Friedrich von Ledebur
Actor, Film actor
1900 – 1986
Who was Friedrich von Ledebur?
Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln was an actor who was known for Moby Dick, Alexander the Great and Slaughterhouse-Five.
Ledebur was born in Austria-Hungary 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 1945, von Ledebur made his film debut. He later appeared in Alexander the Great, and played chief harpooneer Queequeg, a South Sea cannibal chief, in the film Moby Dick. "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 Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man"
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- Born
- Jun 3, 1900
Nisko - Also known as
- Graf Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius von Ledebur-Wicheln
- Friedrich Von Ledebur
- Fredrich Ledebur
- Frederick von Ledebur
- Friedrich Ledebur
- Frederich Ledebur
- Fredrick Ledebur
- Frederic Ledebur
- Frederick Ledebur
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Iris Tree
(1927 - ) - Gräfin Alice Hoyos von Stichsenstein
(1955 - )
- Iris Tree
- Children
- Nationality
- Austria
- Austria-Hungary
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 25, 1986
Linz
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on July 23, 2013
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