Fritz Leiber
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.
Samson and Delilah
as Lord SharifWhen strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks...
Movie pagePhantom of the Opera
as Franz LisztFollowing a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin...
Movie pageScarlet Street
as Evangelist (uncredited)Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful...
Movie pageMonsieur Verdoux
as Father FareauxThe film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining...
Movie pageThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Old NoblemanParis, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the...
Movie pageA Tale of Two Cities
as GaspardThe exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in...
Movie pageThe Sea Hawk
as InquisitorDashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love...
Movie pageHumoresque
as HagerstromA classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy,...
Movie pageThe Prince and the Pauper
as Father AndrewTwo boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when...
Movie pageThe Story of Louis Pasteur
as Dr. CharbonnetA true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is...
Movie pageThe Spanish Main
as BishopLaurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the...
Movie pageThe Web
as Leopold KronerA brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec...
Movie pageA Scandal in Paris
as PainterA smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
Movie pageAll This, and Heaven Too
as Abbe GallardWhen lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the...
Movie pageAngel on My Shoulder
as Chemist Who Poisoned Wife (uncredited)The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make...
Movie pageCobra Woman
as uncreditedA man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is...
Movie pageAloma of the South Seas
as High PriestA young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island...
Movie pageDevil's Doorway
as Mr. PooleA Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Movie pageInner Sanctum
as Dr. ValoniusA killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
Movie pageThe Way of All Flesh
as MaxPaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father...
Movie pageBagdad
as EmirAn Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian)...
Movie pageCrossroads
as Foreign Minister Deval (uncredited)A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Movie pageDangerous Venture
as Chief XeoliSue Morgan gets Hoppy and his friends to join their expedition looking for Indian artifacts....
Movie pagePack Up Your Troubles
as Pierre FerrandThree American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Movie pageAnother Part of the Forest
as Col. IshamThis 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard...
Movie pageGateway
as Dr. WeilanderIrish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she...
Movie pageFirst Comes Courage
as Dr. AanrudMerle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant....
Movie pageFlight Into Nowhere
as Ti-AnaWhen headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential...
Movie pageYouth Runs Wild
as Judge (uncredited)The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents...
Movie pageBells of San Angelo
as PadreGridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage...
Movie pageCry of the Werewolf
as Dr. Charles Morris (uncredited)A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
Movie pageThey Made Her a Spy
as Dr. KrullWhen her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and...
Movie pageTo the Ends of the Earth
as Binda ShaA treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Movie pageAnthony Adverse
as OuvrardBased on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the...
Movie pageCleopatra
as CaesarThe story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the...
Movie pageThe Jury's Secret
as John MorrowA reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her...
Movie pageAdventures of Casanova
as D'AnneciCasanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have...
Movie pageRomeo and Juliet
as MercutioShakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud...
Movie pageIf I Were King
as Louis XIJ. Gordon Edwards silent adventure melodrama about a famous poet who is allowed to rule France...
Movie pageThe Great Garrick
as Horatio in 'Hamlet'A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy...
Movie pageThis Love of Ours
as Dr. BaileyAt a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist...
Movie pageStrange Journey
as Prof. JennerReformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest...
Movie pageBride of Vengeance
as FilippoThe tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and...
Movie pageSong of India
as NanaramJungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a...
Movie pageNurse Edith Cavell
as Sadi KirschenBritish nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the...
Movie pageSins of Man
as Father PriorAustrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche)...
Movie pageHearts in Bondage
as Capt. John EricssonBest friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged...
Movie pageLady with Red Hair
as Mr. FosterAn actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Movie pageThe Queen of Sheba
as King SolomonThe story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
Movie pageThe Cisco Kid Returns
as The PadreAfter several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with...
Movie pageHigh Conquest
as PriestLove and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Movie pageThe Song of the Soul
as Jerry WendoverJerry Wendover, disfigured since childhood after his act of heroism in saving a little girl from...
Movie pageChampagne Waltz
as Franz StraussIn Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of...
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