
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.457 |
Birthday | 1882-01-29 |
Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Fritz Lieber, Fritz Reuter Leiber Sr. , |

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.3/196
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1950

Devil's Doorway
7/41
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
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Devil's Doorway

1916

Romeo and Juliet
0/0
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fa...
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Romeo and Juliet

1947

The Web
7/41
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly real...
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The Web

1937

The Prince and the Pauper
6.743/37
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meet...
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The Prince and the Pauper

1943

Phantom of the Opera
6.2/194
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful...
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Phantom of the Opera

1935

A Tale of Two Cities
6.806/67
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on t...
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A Tale of Two Cities

1948

Inner Sanctum
5/26
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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Inner Sanctum

1948

To the Ends of the Earth
5.7/17
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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To the Ends of the Earth

1917

Cleopatra
4.2/5
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a...
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Cleopatra

1947

Bells of San Angelo
4.5/8
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gr...
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Bells of San Angelo

1947

Dangerous Venture
0/0
Sue Morgan gets Hoppy and his friends to join their expedition looking for Indian artifacts. Expedition leader Atwood makes a deal with nearby cattle...
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Dangerous Venture

1936

The Story of Louis Pasteur
6.844/45
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and tha...
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The Story of Louis Pasteur

1945

The Spanish Main
6.3/30
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartag...
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The Spanish Main

1943

First Comes Courage
6.6/8
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies la...
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First Comes Courage

1940

Lady with Red Hair
6.5/6
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Lady with Red Hair

1936

Hearts in Bondage
4.9/7
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War...
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Hearts in Bondage

1939

They Made Her a Spy
6/2
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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They Made Her a Spy

1937

Under Southern Stars
0/0
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate Gen...
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Under Southern Stars

1937

The Great Garrick
5.9/10
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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The Great Garrick

1946

A Scandal in Paris
6.3/30
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
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A Scandal in Paris

1941

Aloma of the South Seas
5.7/3
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
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Aloma of the South Seas

1949

Bagdad
5.6/11
An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.
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Bagdad

1936

Down to the Sea
4.5/2
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Down to the Sea

1945

This Love of Ours
5.7/3
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and...
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This Love of Ours

1939

Pack Up Your Troubles
6.2/2
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Pack Up Your Troubles

1948

Adventures of Casanova
5/3
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in gueri...
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Adventures of Casanova

1921

The Queen of Sheba
0/0
The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
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The Queen of Sheba

1938

Gateway
6.5/3
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h...
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Gateway

1949

Song of India
4.7/3
Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
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Song of India

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell
6.4/10
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-...
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Nurse Edith Cavell

1949

Bride of Vengeance
4.5/2
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murde...
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Bride of Vengeance

1945

Scarlet Street
7.6/388
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only...
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Scarlet Street

1936

Sins of Man
0/0
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the secon...
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Sins of Man

1940

All This, and Heaven Too
7.163/49
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip...
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All This, and Heaven Too

1947

Monsieur Verdoux
7.7/426
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his wo...
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Monsieur Verdoux

1945

The Cisco Kid Returns
7/2
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actua...
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The Cisco Kid Returns

1937

Champagne Waltz
0/1
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...
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Champagne Waltz

1938

Flight Into Nowhere
4/2
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he en...
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Flight Into Nowhere

1940

The Sea Hawk
7.2/130
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Sea Hawk

1940

The Way of All Flesh
4/6
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so...
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The Way of All Flesh

1942

Crossroads
5.9/35
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Crossroads

1947

Humoresque
7.1/60
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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Humoresque

1946

Strange Journey
6/1
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patt...
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Strange Journey

1936

Anthony Adverse
5.7/30
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by...
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Anthony Adverse

1944

Cry of the Werewolf
4.3/22
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
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Cry of the Werewolf

1949

Samson and Delilah
6.507/220
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regr...
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Samson and Delilah

1938

The Jury's Secret
3/1
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the inn...
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The Jury's Secret

1946

Angel on My Shoulder
6.4/37
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Angel on My Shoulder

1947

High Conquest
0/0
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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High Conquest

1920

The Song of the Soul
0/0
Jerry Wendover, disfigured since childhood after his act of heroism in saving a little girl from a fire scarred his face, secludes himself in an old h...
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The Song of the Soul

1948

Another Part of the Forest
7.6/11
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Another Part of the Forest

1920

If I Were King
0/0
J. Gordon Edwards silent adventure melodrama about a famous poet who is allowed to rule France for a week!
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If I Were King

1944

Cobra Woman
5.2/23
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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Cobra Woman

1944

Youth Runs Wild
4.2/9
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
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