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Francis Lederer‌

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calendar1899-11-05

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Francis Lederer

Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Francis Lederer

Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1899-11-05

Popularity

star1.8

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box‌
star7.5
calendar 1929

Midnight

Midnight‌
star7.4
calendar 1939

Susie Cleans Up

Susie Cleans Up‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

Voice in the Wind

Voice in the Wind‌
star5.2
calendar 1944

The Madonna's Secret

The Madonna's Secret‌
star5.9
calendar 1946

Stolen Identity

Stolen Identity‌
star4.6
calendar 1953

Million Dollar Weekend

Million Dollar Weekend‌
star5.5
calendar 1948

The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Diary of a Chambermaid‌
star6.2
calendar 1946

The Other Eye

The Other Eye‌
star0.0
calendar 1991

The Return of Dracula

The Return of Dracula‌
star5.6
calendar 1958

The Gay Deception

The Gay Deception‌
star6.6
calendar 1935

Vincent Price's Dracula

Vincent Price's Dracula‌
star7.9
calendar 1986

Terror is a Man

Terror is a Man‌
star4.2
calendar 1959

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey‌
star6.0
calendar 1944

Mother Hummingbird

Mother Hummingbird‌
star4.0
calendar 1929

The Lone Wolf in Paris

The Lone Wolf in Paris‌
star6.0
calendar 1938

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

A Woman of Distinction

A Woman of Distinction‌
star6.2
calendar 1950

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook‌
star10.0
calendar 1991

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna‌
star7.0
calendar 1929

The Pursuit of Happiness

The Pursuit of Happiness‌
star5.8
calendar 1934

One Rainy Afternoon

One Rainy Afternoon‌
star4.6
calendar 1936

My American Wife

My American Wife‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan‌
star8.1
calendar 1935

The Man I Married

The Man I Married‌
star6.3
calendar 1940

Man of Two Worlds

Man of Two Worlds‌
star6.0
calendar 1934

Maracaibo

Maracaibo‌
star5.2
calendar 1958

Lisbon

Lisbon‌
star6.4
calendar 1956

It's All Yours

It's All Yours‌
star5.0
calendar 1937

Meineid

Meineid‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12‌
star5.0
calendar 1937

Fundvogel

Fundvogel‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

Puddin' Head

Puddin' Head‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

The Great Longing

The Great Longing‌
star6.0
calendar 1930

The Road to Dishonour

The Road to Dishonour‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

Her Majesty Love

Her Majesty Love‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

The Ambassador's Daughter

The Ambassador's Daughter‌
star4.3
calendar 1956

Surrender

Surrender‌
star4.8
calendar 1950

Adventures in Vienna

Adventures in Vienna‌
star8.2
calendar 1952

The emperor's detective

The emperor's detective‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen

Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

The Fate of Renate Langen

The Fate of Renate Langen‌
star0.0
calendar 1931

Starlit Days at the Lido

Starlit Days at the Lido‌
star5.0
calendar 1935

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction‌
star6.9
calendar 1996

Refuge

Refuge‌
star0.0
calendar 1928

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year‌
star7.5
calendar 2009

Atlantic

Atlantic‌
star6.5
calendar 1929

Tv Credits

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre‌
star5.3
calendar 1963

That Girl

That Girl‌
star6.1
calendar 1966

Studio One

Studio One‌
star4.4
calendar 1948

Night Gallery

Night Gallery‌
star7.8
calendar 1970

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible‌
star7.6
calendar 1966

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Matinee Theater

Matinee Theater‌
star3.3
calendar 1955

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse‌
star5.6
calendar 1948

Ben Casey

Ben Casey‌
star5.7
calendar 1961

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents‌
star4.3
calendar 1950

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors‌
star0.0
calendar 1958

Blue Light

Blue Light‌
star5.0
calendar 1966

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany‌
star9.0
calendar 1975