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Francis Lederer

Francis Lederer
  • Name: Francis Lederer
  • Birthday: 1899-11-05
  • Also known as: Franz Lederer,František Lederer
  • Place of birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
  • Popularity: 2.715
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... Read More

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Title Release date
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year   as  Self (archive footage) 2009-07-02
A Century of Science Fiction   as  Self 1996-01-01
The Other Eye   as  Self 1991-09-25
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook   as  Count Dracula (archive footage) 1991-01-01
Vincent Price's Dracula   as  Count Dracula - (archive footage) 1986-09-29
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture   as  Self - Interviewee 1976-10-07
Terror is a Man   as  Dr. Charles Girard 1959-11-01
The Return of Dracula   as  Count Dracula 1958-05-21
Maracaibo   as  Miguel Orlando 1958-05-21
Lisbon   as  Seraphim 1956-08-17
The Ambassador's Daughter   as  Prince Nicholas Obelski 1956-07-26
Stolen Identity   as  Claude Manelli 1953-04-03
Adventures in Vienna   as  Claude Manelli 1952-08-20
Surrender   as  Henry Vaan 1950-09-15
A Woman of Distinction   as  Paul Simone 1950-03-16
Captain Carey, U.S.A.   as  Baron Rocco de Greffi 1950-02-21
Million Dollar Weekend   as  Alan Marker 1948-10-29
The Madonna's Secret   as  James Harlan Corbin 1946-02-16
The Diary of a Chambermaid   as  Joseph 1946-02-15
Voice in the Wind   as  Jan Volny / El Hombre 1944-03-03
The Bridge of San Luis Rey   as  Esteban / Manuel 1944-02-11
Puddin' Head   as  Prince Karl 1941-06-25
The Man I Married   as  Eric Hoffman 1940-08-09
Confessions of a Nazi Spy   as  Kurt Schneider 1939-05-06
Midnight   as  Jacques Picot 1939-03-24
The Lone Wolf in Paris   as  Michael Lanyard 1938-05-25
It's All Yours   as  Jimmy Barnes 1937-09-01
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12   as  Self (uncredited) 1937-08-13
My American Wife   as  Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach 1936-08-06
One Rainy Afternoon   as  Philippe Martin 1936-05-13
Starlit Days at the Lido   as  Self 1935-09-28
The Gay Deception   as  Sandro 1935-09-13
Romance in Manhattan   as  Karel Novak 1935-01-11
The Pursuit of Happiness   as  Max Christmann 1934-09-27
Man of Two Worlds   as  Aigo 1934-01-13
Her Majesty Love   as  Fred von Wellingen 1933-02-06
The Fate of Renate Langen   as  Gerd 1931-02-11
Susie Cleans Up   as  Robert 1930-11-22
The Great Longing   as  Himself 1930-08-24
Fundvogel   as  Jan Bergwall 1930-05-19
The emperor's detective   as  Dr. Wolfgang Crusius 1930-04-19
The Road to Dishonour   as  Boris Borrisoff 1930-02-26
Atlantic   as  Peter 1929-10-28
Mother Hummingbird   as  Georges de Chambry 1929-10-23
Meineid   as  Karl Fenn 1929-04-26
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna   as  Lt. Michael Rostof 1929-04-15
Pandora's Box   as  Alwa Schön 1929-01-30
Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen   as  Werner Hilsoe 1928-10-15
Refuge   as  Martin Falkhagen 1928-08-03