Fritz Leiber

Acting

Народився 29 січня 1882, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Fritz Reuter Leiber Sr. was an American actor. A Shakespearean actor on stage, he also had a successful career in film. He was the father of science fiction and fantasy writer Fritz Leiber Jr., who was also an actor for a time. Leiber and his wife spent much of their time touring in a Shakespearean acting company, known by the 1930s as Fritz Leiber & Co. Leiber made his film bow in 1916, playing Mercutio in the Francis X. Bushman version of “Romeo and Juliet.” With his piercing eyes and shock of white hair, Leiber seemed every inch the priests, professors, musical professors, and religious fanatics that he was frequently called upon to play in films. His many silent-era portrayals included Caesar in Theda Bara's 1917 “Cleopatra” and Solomon in the mammoth 1921 Betty Blythe vehicle “The Queen of Sheba.” He thrived as a character actor in sound films, usually in historical roles. In the film “Champagne Waltz” he portrayed an orchestra maestro; the role required him to play classical music on a violin and jazz on a clarinet. One of Leiber's larger assignments of the 1940s, and his most notable musical role, was as Franz Liszt in the Claude Rains' remake of “Phantom of the Opera” (1943). Leiber appears together with his son Fritz Leiber Jr. in the wedding-feast scene of Greta Garbo's film “Camille” (1936) and in Warner Bros.' “The Great Garrick” (1937). Leiber also appeared with his son Fritz Leiber Jr. in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939), but Fritz Leiber Jr. was not credited for his small speaking part. Late in his career, Leiber performed briefly opposite Charles Chaplin as the priest who visits Monsieur Verdoux in his prison cell.

Фільмографія

• 1950Devil's Doorway — Mr. Poole
• 1949Bagdad — Emir
• 1949Bride of Vengeance — Filippo
• 1949Samson and Delilah — Lord Sharif
• 1949Song of India — Nanaram
• 1948Adventures of Casanova — D'Anneci
• 1948Another Part of the Forest — Col. Isham
• 1948Inner Sanctum — Dr. Valonius
• 1948To the Ends of the Earth — Binda Sha
• 1947Bells of San Angelo — Padre
• 1947Dangerous Venture — Chief Xeoli
• 1947High Conquest — Priest
• 1947Humoresque — Hagerstrom
• 1947Monsieur Verdoux — Father Fareaux
• 1947The Web — Leopold Kroner
• 1946A Scandal in Paris — Painter
• 1946Angel on My Shoulder — Chemist Who Poisoned Wife (uncredited)
• 1946Strange Journey — Prof. Jenner
• 1945The Cisco Kid Returns — The Padre
• 1945The Spanish Main — Bishop
• 1945This Love of Ours — Dr. Bailey
• 1945Багряна вулиця — Evangelist (uncredited)
• 1944Cobra Woman
• 1944Cry of the Werewolf — Dr. Charles Morris
• 1944Youth Runs Wild — Judge (uncredited)
• 1943First Comes Courage — Dr. Aanrud
• 1943Привид опери — Franz Liszt
• 1942Crossroads — Foreign Minister Deval (uncredited)
• 1941Aloma of the South Seas — High Priest
• 1940All This, and Heaven Too — Abbe Gallard
• 1940Lady with Red Hair — Mr. Foster
• 1940The Sea Hawk — Inquisitor
• 1940The Way of All Flesh — Max
• 1939Nurse Edith Cavell — Sadi Kirschen
• 1939Pack Up Your Troubles — Pierre Ferrand
• 1939The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Old Nobleman
• 1939They Made Her a Spy — Dr. Krull
• 1938Flight Into Nowhere — Ti-Ana
• 1938Gateway — Dr. Weilander
• 1938The Jury's Secret — John Morrow
• 1937Champagne Waltz — Franz Strauss
• 1937The Great Garrick — Horatio in 'Hamlet'
• 1937The Prince and the Pauper — Father Andrew
• 1937Under Southern Stars — Stonewall Jackson
• 1936Anthony Adverse — Ouvrard
• 1936Down to the Sea — Gregory Pappas
• 1936Hearts in Bondage — Capt. John Ericsson
• 1936Sins of Man — Father Prior
• 1936The Story of Louis Pasteur — Dr. Charbonnet
• 1935A Tale of Two Cities — Gaspard
• 1921The Queen of Sheba — King Solomon
• 1920If I Were King — Louis XI
• 1920The Song of the Soul — Jerry Wendover
• 1917Cleopatra — Caesar
• 1916Romeo and Juliet — Mercutio