
Freaks
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The Black Cat
as The LieutenantAfter a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr....
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Morocco
as Col. Quinnovieres (uncredited)The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly...
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Suez
as M. FevrierFerdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez,...
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Madam Satan
as Empire OfficerA socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a...
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Fashions of 1934
as Savarin (uncredited)When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner...
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Show People
as ProducerHollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great...
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Red-Headed Woman
as Frenchman in Paris (uncredited)Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an...
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The Eagle
as KuschkaVladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II....
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Dangerously Yours
as MonetA detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New...
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Merry-Go-Round
as Rudi / Baron von LeightsinnA nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer,...
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The Crusades
as Leopold, Duke of AustriaKing Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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The Merry Widow
as Danilo's Adjutant (uncredited)When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of...
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Mockery
as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei...
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The Wedding March
as Imperial GuardA young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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City in Darkness
as Travel Agency ManagerChan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating...
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Diamond Jim
as JewelerA loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Love Time
as NicholasRomaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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This Modern Age
as André de GraignonA Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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Camille
as HenriBased on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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As You Desire Me
as CaptainBar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with...
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Jazz Heaven
as Walter KluckeA young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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Slipping Wives
as Hon. Winchester SquirtzNeglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to...
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Monte Carlo
as Prince Otto's Companion / M.C.A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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The Common Law
as Strangeways Party Guest (uncredited)When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent...
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Gateway
as CountIrish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she...
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Here's to Romance
as LeFevreKathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to...
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Lady with a Past
as Rene, the Viscomte de la ThernardierA wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours...
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Torch Singer
as CarlottiWhen she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption...
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Strangers May Kiss
as De BazanAfter years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy,...
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
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Shadow of Doubt
as Louie - Head WaiterWhen a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the...
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State's Attorney
as MarioCorrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the...
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Hollywood Boulevard
as Bill Sanford - Trocadero ManagerWith a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...
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One in a Million
as Hotel ManagerAmerican theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and...
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Café Metropole
as Gendarme at Jail (uncredited)An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Topaze
as Henri de FairvilleAn honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom,...
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Page Miss Glory
as Riding Habit Tailor (uncredited)A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant...
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Such Men Are Dangerous
as Paul StrohmA wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that...
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Mills of the Gods
as Count Filippo Di FraschianiFay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by...
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Just a Gigolo
as French HusbandA playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a...
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Shopworn
as AndreA waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
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Beloved
as Baron Franz von HausmannStory about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Our Blushing Brides
as Monsieur PantoiseThree department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street...
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Fatal Lady
as Headwaiter (uncredited)On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the...
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I'll Take Romance
as LepinoTheater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry...
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Gigolettes of Paris
as uncreditedSilent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed...
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
as French Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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Oh, for a Man!
as PeckDisenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up...
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Shanghai Madness
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Symphony of Living
as ManciniJust before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand...
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The Night Is Young
as Mueller (uncredited)Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the...
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The Chinese Parrot
as Martin ThorneThe plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all...
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Love Me and the World is Mine
as BillieIn Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of...
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Always Goodbye
as Modiste BenoitFollowing the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor...
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Everything Happens at Night
as Maitre d'HotelTwo reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Old Loves and New
as Dr. ChalmersGervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde...
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The Devil Dancer
as Arnold GuthrieAn English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native...
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Careless Lady
as French Hotel Desk ClerkInnocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the...
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The Night Club Lady
as Vincent RowlandA police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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Sea Legs
as CaptainSearchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the...
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The Blonde Saint
as AndreasPlayboy novelist Sebastian Maure falls for Ghiirlaine Bellamy, a product of a wealthy--and...
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Lady of the Pavements
as Baron FinotKarl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him....
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The Legion of the Condemned
as Von HohendorffFinding his sweetheart, Christine, in the arms of a German officer, Price joins the French Air...
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Men Are Such Fools
as SpinelliAn immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly...
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One Romantic Night
as Count LutzenA princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
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Captain Lash
as Alex CondaxLash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash...
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Saturday's Children
as MengleYouthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in...
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The Doomed Battalion
as Captain KesslerDuring World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the...
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The Magnificent Flirt
as Count D'EstrangeCount D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless...
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