[3] Conte was host for Screen Test[3]: 298  and master of ceremonies for the Maxwell House program that featured Fanny Brice and Frank Morgan.

His own weekly solo skit on Star Time was as a heavily accented Italian-American chef preparing bumbled recipes as he recited them, along with frequent tangential references to "the homemade-a wine" fermenting in his bathtub visible from the kitchen.

[7]: 825 Conte made five guest appearances on Perry Mason: In three different episodes, he played the role of the murder victim.

From October 31, 1955, to July 27, 1959, Conte was the host of Matinee Theater, a one-hour color anthology program on the fledgling NBC Television Network.

The program aired at 12 noon New York Time live to the entire network from its new color studios in Burbank, California.

In 1968, he and his long-term third wife, Sirpuhe Philibosian Conte, launched KMIR-TV,[6] an NBC-affiliated UHF station in the Palm Springs–Rancho Mirage market.

He was a founding sponsor of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and one of the founders of the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California.