- His son, future science-fiction writer Fritz Leiber Jr., appeared with him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).
- His son, SF writer Fritz Leiber Jr, wrote a funny (albeit confessional) story entitled "237 Talking Statues, etc.", inspired by his difficult relationship with his father, in which Francis LeGrand II is confronted by the statues and paintings of the title, all self-portraits of his father in various roles, with which he discusses his relationship with his father.
- Fritz Leiber, Sr., was the father of famed science fiction author, Fritz Leiber Jr. (who looked very much like his father).
- On stage from 1902. Said to have enacted more than a hundred different Shakespearean roles.
- In one of his first films, he played Mercutio in a silent version of Romeo and Juliet (1916).
- He played many of the great Shakespeare roles on stage, including "King Lear" and "Hamlet". His only appearance in a Shakespearean role in a talking picture was a brief moment as Horatio in the final scene of what is supposed to be a London stage production of "Hamlet", from the 1937 film "The Great Garrick".
- From 1929 to 1932, he directed and appeared with the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Company.
- Shakespearean stage actor; later a film player for three decades until his death.
- Father: Albrecht Leiber; Mother: Meta Klet.
- Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: A Tale of Two Cities (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Anthony Adverse (1936) and All This, and Heaven Too (1940).
- Became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in late 1935.
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