An early newspaper account records him as starring in a play False Friend for A. M.

[3] He was long a leading man on the stage to Clara Morris, Rose Coghlan, Mrs. Fiske and Viola Allen.

De Belleville was apparently married and divorced several times.

[citation needed] An early wife Maude Stuart died in childbirth in 1886.

Their newborn son also called Frederic De Belleville did not survive infancy.