Francis Lederer
Biography
Francis Lederer was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor whose career began on European stages before he settled in Hollywood. Born in a working-class suburb of Prague, he trained at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Dramatic Art, and began his stage career as an apprentice at the New German Theater. He toured Moravia and central Europe as a matinee idol and played Romeo in a Max Reinhardt production of Romeo and Juliet, then appeared in G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box and Atlantic (1929). In Hollywood he played a playboy in Midnight (1939), and Edward G. Robinson praised his work in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939). Later films included The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), Million Dollar Weekend (1948) and Terror Is a Man (1959), and he played Dracula in The Return of Dracula (1958). He acted in theater and television, reprising the role in a 1971 episode of Night Gallery.
100years old at death
- Born Karlín
- Died Palm Springs
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 30 years1929 to 1959
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Early training
Lederer kept treating stage acting as something important. He trained at the Actors Studio in New York City under Elia Kazan.
A role that slipped away
In the 1939 production of No Time for Comedy, Francis Lederer stepped into the part that Laurence Olivier had played.
A first
Lederer's last TV role came in 1971, on Rod Serling's Night Gallery, in an episode titled "The Devil Is Not Mocked". There he played Dracula again, the part he had originated in The Return of Dracula.
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Worked with
Francis Lederer made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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Mitchell LeisenDirector, 1 film, 1939
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Anatole LitvakDirector, 1 film, 1939
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Paul LandresDirector, 1 film, 1958
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Awards
Two awards and honors.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other honors | |||
| Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, class III | Won | ||
| Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame | Honored | ||
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