1900-06-03 ( 124 years old ) in Nisko, Poland
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".
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Movies
Ginger and Fred
1986-01-13
Wie der Mond über Feuer und Blut
1981-01-01
Bloodline
1979-06-29
The Standard
1977-11-25
Sorcerer
1977-06-24
Montana Trap
1976-05-05
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975-12-16
Comenius
1975-02-28
An Invitation to the Hunt
1974-11-01
Ludwig
1973-03-07
Slaughterhouse-Five
1972-03-15
Ride This Way Grey Horse
1970-01-01
The Christmas Tree
1969-09-25
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
1969-02-21
The Fight for Rome
1968-12-17
Assignment K
1968-02-16
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967-10-13
The Blue Max
1966-06-21
Juliet of the Spirits
1965-10-22
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
1965-03-04
Yellow Devil
1964-08-20
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964-03-24
Barabbas
1961-12-23
A Breath of Scandal
1960-03-16
Enchanted Island
1958-11-08
The Roots of Heaven
1958-10-15
The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957-03-01
Voodoo Island
1957-02-01
The 27th Day
1957-01-07
Moby Dick
1956-06-27
Alexander the Great
1956-03-28
The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948-03-25
My Girl Tisa
1948-02-07
Notorious
1946-08-21
A Royal Scandal
1945-03-26
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