1887-01-28 ( 138 years old ) in Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
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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.
Movies
Everything Happens at Night
1939-12-22
City in Darkness
1939-11-15
Suez
1938-10-28
Gateway
1938-08-05
Always Goodbye
1938-06-24
I'll Take Romance
1937-11-17
Dangerously Yours
1937-09-21
Café Metropole
1937-04-28
One in a Million
1937-01-01
Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
Fatal Lady
1936-05-15
Here's to Romance
1935-10-04
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
Diamond Jim
1935-09-01
The Crusades
1935-08-21
Shadow of Doubt
1935-02-15
Symphony of Living
1935-01-19
The Night Is Young
1935-01-11
Mills of the Gods
1934-12-15
Love Time
1934-11-03
The Black Cat
1934-05-07
Fashions of 1934
1934-02-14
Beloved
1934-01-22
Gigolettes of Paris
1933-10-05
Torch Singer
1933-09-08
Shanghai Madness
1933-08-03
Topaze
1933-02-24
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933-02-03
Men Are Such Fools
1932-11-18
The Giddy Age
1932-09-25
The Night Club Lady
1932-08-27
Red-Headed Woman
1932-06-25
As You Desire Me
1932-05-28
State's Attorney
1932-05-20
The Doomed Battalion
1932-04-30
Careless Lady
1932-04-02
Shopworn
1932-03-25
Lady with a Past
1932-02-19
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932-02-03
Freaks
1932-01-01
Heartbreak
1931-11-08
This Modern Age
1931-08-29
The Common Law
1931-07-17
Just a Gigolo
1931-06-06
Strangers May Kiss
1931-04-04
The Boudoir Diplomat
1931-02-17
Sea Legs
1930-12-01
Oh, for a Man!
1930-11-28
Morocco
1930-11-14
Madam Satan
1930-09-20
Monte Carlo
1930-08-27
Our Blushing Brides
1930-07-19
One Romantic Night
1930-04-30
Such Men Are Dangerous
1930-03-09
Jazz Heaven
1929-11-03
The Exalted Flapper
1929-06-09
Why Is a Plumber?
1929-03-30
Saturday's Children
1929-03-10
Lady of the Pavements
1929-01-22
Captain Lash
1929-01-06
Show People
1928-11-20
The Wedding March
1928-10-06
The Magnificent Flirt
1928-06-02
The Legion of the Condemned
1928-03-10
South Sea Love
1927-12-10
The Devil Dancer
1927-11-03
The Chinese Parrot
1927-10-23
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927-09-26
Camille
1927-09-04
Mockery
1927-08-13
Slipping Wives
1927-04-03
The Blonde Saint
1926-11-20
The Merry Widow
1926-09-27
Old Loves and New
1926-04-11
The Eagle
1925-11-08
Merry-Go-Round
1923-07-01
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