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. Lederers 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 Thalbergs 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 Leisens 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 Lederers 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 Plays the Thing (1942), A Dolls 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 Renoirs 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 Ambassadors 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 Serlings Night Gallery called The Devil Is Not Mocked. In it, he reprised his role as Dracula from The Return of Dracula.
Alwa Schön
Фильм 1929
Robert
Фильм 1930
Jan Volny / El Hombre
Фильм 1944
James Harlan Corbin
Фильм 1946
Claude Manelli
Фильм 1953
Alan Marker
Фильм 1948
Self
Фильм 1991
Count Dracula
Фильм 1958
Count Dracula - (archive footage)
Фильм 1986
Dr. Charles Girard
Фильм 1959
Esteban / Manuel
Фильм 1944
Georges de Chambry
Фильм 1929
Michael Lanyard
Фильм 1938
Paul Simone
Фильм 1950
Lt. Michael Rostof
Фильм 1929
Max Christmann
Фильм 1934
Philippe Martin
Фильм 1936
Count Ferdinand von und zu Reidenach
Фильм 1936
Karel Novak
Фильм 1935
Eric Hoffman
Фильм 1940
Aigo
Фильм 1934
Miguel Orlando
Фильм 1958
Seraphim
Фильм 1956
Jimmy Barnes
Фильм 1937
Karl Fenn
Фильм 1929
Self (uncredited)
Фильм 1937
Jan Bergwall
Фильм 1930
Prince Karl
Фильм 1941
Himself
Фильм 1930
Boris Borrisoff
Фильм 1930
Fred von Wellingen
Фильм 1933
Henry Vaan
Фильм 1950
Claude Manelli
Фильм 1952
Dr. Wolfgang Crusius
Фильм 1930
Werner Hilsoe
Фильм 1928
Gerd
Фильм 1931
Self
Фильм 1935
Self - Interviewee
Фильм 1976
Self
Фильм 1996
Martin Falkhagen
Фильм 1928
Self (archive footage)
Фильм 2009
Peter
Фильм 1929
Dr. Jeremias Lipp
Tv 1963
Vittorio Barrini
Tv 1966
Rene d'Arcy
Tv 1948
Tv 1970
Senko Brobin
Tv 1966
Charles
Tv 1950
Tv 1951
Tv 1955
Tv 1948
Tv 1961
Baron
Tv 1950
Brauer
Tv 1958
Tv 1966
Self
Tv 1975