Fritz Leiber
Acting
Born 1882-01-29
Died 1949-10-14
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
54 credits
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Samson and Delilah
Scarlet Street
The Sea Hawk
Monsieur Verdoux
Phantom of the Opera
A Tale of Two Cities
The Prince and the Pauper
The Spanish Main
All This, and Heaven Too
Strange Journey
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Nurse Edith Cavell
Humoresque
Angel on My Shoulder
A Scandal in Paris
Devil's Doorway
Aloma of the South Seas
Crossroads
The Web
Bride of Vengeance
They Made Her a Spy
Anthony Adverse
Cry of the Werewolf
Another Part of the Forest
Bagdad
Down to the Sea
Romeo and Juliet
The Jury's Secret
The Way of All Flesh
Inner Sanctum
Lady with Red Hair
Champagne Waltz
Gateway
Youth Runs Wild
To the Ends of the Earth
Pack Up Your Troubles
The Great Garrick
Bells of San Angelo
Sins of Man
This Love of Ours
Under Southern Stars
Flight Into Nowhere
Cleopatra
High Conquest
Dangerous Venture
Hearts in Bondage
The Cisco Kid Returns
Adventures of Casanova
First Comes Courage
Song of India
The Queen of Sheba
If I Were King
The Song of the Soul
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