Innate around Paisley, Scotland, Conti is mostly known for his stage work. He won a Tony Award in 1979 for Whose Life is it Anyway?. However he is likewise an accomplished film & television actor. Besides ingesting a leading role in the 1978 TV version of Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, he played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-heading series of car advert.

He hwhen appeared within such films as 'Flame' likewise starring rock class action Slade (1974), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben (nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor), American Dreamer, Shirley Valentine and Saving Grace.

He is married to Scottish actress, Kara Wilson, and his girl Nina is a ventriloquist.