Francis Lederer

Personal Info

Birthday

November 5, 1899

Day of Death

2000-05-25

(100 years old)

Place of Birth

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

Also Known As

Franz Lederer

František Lederer

Francis Lederer

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.

Known For

Robert Montgomery Presents

Studio One

Mission: Impossible

Kraft Suspense Theatre

That Girl

Lux Video Theatre

Behind Closed Doors

Pandora's Box

Filmography

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