Friedrich von Ledebur

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Friedrich von Ledebur
von Ledebur in The 27th Day (1957)
Born	Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln (1900-06-03)3 June 1900 Nisko, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	25 December 1986(1986-12-25) (aged 86) Linz, Austria
Years active	1945–1982
Known for	Actor in Moby Dick, Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Height	6 ft 7 in (201 cm) [1]
Spouses	Iris Tree ​ ​ (m. 1934, divorced)​ Gräfin Alice Hoyos von Stichsenstein ​ ​ (m. 1955)​
Children	2

Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln ((1900-06-03)3 June 1900 – (1986-12-25)25 December 1986) was an Austrian actor who was known for Moby Dick (1956), Alexander the Great (1955) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972).

Ledebur was born in Nisko, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Poland) in 1900. Friedrich enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1916, and was an officer in the Austrian Cavalry Division during the last years of World War I.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1930s Ledebur became a close friend of Charles Bedaux, with whom he traveled extensively in Africa and Canada.^[2] After the war, Ledebur spent the next two decades travelling the world, working all manner of odd jobs from gold mining to deep sea diving, to riding and winning prize money at rodeos. Ledebur settled in the United States in 1939 and anglicised his name to 'Frederick'. A close friendship with fellow adventurer and director John Huston, gave Ledebur his entrée to character acting.^[3]

In 1945, Ledebur made his film debut. He later appeared in Alexander the Great (1955), and played chief harpooneer Queequeg, a South Sea chieftain, in the film Moby Dick (1956). "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 The Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man".

Ledebur died on December 25, 1986 of undisclosed causes, presumably old age, in Linz, Austria. He was 86 years old.

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