Leo Ditrichstein

Leo Ditrichstein (January 6, 1865 – June 28, 1928) was an Austrian-American actor and playwright.

Career He made his New York début in Die Ehre (1890). This was followed by Mr. Wilkinson's Widows, Trilby, Are You a Mason? and other plays. He was featured in Right is Might by Pedro Calderon de la Barca at the Lyric Theatre in Philadelphia in 1923. He was the author of numerous plays, among which are: Gossip (with Clyde Fitch, 1895); A Southern Romance (1897); The Last Appeal (1901); What's the Matter with Susan? (1904); The Ambitious Mrs. Susan (1907); The Million (from the French, 1911); The Concert (1910); The Temperamental Journey (1913); The Great Lover (1915); The Judge of Zalmea (1917). Ditrichstein appeared in one motion picture, in a cameo as himself, in How Molly Made Good (1915).

He died on June 28, 1928, from heart disease at the Auersperg Sanitarium in Vienna.