Frederick Stafford
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Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928—28 July 1979) was an Austrian-born actor.
The Czech actor Frederick Stafford (Friedrich Strobel von Stein) was leading man in European spy-movies (his hero OSS 117 in two Bond-like-Adventures, in the first co-starring to Mylène Demongeot, in the second to Marina Vlady) and war-films (The Battle of El Alamein). These movies where mediocre B-Pictures, but he have got the attention of the master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock engaged him in 1968 to play the leading role as agent André Devereaux in Topaz (1969), who placed him as star. He married Austrian actress Marianne Hold. 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). His last success was an 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.
[edit] Films
- 1965: Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117 by André Hunebelle, starring Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot
- 1966: Estouffade à la Caraïbe by Jacques Besnard, starring Frederick Stafford, Jean Seberg
- 1966: Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut by Manfred R. Köhler, starring: Frederick Stafford, Geneviève Cluny
- 1967: Atout coeur à Tokyo pour O.S.S. 117 by Michel Boisrond, starring Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlady
- 1967: Dalle Ardenne all'inferno by Alberto De Martino, starring Frederick Stafford, Daniela Bianchi
- 1968: L' Homme qui valait des milliards by Michel Boisrond, starring Frederick Stafford, Anny Duperey
- 1969: The Battle of El Alamein, starring Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Robert Hossein
- 1969: Eagles Over London by Enzo G. Castellari, starring Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson
- 1969: Topaz by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade
- 1970: Abuso di potere by Camillo Bazzoni, starring Frederick Stafford, Marilù Tolo, Reinhard Kolldehoff
- 1973: La ragazza di via Condotti by German Lorente, starring Frederick Stafford, Claude Jade
- 1975: Bianchi cavalli d'Agosto by Raimond Del Balzo, starring Frederick Stafford, Jean Seberg
- 1976: Sfida sul fondo by Melciade Coletti, starring Frederick Stafford, Dagmar Lassander
- 1977: Hold-up by German Lorente, starring Frederick Stafford, Nathalie Delon
- 1977: Werewolf Man by Rino Di Silvestro, starring Frederick Stafford, Dagmar Lassander
