Acting

Lee Frederick

Born 1912-06-02 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Lee Frederick (June 2, 1912 – June 6, 1993) also credited as Robert Peyton) was an American film actor active during the 1950s. He played the lead character of an intelligence officer in the 1951 espionage thriller Tokyo File 212 opposite Florence Marly. Critic Robert J. Lentz called his performance "solid".

Acting credits

It's a Wonderful Life poster
8.3

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

The Sun Sets at Dawn poster
6.4

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

The Sun Sets at Dawn

1950

Red Snow poster
5.7

An Eskimo Army Sergeant is sent to his Arctic tribal village to gather information about a mysterious unmarked black airplane which shadows military planes in northern Alaska and equally-mysterious flashings lighting up the sky from Siberia across the Bering Strait. He soon discovers Soviet espionage at work. Along the way he must also deal with an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue, a fight with a polar bear and marriage to his fiancee.

Red Snow

1952

Born to Kill poster
6.7

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Born to Kill

1947

They Won't Believe Me poster
6.5

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

They Won't Believe Me

1947

Suburbia poster
6.7

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.

Suburbia

1984

Nocturne poster
5.9

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

Nocturne

1946

Desperate poster
6.5

An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

Desperate

1947

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball poster
5.5

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

1946

The Devil Thumbs a Ride poster
6.6

Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

1947

Tokyo File 212 poster
5.1

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.

Tokyo File 212

1951

Daredevils of the Red Circle poster
4.8

Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.

Daredevils of the Red Circle

1939

Border Treasure poster
6.5

Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.

Border Treasure

1950

I'll Take Milk poster
6.5

Rita informs Leon that, as a lark, he stole a valuable necklace at a dinner party the night before and she will return it, but Leon remembers nothing about it. Just then, as Leon is taking the necklace out of his pocket, Mrs. Errol arrives with Barbara, her cousin and Barbara's fiancee. Mrs. Errol decides to give the necklace to Barbara as a wedding present. Leon tells Rita he will retrieve the necklace and return it to her that night. That Leon ends up getting chased by a guard dog and accused by Dorothy of philandering and Rita is a crook is a foregone conclusion.

I'll Take Milk

1946