Leo Ditrichstein
Leo Ditrichstein is a Broadway performer known for The Ambitious Mrs. Alcott, All on Account of Eliza, Before and After, Bluffs, The Five Million, The Great Lover, Harriet's Honeymoon, High Jinks, The Honor of the Family, Is Matrimony a Failure?, The Last Appeal, The Matinee Hero, Military Mad, The Sword of the King, The Temperamental Journey, Tit For Tat, Unleavened Bread, Vivian's Papas, What's the Matter with Susan?, A Superfluous Husband, Gossip, and A Southern Romance. Explore their Broadway credits, shows, and songs below.
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About
Leo Ditrichstein was an Austrian-American actor, playwright, and book writer born on January 6, 1865, in Temesvár, in the Austrian Empire, a city also identified in records as Temesbar, Hungary. His grandfather was the Hungarian novelist József Eötvös, sometimes listed as Joseph von Etooes. Ditrichstein received his education in Vienna and later became a naturalized American citizen in 1897. He died on June 28, 1928, from heart disease at the Auersperg Sanitarium in Vienna.
His New York stage debut came in 1890 with Die Ehre, after which he appeared in productions including Mr. Wilkinson's Widows, Trilby, and Are You a Mason? His Broadway career spanned from 1895 to 1923, during which he took on roles in The Ambitious Mrs. Alcott, Is Matrimony a Failure?, and Bluffs, among other productions. He starred in The Great Lover and The Temperamental Journey, and in 1923 he was featured in Right is Might, a play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, presented at the Lyric Theatre in Philadelphia.
Ditrichstein was also a prolific playwright. His authored works include Gossip, written with Clyde Fitch in 1895; A Southern Romance in 1897; The Last Appeal in 1901; What's the Matter with Susan? in 1904; The Ambitious Mrs. Susan in 1907; The Concert in 1910; The Million, adapted from the French, in 1911; The Temperamental Journey in 1913; The Great Lover in 1915; and The Judge of Zalmea in 1917. His play Mlle. Fifi served as the basis for the 1917 motion picture The Divorce Game. In 1915, Ditrichstein made a cameo appearance as himself in the film How Molly Made Good, his sole screen credit.
Personal Details
- Born
- January 6, 1865
- Hometown
- Temesbar, HUNGARY
- Died
- June 28, 1928
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