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Francis Lederer

Francis Lederer

Actor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Francis Lederer (November 6, 1899 – May 25, 2000) was a Czech-born film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States. His original name was František Lederer. Lederer's first American movies were Man of Two Worlds (1934), Romance in Manhattan (1934), with Ginger Rogers, The Gay Deception (1935), with Frances Dee, and One Rainy Afternoon (1936). He was cast as the lead with Katharine Hepburn in the 1935 film Break of Hearts, but the producers replaced him with Charles Boyer. It was Irving Thalberg's plan to make Lederer "the biggest star in Hollywood" but the death of Thalberg ended this possibility. Although he continued to play leads occasionally – notably when he was a playboy in Mitchell Leisen's Midnight with Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in 1939 – in the late 1930s Lederer began to expand his character parts, even playing villains. Edward G. Robinson praised Lederer's performance as a German American Bundist in Confessions of a Nazi Spy in 1939, and he earned plaudits for his portrayal of a fascist in The Man I Married (1940) with Joan Bennett. He also played Count Dracula for The Return of Dracula in 1958. Throughout his career, Lederer, who studied with Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City, continued to take stage acting seriously, and he performed often both in New York and elsewhere. He appeared in stage productions of Golden Boy (1937), Seventh Heaven (1939), No Time for Comedy (1939), in which he replaced Laurence Olivier, The Play's the Thing (1942), A Doll's House (1944), Arms and the Man (1950), The Sleeping Prince (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1958). Although he took a break from making films in 1941, in order to concentrate on his stage work, he returned to the silver screen in 1944, appearing in Voice in the Wind and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and in films such as Jean Renoir's The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and Million Dollar Weekend (1948). He took another break from Hollywood in 1950, after making Surrender (1950), and returned in 1956 with Lisbon and the light comedy The Ambassador's Daughter. His final film appearance was in Terror Is a Man in 1959. During the 1950s, he served as honorary mayor of Canoga Park. He would continue to make television appearances for the next 10 years in such shows as Sally, The Untouchables, Ben Casey, Blue Light, Mission: Impossible and That Girl. His final television appearance occurred in a 1971 episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery called "The Devil Is Not Mocked". In it, he reprised his role as Dracula from The Return of Dracula.

Born: November 5, 1899 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Died: May 25, 2000 (Age 100)

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Francis Lederer  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7.6
ActorAlwa Schön1929
Movie
7.9
ActorJacques Picot1939
Movie
6.4
ActorJoseph1946
Movie
5.6
ActorCount Dracula1958
Movie
5.1
ActorDr. Charles Girard1959
Movie
6.5
ActorKurt Schneider1939
Movie
6.2
ActorBaron Rocco de Greffi1950
Movie
6.4
ActorPaul Simone1950
Movie
6.6
ActorKarel Novak1935
Movie
6.8
ActorEric Hoffman1940
Movie
5.7
ActorSeraphim1956
Movie
5.7
ActorPrince Nicholas Obelski1956
Movie
6.6
ActorSandro1935
Movie
7
ActorLt. Michael Rostof1929
Movie
5.9
ActorAlan Marker1948
Movie
5.7
ActorPhilippe Martin1936
Movie
5.2
ActorJan Volny / El Hombre1944
Movie
5.3
ActorEsteban / Manuel1944
Movie
6.2
ActorClaude Manelli1953
Movie
6.2
ActorJames Harlan Corbin1946
Movie
5.6
ActorMiguel Orlando1958
Movie
5.9
ActorHenry Vaan1950
Movie
6.4
ActorAigo1934
Movie
7.3
ActorFred von Wellingen1933
Movie
7
ActorMax Christmann1934
Movie
6.3
ActorJimmy Barnes1937
Movie
6.3
ActorPrince Karl1941
Movie
7.1
ActorClaude Manelli1952
Movie
7
ActorHimself1930
Movie
6.5
ActorCount Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach1936
Movie
6.2
ActorMichael Lanyard1938
Movie
ActorGerd1931
Movie
ActorDr. Wolfgang Crusius1930
Movie
7
ActorGeorges de Chambry1929
Movie
ActorWerner Hilsoe1928
Movie
7.3
ActorMartin Falkhagen1928
Movie
7
ActorSelf1991
Movie
5.4
ActorSelf1996
Movie
ActorKarl Fenn1929
Movie
7.9
ActorBoris Borrisoff1930
Movie
6.7
ActorCount Dracula - (archive footage)1986
Movie
7.2
ActorCount Dracula (archive footage)1991
Movie
ActorJan Bergwall1930
Movie
6.9
ActorPeter1929
TV Show
7.5
ActorDr. Jeremias Lipp
1 Episode
1963-1965
TV Show
7.3
Actor1 Episode1951-1959
TV Show
7.3
ActorCharles
1 Episode
1950-1959
TV Show
8.1
ActorSelf
5 Episodes
1975-1975
TV Show
7.3
ActorRene d'Arcy
1 Episode
1948-1958
TV Show
8
Actor1 Episode1969-1973
TV Show
6.9
Actor2 Episodes1961-1966
TV Show
7.1
ActorVittorio Barrini
1 Episode
1966-1971
TV Show
7.7
ActorSenko Brobin
1 Episode
1966-1973
TV Show
7.4
Actor1 Episode1948-1956
TV Show
7.6
ActorBaron
1 Episode
1950-1957
TV Show
7.8
ActorBrauer
1 Episode
1958-1959
TV Show
7.4
Actor1 Episode1966-1966
TV Show
6.6
Actor1 Episode1955-1958
Short Film
5.7
ActorSelf1935
Short Film
1.2
ActorSelf (uncredited)1937
Movie
8.5
ActorSelf - Interviewee1976
Movie
7.6
ActorSelf (archive footage)2009
TV Show
7.5
DirectingDirector
1 Episode
1958-1964
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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