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Francis Lederer

Francis Lederer

Acting
05 Nov 1899
25 May 2000
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Biography

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. 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...

Also Known As

Franz Lederer, František Lederer

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