Francis Lederer

演员, 导演

1899年11月5日 — 2000年5月25日 (100年)
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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 death of Thalberg ended this possibility.

Although he continued to play leads occasionally – notably when he was a playboy in Mitchell Leisen's 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 Lederer's 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 Play's the Thing (1942), A Doll's 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 Renoir's 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 Ambassador's 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 Serling's Night Gallery called "The Devil Is Not Mocked". In it, he reprised his role as Dracula from The Return of Dracula.

Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • That Girl
    That Girl5季
  • The Many Faces of Dracula
    The Many Faces of Dracula2000

知名作品

  • 潘多拉的魔盒
    潘多拉的魔盒1929
  • 德古拉归来
    德古拉归来1958
  • 午夜
    午夜1939
  • 一个纳粹间谍的自白
    一个纳粹间谍的自白1939
  • 曼哈顿罗曼史
    曼哈顿罗曼史1935
  • 恐怖的男人
    恐怖的男人1959
  • The Gay Deception
    The Gay Deception1935
  • 女仆日记
    女仆日记1946
  • One Rainy Afternoon
    One Rainy Afternoon1936
  • 古堡歼仇记
    古堡歼仇记1950
  • 里斯本
    里斯本1956
  • 尼娜佩特罗娜的美妙谎言
    尼娜佩特罗娜的美妙谎言1929
  • Million Dollar Weekend
    Million Dollar Weekend1948
  • 大使千金
    大使千金1956
  • A Woman of Distinction
    A Woman of Distinction1950
  • 蜂鸟妈妈
    蜂鸟妈妈1929
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey1944
  • 77 Sunset Strip
    77 Sunset Strip6季

影视作品

2000
The Many Faces of Dracula · as ArchivalPlex提供
1992
1969
1968
It Takes a Thief · as Hoffman
1966
Mission: Impossible · as Senko Brobin
1966
That Girl · as Vittorio BarriniPlex提供
1966
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre · as Dr. Jeremias Lipp
1961
1959
Terror Is a Man · as Dr. Charles Girard
1959
Sunday Showcase · as Mario Morgan
1959
The Untouchables · as Walter Messlinger
1958
Maracaibo · as Miguel Orlando
1958
The Return of Dracula · as Count Dracula
1957
The DuPont Show of the Month · as Dr. Gottlieb
1956
Lisbon · as Seraphim
1956
The Ambassador's Daughter · as Prince Nicholas Obelski
1955
1954
The Elgin Hour · as Ferrante
1953
Stolen Identity · as Claude Manelli
1952
Adventures in Vienna · as Claude Manelli
1951
1950
The Lux Video Theatre · as Charles
1950
Surrender · as Henry Vaan
1950
A Woman of Distinction · as Paul Simone
1950
1949
Captain Carey, U.S.A. · as Baron Rocco De Greffi
1948
Studio One · as Rene D'arcy
1948
Million Dollar Weekend · as Alan Marker
1948
1946
The Madonna's Secret · as James Harlan Corbin
1946
1944
Voice in the Wind · as Jan Volny / El Hombre
1944
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
1939
Midnight · as Jacques Picot
1938
The Lone Wolf in Paris · as Michael Lanyard
1937
It's All Yours · as Jimmy Barnes
1936
My American Wife · as Count Ferdinand Von Und Zu Reidenach
1936
One Rainy Afternoon · as Philippe Martin
1935
The Gay Deception · as Sandro
1934
Romance in Manhattan · as Karel Novak
1934
The Pursuit of Happiness · as Max Christmann
1934
1931
Her Majesty Love · as Fred Von Wellingen
1929
Mother Hummingbird · as Georges De Chambry
1929
Atlantic · as Peter
1929
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna · as Lt. Michael Rostof
1929
Pandora's Box · as Alwa Schön