Frederick Stafford

Frederick Stafford

Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czechoslovak-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, and was a leading man in European spy-movies. In 1964 French director André Hunebelle discovered him on holiday at a hotel in Bangkok and asked him "How would you like to make movies with me?". Stafford replied "Why not?" and replaced Kerwin Matthews to play an agent code-named OSS 117 in two Bond-like-adventures. The first co-starring with Mylène Demongeot, in the second with Marina Vlady. He also appeared in war-films (The Battle of El Alamein) and in Michel Boisronds thriller Million Dollar Man alongside Anny Duperey. These movies got him the attention of the Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock who signed him in 1968 to play the leading role as agent André Devereaux in Topaz (1969), but the film was not a success, and the casting of Stafford, whose performance was found lacking by critics, was largely blamed for its failure. Channel4 told: Heading the international cast is a very wooden Stafford, who is no Cary Grant. He married German actress Marianne Hold. He had a come-back in 1972 as Commissario Luca Micelli in Italian Giallo Shadows Unseen. Five years after Topaz he starred as detective Sandro Mattei beside the actress who played his daughter in Topaz, French actress Claude Jade, in the Italian thriller La ragazza di Via Condotti (Meurtres à Rome/Special Killers) (1973/74). In that movie the character of 20 years older Stafford has a brief platonic romance with Jade's character Tiffany. His last successes were the Spanish Movies Blood and Passion(1975) and White Horses of Summer (1975, starring Jean Seberg, his co-star from 1966 Estouffade à la Caraïbe), the Italian thriller Werewolf Man (1976) and the Spanish- Italian-French coproduction Hold-Up (1977). He died in 1979 in a plane crash. His son is the singer Roderick Stafford (born 1964), Flowers from Hitchcock. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frederick Stafford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Frederick Stafford
  • Popularity: 2.219
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-03-11
  • Place of Birth: Czechoslovakia
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Frederick Stafford Movies

  • 1969
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    Topaz

    Topaz

    6 1969 HD

    Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent...

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  • 1973
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    Special Killers

    Special Killers

    4 1973 HD

    Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds...

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  • 1969
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    Eagles Over London

    Eagles Over London

    6.2 1969 HD

    The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German...

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  • 1969
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    The Battle of El Alamein

    The Battle of El Alamein

    5.3 1969 HD

    June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units...

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  • 1965
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    OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

    OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

    7.7 1965 HD

    A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.

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  • 1967
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    Dirty Heroes

    Dirty Heroes

    5.3 1967 HD

    Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch...

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  • 1966
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    Agent 505 - Death Trap Beirut

    Agent 505 - Death Trap Beirut

    3.5 1966 HD

    A couple of beautiful girls are murdered while sunbathing at a luxury hotel. The killer too is murdered, but able to reveal – before dying -...

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  • 1966
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    O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

    O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

    6.8 1966 HD

    After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming...

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  • 1972
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    Shadows Unseen

    Shadows Unseen

    6.6 1972 HD

    When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't...

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  • 1974
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    Hold Up

    Hold Up

    4.5 1974 HD

    Robert is a police agent of American origins who lost his memory through an accident during a robbery in a branch of the Bank of America. A robber...

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  • 1967
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    The Looters

    The Looters

    3.5 1967 HD

    Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When he comes to, the athletic young man learns that...

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  • 1975
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    White Horses of Summer

    White Horses of Summer

    2 1975 HD

    The marital problems of an American couple come to a head while visiting southern Italy with their impressionable young son.

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  • 1976
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    Blood and Passion

    Blood and Passion

    5 1976 HD

    Pamplona, 1975: Dr. Navarro, a famous doctor in the city, feels strongly attracted to Juana, his nurse, who is also in love with the doctor. Navarro,...

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  • 1976
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    Werewolf Woman

    Werewolf Woman

    4.5 1976 HD

    A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her...

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  • 1967
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    Million Dollar Man

    Million Dollar Man

    4.3 1967 HD

    A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes...

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  • 1973
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    Suppose... I Break Your Neck

    Suppose... I Break Your Neck

    5 1973 HD

    The Italo-American playboy Rocky is an international thief, followed step by step by an FBI Inspector, who manages to keep a "loot" also "claimed" by...

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  • 1976
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    Fear Runs Deep

    Fear Runs Deep

    6 1976 HD

    An engineer has discovered a new special alloy for the construction of submarines and is about to launch it on the world market. To force him to give...

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