Francis Lederer
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-11-05 (101 years old)
Deathday
2000-05-25
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. It was Irving Thalberg's plan to make Lederer "the biggest star in Hollywood" but the deat...
Acting
1929
as Alwa Schön
1939
as Jacques Picot
1930
as Robert
1944
as Jan Volny / El Hombre
1946
as James Harlan Corbin
1953
as Claude Manelli
1948
as Alan Marker
1946
as Joseph
1991
as Self
1958
as Count Dracula
1935
as Sandro
1959
as Dr. Charles Girard
1939
as Kurt Schneider
1944
as Esteban / Manuel
1929
as Georges de Chambry
1938
as Michael Lanyard
1950
as Baron Rocco de Greffi
1950
as Paul Simone
1991
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
1929
as Lt. Michael Rostof
1934
as Max Christmann
1936
as Philippe Martin
1936
as Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach
1935
as Karel Novak
1940
as Eric Hoffman
1934
as Aigo
1958
as Miguel Orlando
1956
as Seraphim
1937
as Jimmy Barnes
1929
as Karl Fenn
1937
as Self (uncredited)
1930
as Jan Bergwall
1941
as Prince Karl
1930
as Himself
1930
as Boris Borrisoff
1933
as Fred von Wellingen
1956
as Prince Nicholas Obelski
1950
as Henry Vaan
1952
as Claude Manelli
1930
as Dr. Wolfgang Crusius
1928
as Werner Hilsoe
1931
as Gerd
1935
as Self
1976
as Self - Interviewee
1996
as Self
1928
as Martin Falkhagen
2009
as Self (archive footage)
1929
as Peter
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