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]

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

Pandora's Box

as Alwa Schön

1939

Midnight

as Jacques Picot

1930

1944

Voice in the Wind

as Jan Volny / El Hombre

1946

The Madonna's Secret

as James Harlan Corbin

1953

Stolen Identity

as Claude Manelli

1948

1991

1958

The Return of Dracula

as Count Dracula

1935

1959

Terror Is a Man

as Dr. Charles Girard

1939

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

as Kurt Schneider

1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Esteban / Manuel

1929

Mother Hummingbird

as Georges de Chambry

1938

The Lone Wolf in Paris

as Michael Lanyard

1950

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

as Baron Rocco de Greffi

1950

1991

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Count Dracula (archive footage)

1929

1934

The Pursuit of Happiness

as Max Christmann

1936

One Rainy Afternoon

as Philippe Martin

1936

My American Wife

as Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach

1935

Romance in Manhattan

as Karel Novak

1940

The Man I Married

as Eric Hoffman

1958

Maracaibo

as Miguel Orlando

1956

Lisbon

as Seraphim

1937

It's All Yours

as Jimmy Barnes

1929

Meineid

as Karl Fenn

1937

1930

Fundvogel

as Jan Bergwall

1941

Puddin' Head

as Prince Karl

1930

1930

The Road to Dishonour

as Boris Borrisoff

1933

Her Majesty Love

as Fred von Wellingen

1956

The Ambassador's Daughter

as Prince Nicholas Obelski

1950

Surrender

as Henry Vaan

1952

Adventures in Vienna

as Claude Manelli

1930

The emperor's detective

as Dr. Wolfgang Crusius

1928

Refuge

as Martin Falkhagen

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

1929

Atlantic

as Peter

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