Albert Conti
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.51 |
| Birthday | 1887-01-28 |
| Place of Birth | Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy] |
| Also Known As | Albert De Conti Cadassamare, |
1934
The Black Cat
6.668/259
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1927
Slipping Wives
5.067/15
Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
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Slipping Wives
1930
Monte Carlo
6.294/17
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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Monte Carlo
1938
Always Goodbye
6.8/6
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Always Goodbye
1932
Lady with a Past
5.8/8
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Lady with a Past
1933
Topaze
6.2/17
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1931
Just a Gigolo
4.8/3
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1927
The Devil Dancer
0/0
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1931
This Modern Age
6/10
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1935
Shadow of Doubt
6.2/4
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Shadow of Doubt
1932
The Night Club Lady
6.2/2
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1930
Sea Legs
3/1
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Sea Legs
1932
State's Attorney
6.7/6
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1932
Men Are Such Fools
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1935
Symphony of Living
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1929
Jazz Heaven
5/4
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1932
As You Desire Me
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1931
The Boudoir Diplomat
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The Boudoir Diplomat
1932
Careless Lady
5.3/3
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Careless Lady
1936
Fatal Lady
0/0
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Fatal Lady
1929
Saturday's Children
0/0
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1939
City in Darkness
6.367/15
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City in Darkness
1937
I'll Take Romance
5/2
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1927
The Chinese Parrot
0/0
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The Chinese Parrot
1935
The Crusades
6.2/13
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The Crusades
1939
Everything Happens at Night
4.1/4
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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1925
The Eagle
6.298/47
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1929
Lady of the Pavements
4.6/7
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Lady of the Pavements
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
2.5/2
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Hollywood Boulevard
1937
Dangerously Yours
6/1
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Dangerously Yours
1932
Shopworn
6.7/10
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1930
Morocco
6.357/133
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1930
One Romantic Night
5.333/3
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1928
Show People
7.076/46
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1927
Mockery
6.5/8
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Mockery
1935
Here's to Romance
0/0
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1938
Gateway
6.5/3
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1935
Diamond Jim
6/1
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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1927
Camille
1/1
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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1931
The Common Law
5.5/11
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1930
Oh, for a Man!
5.5/2
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1930
Madam Satan
5.8/20
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1923
Merry-Go-Round
6.036/14
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Merry-Go-Round
1926
The Merry Widow
6.727/33
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The Merry Widow
1932
The Giddy Age
0/0
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
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The Giddy Age
1938
Suez
5.4/13
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1934
Mills of the Gods
0/0
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Mills of the Gods
1931
Strangers May Kiss
5.1/8
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Strangers May Kiss
1930
Our Blushing Brides
5.9/16
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Our Blushing Brides
1937
One in a Million
7/3
American theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
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One in a Million
1932
Red-Headed Woman
6.5/43
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Red-Headed Woman
1928
The Magnificent Flirt
0/0
Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her...
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The Magnificent Flirt
1933
Torch Singer
5.2/8
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Torch Singer
1927
Love Me and the World is Mine
0/0
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Love Me and the World is Mine
1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
4/4
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
1935
Page Miss Glory
6.3/6
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Page Miss Glory
1926
Old Loves and New
3/2
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Old Loves and New
1932
Freaks
7.808/1143
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for...
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1926
The Blonde Saint
0/0
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The Blonde Saint
1932
The Doomed Battalion
0/0
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
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The Doomed Battalion
1930
Such Men Are Dangerous
4.333/3
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
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Such Men Are Dangerous
1934
Beloved
0/0
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Beloved
1928
The Legion of the Condemned
0/0
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The Legion of the Condemned
1933
Shanghai Madness
0/0
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Shanghai Madness
1929
Captain Lash
0/0
Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora...
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Captain Lash
1935
The Night Is Young
5/2
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The Night Is Young
1929
Why Is a Plumber?
0/0
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Why Is a Plumber?
1933
Gigolettes of Paris
5/1
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Gigolettes of Paris
1934
Fashions of 1934
6.3/18
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide disco...
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Fashions of 1934
1932
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
4.6/8
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1934
Love Time
0/0
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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Love Time
1931
Heartbreak
0/0
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Heartbreak
1928
The Wedding March
7/33
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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The Wedding March
1937
Café Metropole
6.9/10
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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