Albert Ritter Conti v.Cedassamare

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Albert Ritter Conti v.Cedassamare (also Albert Conti)

[edit] Life

Born January 29, 1887, Trieste, and died January 18, 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA, was an actor, but first he specialized in law (high school and law college in Graz) and natural science, married with Patricia Cross, when start the World War I, he envolved was a officer, like your father Albert Ritter Conti v.Cedassamare and your mother Marie Bernhardine Anna countess Caboga, member of old Ragusan/Dubrovnik family,(see House of Caboga), in the Austrian army who came to America after the close of World War I. Like many impoverished postwar Europeans.

[edit] Emigrated to U.S.A

Conti emigrated to U.S.A after the end of World War I, he was obliged to take a series of manual labor jobs. While working in the California oil fields, Conti 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 Hapsburg empire expatriates, Conti was able to secure dignified character roles in several silent and sound films; his credits ranged from Joseph von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) to the early Laurel and Hardy knockabout Slipping Wives (1927). 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.