Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1900-06-03
Day of Death
1986-12-25
Place of Birth
Nisko, Poland
Friedrich von Ledebur
Biography
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.
Filmography (38)
Ginger and Fred
1986
Wie der Mond über Feuer und Blut
1981
Bloodline
1979
The Standard
1977
Sorcerer
1977
Montana Trap
1976
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975Comenius
1975
An Invitation to the Hunt
1974
Ludwig
1973
Slaughterhouse-Five
1972
Fellini: The Director as Creator
1970Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970
The Christmas Tree
1969
