1. Frederick Stafford was a Czechoslovak-born actor.
19 Facts About Frederick Stafford
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Frederick Stafford was the son of a Slovak factory owner.
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Frederick Stafford was worried about the Russians taking over Czechoslovakia and in 1948 decided to leave.
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Frederick Stafford became a taxi driver, a lumberjack and a businessman.
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Frederick Stafford travelled for them in the Middle East and Far East.
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Frederick Stafford said he wanted me to star in his films.
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Frederick Stafford played a starring role in his first film, replacing Kerwin Mathews as an agent code-named OSS 117 in OSS 117 Mission for a Killer with Mylene Demongeot.
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Frederick Stafford made a macaroni combat war film in Italy, Dirty Heroes with John Ireland.
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Frederick Stafford followed it with Estouffade a la Caraibe, and L'Homme qui valait des milliards.
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Frederick Stafford made two more Italian war films, The Battle of El Alamein with Michael Rennie.
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Frederick Stafford's contractor was played by the American John Forsythe.
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Frederick Stafford made Eagles Over London with Van Johnson.
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In March 1970 Frederick Stafford claimed that Harry Saltzman wanted him to play James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service but he was unable to accept due to his commitment to make Topaz.
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Frederick Stafford made a comeback in 1972 as Commissario Luca Micelli in the Italian giallo Shadows Unseen.
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In that movie, Frederick Stafford's character has a brief platonic romance with Jade's character despite a 20-year age difference.
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Frederick Stafford announced he intended to make four films in Australia including one about the pyjama girl murder; Our Man in Sydney, a detective thriller, and Andamooka, about life on the Australian opal fields.
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Frederick Stafford married German actress Marianne Hold whom he met whilst both of them were in Bangkok.
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Frederick Stafford's son is the singer Roderick Stafford, who was born in 1964.
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Frederick Stafford died in 1979 in a collision of two aircraft above Lake Sarnen, Switzerland.