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Leo Ditrichstein was born on January 6, 1865 at Tamesvar, Hungary. He was the son of Sigismond Ladislav Ditrichstein, and of Bertha von Edtvos, whose father was the Hungarian novelist, Joseph von Edtvos. His parents had other aims for him, but he insisted upon becoming an actor.
Ditrichstein was educated in Vienna.
After several years’ service in the theatres of Vienna, where he had the advantage of training from Adolph Sonnenthal, and in Berlin and other Continental cities, including engagements in light opera, he came to the United States, and at once started upon the career in which he achieved distinction as an actor and as a maker of plays. His first appearance on, the American stage was made at the Amberg Theatre in New York, Mar. 12, 1890, with a company of German actors in a production of Sudermann’s play, Die Ehre. Not long afterward he had gained sufficient facility in the English language to appear in English-speaking parts, and he soon found himself in demand for the playing of important characters. His first part in English was in a popular farce of that period called Mr. Wilkinson’s Widows, one of William Gillette’s adaptations from the French. When the Trilby furore began in 1895, his foreign manner and vocal intonations made him the very actor for the eccentric Zou Zou in the stage version of George Du Maurier’s novel made by Paul M. Potter. Thereafter he was continuously active in the American theatre as a writer and adapter of plays, and as an actor. He did little original play-writing, but he had the clever knack, so common with many capable actors, of taking a foreign play and of making it over into other scenes and languages. He had a liking also for melodrama, and in 1920 he appeared in The Purple Mask, turning thereto from the intriguing and passionate lover in chase of the sophisticated woman to the fascinating hero who surmounts all dangers and wins his way by his valor to happiness and love. He had acted minor parts in Shakespeare’s plays during his youth in the European theatres, and during his final years on the stage he had an ambition to make Shakespearian productions and play leading rôles in them, but it was not fulfilled. In 1924, he announced his retirement from all stage work, and went abroad to live in Europe until his death at Auersperg, Jugoslavia.
Ditrichstein's active service as an actor covered nearly thirty- five years of appearance in plays by many others as well as his own. The Concert and The Phantom Rival, both from the German, The King, from the French, and The Great Lover, written in collaboration with Frederic and Fanny Hatton, are especially the plays that brought him deserved fame both as dramatist and actor.
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From the graceful youth of such parts as Zou Zou in Trilby the years changed Ditrichstein in physique to a heavier and more imposing type of stage character.
Ditrichstein married Josephine Wehrle in 1896.
