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Occupation
  
actor

Children
  
Roderick Stafford

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Frederick Stafford

Years active
  
1965–1977


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Full Name
  
Friedrich Strobel von Stein

Born
  
March 11, 1928 (
1928-03-11
)

Died
  
July 28, 1979, Lugano, Switzerland

Spouse
  
Marianne Hold (m. 1964–1979)

Movies
  
Topaz, Eagles Over London, OSS 117 Mission for a Killer, Dirty Heroes, OSS 117 ‑ Terror in Tokyo

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Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czech-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, and was a leading man in European spy-movies.

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Early life

By some accounts, Stafford claimed to have played water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Fluent in five languages, he moved to Australia in the 1950s and held a series of positions in the pharmaceutical industry.

Film career

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In 1964 French director André Hunebelle discovered Stafford on holiday at a hotel in Bangkok and asked him "How would you like to make movies with me?" Stafford replied, "Why not?," and replaced Kerwin Mathews to play an agent code-named OSS 117 in two Bond-like-adventures. He co-starred in the first one with Mylène Demongeot, and in the second with Marina Vlady. He also appeared in macaroni combat war-films (The Battle of El Alamein) and in Michel Boisronds thriller Million Dollar Man alongside Anny Duperey.

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These movies brought the attention of Alfred Hitchcock, who signed him in 1968 to play the leading role as agent André Devereaux in Topaz (1969), but the film was not a success. The casting of Stafford, whose performance was found lacking by critics, was largely blamed for its failure. Channel4 claimed, "Heading the international cast is a very wooden Stafford, who is no Cary Grant."

He made a come-back in 1972 as Commissario Luca Micelli in the Italian Giallo Shadows Unseen. Five years after Topaz, he starred with French actress Claude Jade (who had played his daughter in Topaz) in the Italian thriller La ragazza di via Condotti (Meurtres à Rome/Special Killers) (1973/74). In that movie, Stafford's character has a brief platonic romance with Jade's character despite a 20-year age difference. His last successes were the Spanish Movies Blood and Passion (1975) and White Horses of Summer (1975, starring Jean Seberg, his co-star from 1966 Estouffade à la Caraïbe), the Italian thriller Werewolf Man (1976) and the Spanish-Italian-French coproduction Hold-Up (1977).

Personal life

He married German actress Marianne Hold who he met whilst both of them were in Bangkok. His son is the singer Roderick Stafford, who was born in 1964.

Death

Stafford died in 1979 in a collision of two aircraft above Lake Sarnen, Switzerland. A Morane-Saulnier Rallye piloted by Czech-born Pavel Krahulec, M.D., and in which Stafford was a passenger collided with a Piper aircraft, piloted by businessman Alois Fischer of Thoune, Switzerland

Filmography

Actor
1976
Fear Runs Deep as
Giulio Valdesio
1976
Werewolf Woman as
Inspector Modica
1976
Blood and Passion as
Doctor Navarro (as Frederick Stanford)
1975
White Horses of Summer as
Nicholas Kingsburg
1974
Hold-Up, instantánea de una corrupción as
Robert Cunningham
1973
Metti... che ti rompo il muso as
Rocky Miller
1973
Special Killers as
Sandro Mattei
1972
Shadows Unseen as
Commissioner Luca Miceli
1969
Topaz: Alternative Endings (Video short) as
Andre Devereaux
1969
Topaz as
Andre Devereaux
1969
Eagles Over London as
Captain Paul Stevens
1969
The Battle of El Alamein as
Lt. Giorgio Borri
1967
Dirty Heroes as
Joe Mortimer, Sesame
1967
The Man Who Was Worth Millions as
Jean Sarton
1967
The Looters as
Sam Morgan
1966
Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 as
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117
1966
Agent 505 - Todesfalle Beirut as
Richard Blake, Agent 505
1965
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer as
Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117
Self
1967
Cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
Self
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Archive Footage
2001
Fantômas 70 (Video documentary) as
Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117
2001
'Topaz': An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin (Video documentary short) as
Self

References

Frederick Stafford Wikipedia