From archive (archive) Subject: Author Lists: Fritz Leiber From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM Date: 22 Nov 88 22:34:36 GMT That plucky young man with massive amounts of sf bibliographic information is back with another author list. Our special guest star this eveing is Fritz Leiber. [C] == Short Story Collection. [O] == Omnibus (a book that completely contains other books) (possibly nested). aka == Also known by this other title. Maybe one person reading this will find this moderately interesting. /John --------------------------------------------------------------------- Leiber, Fritz [Reuter] [,Jr.] [,Ph.B.] [U.S.A., 24/12/1910- ] The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Series: Swords and Deviltry [1970] [C] Swords Against Death [1970] [C] [contains "Two Sought Adventure"] Swords in the Mist [1968] [C] Swords against Wizardry [1968] [C] The Swords of Lankhmar [1968] Swords and Ice Magic [1977] [C] [contains "Rime Isle"] Two Sought Adventure [1957] [C] Rime Isle [1977] Night's Black Agents [1947] [C] Gather, Darkness! [1950] Conjure Wife [1953] [aka "Burn, Witch, Burn!"] The Green Millenium [1953] The Sinful Ones [1953] Destiny Times Three [1957] The Big Time [1961] The Silver Eggheads [1961] The Mind Spider and Other Stories [1961] [C] Shadows With Eyes [1962] [C] A Pail of Air [1964] [C] Ships to the Stars [1964] [C] The Wanderer [1964] Tarzan and the Valley of Gold [1966] The Night of The Wolf [1966] [C] The Secret Songs [1968] Night Monsters [1969] [C] A Spectre is Haunting Texas [1969] You're All Alone [1972] [C] [contains "The Sinful Ones"] The Best of Fritz Leiber [1974] [C] The Book of Fritz Leiber [1974] [C] The Second Book of Fritz Leiber [1975] [C] The Worlds of Fritz Leiber [1976] [C] Our Lady of Darkness [1977] Heroes and Horrors [1978] [C] The Change War [1978] [C] Ship of Shadows [1979] [C] The Ghost Sight [1984] [C] The Knight and Knave of Swords [1988] From archive (archive) Subject: Re: Fritz Leiber From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Canis Nervous Rex) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: 8 Jul 89 07:56:25 GMT In article <8875@venera.isi.edu>, rod@venera.isi.edu (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) writes... } We just watched "The Sea Hawk", 1940, Warner Bros., starring Errol } Flynn. What, you ask, does this have to do with SF? Well, the } role of the Spanish Inquisitor was played by Fritz Leiber. } Now, we know Fritz spent a great deal of time in L.A., Hollywood in } particular. Did he ever have a movie career? If so, what else was } he in? It seems a little unlikely that there were two Fritz Leibers } in Hollywood in roughly the same era, though of course it's possible. Of course it's possible. In fact, there was. The Fritz Leiber we all know and love is Fritz Leiber, *Junior*. Fritz Sr. was an actor by profession and, though mostly a stage actor, appeared in a number of films -- in fact, I believe that it was *him* that was in THE SEA HAWK. Fritz Jr. was a stage actor by inclination (and, before he began his writing career, was a drama teacher). His interest in the theater is obvious in many of his stories, especially his Hugo-winning novel THE BIG TIME, which reads just like it was meant to be a stage play. Fritz Jr. did appear in a couple of films, usually minor roles. One that I can list as definite is CAMILLE (1936), with Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Taylor, and directed by George Cukor. He also appeared in a really low-budget horror film circa 1970, the title of which escapes me at the moment. There's an amusing anecdote concerning this, too. At this year's Minicon, there was a panel on sf film turkeys, and one person in the audience nominated this particular film, claiming that it looked as if it was made by high school students. Two things this guy didn't know that the panelists -- who were in stitches at the time because *they* knew -- did were (1) that Fritz was in the film, and (2) that Fritz was sitting in the row in front of him. So, at the prompting of one of the panelists, Fritz stood up and said a few words about the film, including his mentioning that it *was* in fact made by high school kids, and some years later, they were given some money to expand it as a "B" movie filler. "I know you. You are Cherokee." "I'm an old fool. *You* are Cherokee." "No, I am lift attendant now. I get paycheck, I eat hotdog. I go up and down." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.dec.com!boyajian or asabet.dec.com ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM or asabet.DEC