Friedrich von Ledebur
- Interpretación
- 3 de junio de 1900 · Nisko, Poland
- 25 de diciembre de 1986
Biografía
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". Source: Article "Friedrich von Ledebur" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Filmografía
- Ginger y Fred · Admiral Aulenti
- Wie der Mond über Feuer und Blut · General Schwerin
- Lazos de Sangre · Innkeeper
- La última bandera · General
- Carga maldita · 'Carlos'
- Masacre en Condor Pass · Martin Ross
- El Genio · Don Felipe
- Comenius · Kanzler Oxenstjerna
- Une invitation à la chasse · Prince Von Ehrenberg
- Engadiner Bilderbogen · Carlo Bivetti
- Luis II de Baviera, el rey loco · Hofmarschall (uncredited)
- Matadero Cinco · German Leader
- La Demoiselle d'Avignon · Roi de Kurlande, grand-père de Koba, Rollon...
- Fellini: The Director as Creator
- Ride This Way Grey Horse · Horse Master
- Vidas truncadas · Vernet
- Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat · Hildebrand
- La invasión de los bárbaros · Hildebrand
- Oedipus the King · King Laius
- Enviado especial K
- Reflejos en un ojo dorado · Lieutenant at Garden Party (uncredited)
- Las águilas azules · Feldmarschall von Lenndorf
- Giulietta de los espiritus · Medium
- Der Schatz der Azteken · Count Don Fernando di Rodriganda y Sevilla
- Der Schut · Mübarek
- La caída del Imperio romano · Barbarian (uncredited)
- Barrabás · Officer (as Frederich Ledebur), Stunts
- Escándalo en la corte · Count Sandor
- La dimensión desconocida · Brother Christophorus
- Enchanted Island · Mehevi
- Las raíces del cielo · Peer Qvist
- The Man Who Turned to Stone · Eric
- Voodoo Island · Native Chief
- El Día 27 · Dr. Karl Neuhaus
- Moby Dick · Queequeg
- Alejandro el Magno · Antipater (as Friedrich Ledebur)
- El gran pecador · Casino Secretary
- Los Blandings ya tienen casa · Workman (uncredited)
- My Girl Tisa · Igor (uncredited)
- Ambiciosa
- Encadenados · Knerr (uncredited)
- La zarina · Russian General (uncredited)