---
name: "Otto Lederer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/otto-lederer"
fi1m_id: "otto-lederer"
imdb_id: "nm0496470"
tmdb_id: 14289
wikidata_id: "Q3357824"
roles: ["Makeup trainee"]
born: "17 April 1886"
died: "3 September 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:25:35.308105+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Otto Lederer

## Identity

Otto Lederer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/otto-lederer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** otto-lederer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0496470
- **TMDB ID:** 14289
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3357824
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lederer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3357824, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14289

Makeup trainee. Born 17 April 1886 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Died 3 September 1965.

## Details

- **Work:** Makeup trainee
- **Born:** 17 April 1886, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
- **Died:** 3 September 1965
- **Active:** 1927–1935
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 65 (1), 1930s 89 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lederer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3357824, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14289

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Jazz Singer*](https://film.one/film/the-jazz-singer.md) (65)

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## Biography

Otto Lederer was a Czech-American film actor. Born in Prague in 1886, he appeared in around 120 films between 1912 and 1933, and directed two shorts in 1919 and 1921. He later worked in the makeup department on several films.

He is known for his roles in *The Jazz Singer* (1927) as Moisha Yudelson, *The King of Kings* (1927) as Eber, *The Wizard of Oz* (1925) as Ambassador Wikked, and the Laurel and Hardy short *You're Darn Tootin'* (1928) as the bandleader. He also appeared in *Blonde Crazy* (1931).

Lederer was married to actress Gretchen Lederer, with whom he had a son. He died in Woodland Hills, California, in 1965 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Jazz Singer* (1927), Fi1m 65, as Moisha Yudelson — [page](https://film.one/film/the-jazz-singer.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Bride of Frankenstein* (1935), Fi1m 89, Makeup Trainee, Assistant Makeup Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/bride-of-frankenstein.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Laurel & Hardy: Year Two* (2024), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Whispering City* (1947), Makeup Artist
- *Tower of London* (1939), Makeup Artist
- *Dracula's Daughter* (1936), Makeup Artist
- *The Invisible Ray* (1936), Makeup Artist
- *East of Java* (1935), Makeup Artist
- *The Raven* (1935), Makeup Artist
- *Bride of Frankenstein* (1935), Assistant Makeup Artist, Makeup Trainee — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/bride-of-frankenstein.md)
- *The Mystery of Edwin Drood* (1935), Makeup Artist
- *Great Expectations* (1934), Assistant Makeup Artist
- *Forgotten* (1933), as Uncle Adolph
- *Blonde Crazy* (1931), as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
- *The Delicatessen Kid* (1929), as The Kid's Father
- *Smiling Irish Eyes* (1929), as Izzy Levi
- *From Headquarters* (1929), as Bugs McGuire
- *One Stolen Night* (1929), as Abou-Ibu-Adam
- *Celebrity* (1928), as Cyclone's Manager
- *You're Darn Tootin'* (1928), as Bandleader
- *Sailor Izzy Murphy* (1927), as Jake
- *The Jazz Singer* (1927), as Moisha Yudelson — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-jazz-singer.md)
- *The King of Kings* (1927), as Eber - a Pharisee
- *The Shamrock and the Rose* (1927), as Rabbi Isaacs
- *The Trunk Mystery* (1926), as Stevanov
- *The Cruise of the Jasper B* (1926), as Auctioneer
- *Sweet Rosie O'Grady* (1926), as Friend
- *Borrowed Finery* (1925), as Heimedinger
- *The Cloudhopper* (1925), as The Alaskan Count
- *The Wizard of Oz* (1925), as Ambassador Wikked
- *Worldly Goods* (1924), as Sol Shipik
- *Poison* (1924), as Gale Preston
- *A Fighting Heart* (1924), as Dr. Logan
- *Fight and Win* (1924), Actor
- *Behind Two Guns* (1924), as Olaf Ludovic - aka Dr. Betz
- *The Sword of Valor* (1924), Actor
- *Virginian Outcast* (1924), as Colonel Webster
- *Black Oxen* (1923), as Austrian Advisor
- *Your Friend and Mine* (1923), as Andrea Mertens
- *Hungry Hearts* (1922), as Gedalyah Mindel
- *Forget Me Not* (1922), as Rodolfo · The Musician
- *White Eagle* (1922), as Gray Wolf
- *The Struggle* (1921), Director
- *The Avenging Arrow* (1921), Actor
- *The Dragon's Net* (1920), as King Carson
- *Over the Garden Wall* (1919), as James Barstow
- *The Little Boss* (1919), as Red O'Rourke
- *The Enchanted Barn* (1919), Actor
- *Man of Might* (1919), as Juan Diaz
- *The Washerwoman's War* (1919), Director
- *The Woman in the Web* (1918), as Col. Bormsk
- *Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers* (1918), as Ed Wetherford
- *The Wild Strain* (1918), as John Calvin Hollywood
- *The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop* (1917), as Crawling Elk
- *Aladdin from Broadway* (1917), as Amad
- *Through the Wall* (1916), as John Harding
- *What Did He Whisper?* (1915), Actor
- *Captain Alvarez* (1914), as Don Arana - the Foreign Minister
- *Anne of the Golden Heart* (1914), as Larkin

## Gallery

- ![Otto Lederer](https://film.one/media/person/300434/gallery-0a86c65df1c0.jpg) Otto Lederer — Image via TMDB
- ![Otto Lederer](https://film.one/media/person/300434/gallery-1fd2291d7a78.jpg) Otto Lederer — Image via TMDB

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