Friedrich von Ledebur

Friedrich von Ledebur

Born: June 3, 1900
Died: December 25, 1986
in Nisko, Poland
Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln (June 3, 1900 – December 25, 1986) was an Austrian actor who was known for Moby Dick (1956), Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972).

Ledebur was born in Nisko, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Poland) in 1900. Friedrich enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army in 1916, and was an officer in the Austrian Cavalry Division during the last years of World War I.

In the 1930s Ledebur became a close friend of Charles Bedaux, with whom he traveled extensively in Africa and Canada.

After the war, Ledebur spent the next two decades travelling the world, working all manner of odd jobs from gold mining to deep sea diving, to riding and winning prize money at rodeos. Ledebur settled in the United States in 1939 and anglicised his name to 'Frederick'.

A close friendship with fellow adventurer and director John Huston, gave Ledebur his entrée to character acting.

In 1945, von Ledebur made his film debut. He later appeared in Alexander the Great (1955), and played chief harpooneer Queequeg, a South Sea chieftain, in the film Moby Dick (1956). "Better a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian", Herman Melville's Ishmael famously says of Queequeg in the book and the film. He appeared as Brother Christophorus in The Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man".

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Ginger and Fred
Title: Ginger and Fred
Character: Admiral Aulenti
Released: January 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
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Wie der Mond über Feuer und Blut
Title: Wie der Mond über Feuer und Blut
Character: General Schwerin
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Bloodline
Title: Bloodline
Character: Innkeeper
Released: June 29, 1979
Type: Movie
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
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The Standard
Title: The Standard
Character: General
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
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Sorcerer
Title: Sorcerer
Character: 'Carlos'
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
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Montana Trap
Title: Montana Trap
Character: Martin Ross
Released: May 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Title: A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Character: Don Felipe
Released: December 16, 1975
Type: Movie
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
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Comenius
Title: Comenius
Character: Kanzler Oxenstjerna
Released: February 28, 1975
Type: Movie
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Une invitation à la chasse
Title: Une invitation à la chasse
Character: Prince Von Ehrenberg
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
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Title: Engadiner Bilderbogen
Character: Carlo Bivetti
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: TV
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Ludwig
Title: Ludwig
Character: Hofmarschall (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five
Character: German Leader
Released: March 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
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Title: La Demoiselle d'Avignon
Character: Roi de Kurlande, grand-père de Koba, Rollon...
Released: January 8, 1972
Type: TV
Koba is a princess, a real one. To meet up the men she loves, she finds herself in Paris... François is a diplomat. He thinks he loves a student. Little does he know that his Cinderella wears a crown. To find her again he becomes ambassador of France in her country: Kurland...
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Ride This Way Grey Horse
Title: Ride This Way Grey Horse
Character: Horse Master
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Making of A Walk with Love and Death.
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The Christmas Tree
Title: The Christmas Tree
Character: Vernet
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.
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The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Title: The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Character: Hildebrand
Released: February 21, 1969
Type: Movie
The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.
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The Fight for Rome
Title: The Fight for Rome
Character: Hildebrand
Released: December 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.
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Assignment K
Title: Assignment K
Released: February 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Title: Reflections in a Golden Eye
Character: Lieutenant at Garden Party (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
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The Blue Max
Title: The Blue Max
Character: Feldmarschall von Lenndorf
Released: June 21, 1966
Type: Movie
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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Juliet of the Spirits
Title: Juliet of the Spirits
Character: Medium
Released: October 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Title: Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Character: Count Don Fernando di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
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Yellow Devil
Title: Yellow Devil
Character: Mübarek
Released: August 20, 1964
Type: Movie
When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Title: The Fall of the Roman Empire
Character: Barbarian (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1964
Type: Movie
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decission about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Officer (as Frederich Ledebur)
Released: December 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
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A Breath of Scandal
Title: A Breath of Scandal
Character: Count Sandor
Released: March 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Brother Christophorus
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Enchanted Island
Title: Enchanted Island
Character: Mehevi
Released: November 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
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The Roots of Heaven
Title: The Roots of Heaven
Character: Peer Qvist
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.
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The Man Who Turned to Stone
Title: The Man Who Turned to Stone
Character: Eric
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.
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Voodoo Island
Title: Voodoo Island
Character: Native Chief
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
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The 27th Day
Title: The 27th Day
Character: Dr. Karl Neuhaus
Released: January 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Queequeg
Released: June 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Character: Antipater (as Friedrich Ledebur)
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.
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The Great Sinner
Title: The Great Sinner
Character: Casino Secretary
Released: June 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Title: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Character: Workman (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: Igor (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Knerr
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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A Royal Scandal
Title: A Royal Scandal
Character: Russian General (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.