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Francis Lederer
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Francis Lederer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1899-11-05,Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

7.5

Pandora's Box
1929-01-30

7.4

Midnight
1939-03-24

Susie Cleans Up

0

Susie Cleans Up
1930-11-22

Voice in the Wind

5.2

Voice in the Wind
1944-03-03

The Madonna's Secret

5.9

The Madonna's Secret
1946-02-16

Stolen Identity

4.6

Stolen Identity
1953-04-03

Million Dollar Weekend

5.5

Million Dollar Weekend
1948-10-29

The Diary of a Chambermaid

6.2

The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946-02-15

0

The Other Eye
1991-09-25

The Return of Dracula

5.5

The Return of Dracula
1958-05-21

The Gay Deception

6.5

The Gay Deception
1935-09-13

Vincent Price's Dracula

7.9

Vincent Price's Dracula
1986-09-29

Terror is a Man

4.2

Terror is a Man
1959-11-01

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

6

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

6

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944-02-11

Mother Hummingbird

4

Mother Hummingbird
1929-10-23

The Lone Wolf in Paris

6

The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938-05-25

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

5.5

Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950-02-21

A Woman of Distinction

6.2

A Woman of Distinction
1950-03-16

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

10

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

7

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
1929-04-15

The Pursuit of Happiness

5.8

The Pursuit of Happiness
1934-09-27

One Rainy Afternoon

4.6

One Rainy Afternoon
1936-05-13

My American Wife

0

My American Wife
1936-08-06

Romance in Manhattan

8.1

Romance in Manhattan
1935-01-11

The Man I Married

6.3

The Man I Married
1940-08-09

Man of Two Worlds

6

Man of Two Worlds
1934-01-13

5.2

Maracaibo
1958-05-21

6.4

Lisbon
1956-08-17

5

It's All Yours
1937-09-01

0

Meineid
1929-04-26

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

5

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
1937-08-13

0

Fundvogel
1930-05-19

5

Puddin' Head
1941-06-25

The Great Longing

6

The Great Longing
1930-08-24

The Road to Dishonour

0

The Road to Dishonour
1930-02-26

Her Majesty Love

0

Her Majesty Love
1933-02-06

The Ambassador's Daughter

4.3

The Ambassador's Daughter
1956-07-26

4.8

Surrender
1950-09-15

Adventures in Vienna

8.3

Adventures in Vienna
1952-08-20

The emperor's detective

0

The emperor's detective
1930-04-19

Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen

0

Die seltsame Nacht der Helga Wangen
1928-10-15

The Fate of Renate Langen

0

The Fate of Renate Langen
1931-02-11

Starlit Days at the Lido

5

Starlit Days at the Lido
1935-09-28

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

0

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
1976-10-07

A Century of Science Fiction

6.9

A Century of Science Fiction
1996-01-01

0

Refuge
1928-08-03

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

7.5

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009-07-02

6.5

Atlantic
1929-10-28

Kraft Suspense Theatre

5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963-10-10

6.1

That Girl
1966-09-08

4.4

Studio One
1948-11-07

7.8

Night Gallery
1970-12-16

Mission: Impossible

7.599

Mission: Impossible
1966-09-17

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

6.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

Matinee Theater

3.3

Matinee Theater
1955-10-31

The Philco Television Playhouse

5.6

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948-10-03

5.7

Ben Casey
1961-10-02

Robert Montgomery Presents

4.333

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30

Behind Closed Doors

0

Behind Closed Doors
1958-10-02

5

Blue Light
1966-01-12

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

9

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975-11-11