Acting

Otto Lederer

Born April 17, 1886 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Died September 3, 1965 · aged 79

Otto Lederer (May 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably The Jazz Singer, the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and Hardy short You're Darn Tootin'. Lederer was born in Prague. In 1925, He married Segunda Yriondo. They were divorced on July 10, 1929. He later married actress Gretchen L…

Known For

Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein · 1935

Bride of Frankenstein

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer · 1927

The Jazz Singer

MovieDramaMusic

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

The Raven

The Raven · 1935

MovieHorrorCrime

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1925

The Wizard of Oz

MovieComedyFamily

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

East of Java

East of Java · 1935

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

The King of Kings

The King of Kings · 1927

The King of Kings

MovieDramaHistory

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

White Eagle

White Eagle · 1922

MovieActionDrama

Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.

Filmography

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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein · 1935

Bride of Frankenstein

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Assistant Makeup Artist

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter · 1936

Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Makeup Artist

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer · 1927

The Jazz Singer

MovieDramaMusic

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Moisha Yudelson

The Raven

The Raven · 1935

MovieHorrorCrime

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

Makeup Artist

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1925

The Wizard of Oz

MovieComedyFamily

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

Ambassador Wikked

East of Java

East of Java · 1935

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

Makeup Artist

The King of Kings

The King of Kings · 1927

The King of Kings

MovieDramaHistory

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

Eber - a Pharisee

White Eagle

White Eagle · 1922

MovieActionDrama

Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.

Gray Wolf

Forgotten

Forgotten · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.

Uncle Adolph

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood · 1935

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

MovieDramaMystery

A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

Makeup Artist

Tower of London

Tower of London · 1939

Tower of London

MovieDramaHistory

In the 15th century, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother, King Edward IV of England.

Makeup Artist

The Sword of Valor

The Sword of Valor · 1924

The Sword of Valor

MovieDramaAdventure

American romantic comedy which had the well known Australian actor Snowy Baker as a cast member. The daughter of a Spanish don falls in love with an American captain the moment she sees him. Her father takes the girl to the Riveria, where she is promised to a wealthy cad, but the captain arrives in time to rescue her from him as well as a crazed gypsy who has abducted her.

The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop

The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop · 1917

The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop

MovieDramaWestern

Captain George Curtis is sent from Washington, D.C. to improve conditions on an Indian reservation. After ousting a prejudiced government agent, George earns both the allegiance of the Indians and the hostility of neighboring cattlemen, who hope to appropriate the reservation through political corruption.

Crawling Elk

The Invisible Ray

The Invisible Ray · 1936

The Invisible Ray

MovieScience FictionHorror

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

Makeup Artist

The Struggle

The Struggle · 1921

Spirited story of West, which begins after the hero has spent four years overseas and has left the army so much of a fighting devil that he becomes embroiled in a mix-up. Learning that his antagonist has died from wounds is the reason for the hero going West, when he meets a tramp who is on his way to join a gang of outlaws and who invites the ex-soldier to join.

Director

The Cloudhopper

The Cloudhopper · 1925

The Cloudhopper

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase footage you'll ever see. All the near-misses with the speeding train were amazing and the scene where the car gets smashed by the truck are absolutely priceless.

The Alaskan Count

Sailor Izzy Murphy

Sailor Izzy Murphy · 1927

Sailor Izzy Murphy

MovieComedyDrama

Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.

Jake

Behind Two Guns

Behind Two Guns · 1924

Behind Two Guns

Medicine Man Doctor Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still locked strongbox is opened only to find the money missing and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner now set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.

Olaf Ludovic - aka Dr. Betz

You're Darn Tootin'

You're Darn Tootin' · 1928

You're Darn Tootin'

Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.

Bandleader

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy · 1931

MovieDramaCrime

The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Great Expectations

Great Expectations · 1934

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Assistant Makeup Artist

Aladdin from Broadway

Aladdin from Broadway · 1917

Aladdin from Broadway

Aladdin from Broadway is a 1917 American silent adventure film directed by William Wolbert.

Amad

Fight and Win

Fight and Win · 1924

Fight and Win is a 1924 American silent drama serial film directed by Erle C. Kenton.

The Trunk Mystery

The Trunk Mystery · 1926

The Trunk Mystery

A former secret agent acquired a trunk at a police auction, and the same night his house is robbed. It becomes apparent that some criminals stashed their loot in the trunk a few years before.

Stevanov