Fritz Leiber

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.

  • Title: Fritz Leiber
  • Popularity: 2.129
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1882-01-29
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Fritz Lieber, Fritz Reuter Leiber Sr.
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Fritz Leiber Movies

  • 1939
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    7.2 1939 HD

    Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...

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  • 1950
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    Devil's Doorway

    Devil's Doorway

    7 1950 HD

    A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

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  • 1916
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    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    1 1916 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    The Web

    The Web

    7 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    6.8 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Phantom of the Opera

    Phantom of the Opera

    6.2 1943 HD

    Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make...

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  • 1935
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    6.73 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Inner Sanctum

    Inner Sanctum

    5 1948 HD

    A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.

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  • 1948
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    To the Ends of the Earth

    To the Ends of the Earth

    5.6 1948 HD

    A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

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  • 1917
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    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    4.2 1917 HD

    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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  • 1947
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    Bells of San Angelo

    Bells of San Angelo

    4.5 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Dangerous Venture

    Dangerous Venture

    1 1947 HD

    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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  • 1936
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    The Story of Louis Pasteur

    The Story of Louis Pasteur

    6.9 1936 HD

    A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and...

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  • 1945
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    The Spanish Main

    The Spanish Main

    6.2 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    First Comes Courage

    First Comes Courage

    6.6 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Lady with Red Hair

    Lady with Red Hair

    6.5 1940 HD

    An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

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  • 1936
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    Hearts in Bondage

    Hearts in Bondage

    4.5 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    They Made Her a Spy

    They Made Her a Spy

    6 1939 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Under Southern Stars

    Under Southern Stars

    1 1937 HD

    Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate...

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  • 1937
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    The Great Garrick

    The Great Garrick

    5.9 1937 HD

    A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

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  • 1946
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    A Scandal in Paris

    A Scandal in Paris

    6.2 1946 HD

    A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

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  • 1941
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    Aloma of the South Seas

    Aloma of the South Seas

    5.7 1941 HD

    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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  • 1949
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    Bagdad

    Bagdad

    5.6 1949 HD

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

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  • 1936
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    Down to the Sea

    Down to the Sea

    4.5 1936 HD

    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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  • 1945
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    This Love of Ours

    This Love of Ours

    5.7 1945 HD

    At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes...

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  • 1939
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    Pack Up Your Troubles

    Pack Up Your Troubles

    6.2 1939 HD

    Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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  • 1948
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    Adventures of Casanova

    Adventures of Casanova

    5 1948 HD

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

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  • 1921
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    The Queen of Sheba

    The Queen of Sheba

    1 1921 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    Gateway

    Gateway

    6.5 1938 HD

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

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  • 1949
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    Song of India

    Song of India

    4.7 1949 HD

    Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    Bride of Vengeance

    Bride of Vengeance

    4.5 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Scarlet Street

    Scarlet Street

    7.6 1945 HD

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

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  • 1936
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    Sins of Man

    Sins of Man

    1 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    All This, and Heaven Too

    All This, and Heaven Too

    7.1 1940 HD

    When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...

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  • 1947
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    Monsieur Verdoux

    Monsieur Verdoux

    7.7 1947 HD

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

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  • 1945
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    The Cisco Kid Returns

    The Cisco Kid Returns

    8 1945 HD

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

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  • 1937
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    Champagne Waltz

    Champagne Waltz

    1 1937 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    Flight Into Nowhere

    Flight Into Nowhere

    4 1938 HD

    When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

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  • 1940
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    7.1 1940 HD

    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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  • 1940
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    The Way of All Flesh

    The Way of All Flesh

    4 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Crossroads

    Crossroads

    5.9 1942 HD

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

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  • 1947
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    Humoresque

    Humoresque

    7.1 1947 HD

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

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  • 1946
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    Strange Journey

    Strange Journey

    6 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Anthony Adverse

    Anthony Adverse

    5.7 1936 HD

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

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  • 1944
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    Cry of the Werewolf

    Cry of the Werewolf

    4.3 1944 HD

    A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.

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  • 1949
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    Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

    6.5 1949 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    The Jury's Secret

    The Jury's Secret

    3 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Angel on My Shoulder

    Angel on My Shoulder

    6.419 1946 HD

    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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  • 1947
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    High Conquest

    High Conquest

    1 1947 HD

    Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.

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  • 1920
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    The Song of the Soul

    The Song of the Soul

    1 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Another Part of the Forest

    Another Part of the Forest

    7.6 1948 HD

    This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

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  • 1920
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    1 1920 HD

    J. Gordon Edwards silent adventure melodrama about a famous poet who is allowed to rule France for a week!

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  • 1944
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    Cobra Woman

    Cobra Woman

    5.2 1944 HD

    A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

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  • 1944
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    Youth Runs Wild

    Youth Runs Wild

    4.2 1944 HD

    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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