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Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing fatherly figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), as Judy Garland’s father, and in Little Women (1949).
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Leon Ames Biography / Wiki
| Name | Leon Ames |
| Also Know | Leon Waycoff, Harry Leon Wycoff |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Portland, Indiana, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1902-01-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
| Deathday | 1993-10-12 |
Leon Ames Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| East Side Kids | Pat O’Day | 1940-02-10 | After living all his chilhood in the street, a young boy notices rapidly that crime doesn’t pay and that´s why he decides to become a policeman. One … |
| Forgotten | Louie Strauss | 1933-02-14 | Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son’s home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws’ objec… |
| Brother of the Wind | 1973-01-31 | A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild…. | |
| Engagement Party | Elliott Winston | 1956-01-01 | Fresh from “business college” a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about “S & H Green Stamps.”… |
| The Amazing Mr. Nordill | Everett Nordill aka Everton | 1947-08-30 | This John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cle… |
| Panama Patrol | Maj. Phillip Waring | 1939-03-20 | A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal…. |
| No Greater Sin | Dr. Edward Cavanaugh | 1941-08-29 | The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commis… |
| Cipher Bureau | Maj. Philip Waring | 1938-10-25 | The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent…. |
| Fall Guy | Floyd Parkson | 1945-04-14 | Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series…. |
| Song of Revolt | Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle | 1937-05-29 | This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France’s national anthem, “La Marseillaise”, came to be written during the French Revolution…. |
| Timber Tramps | Deacon | 1975-12-31 | A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working…. |
| Toklat | Old Man | 1971-01-01 | A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from res… |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Pierre Dupin | 1932-02-21 | In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets fail… |
| Soak the Poor | Special Investigator Stanton | 1937-08-21 | This entry in MGM’s “Crime Does Not Pay” series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices … |
| The Great Morgan | K. F. | 1945-01-01 | Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelate… |
| Claws | Ben Jones, Forest Commissioner | 1977-01-01 | “Claws!’ is about a grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters one year. From then on, the bear goes on a killing spree in the woods, trying to take… |
| Alimony Madness | John Thurman | 1933-03-31 | A man’s wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife…. |
| Stowaway | Tommy | 1932-03-01 | On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and bei… |
| The Misadventures of Merlin Jones | Judge Holmsby / Lex Fortas | 1964-03-25 | Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments lan… |
| By the Light of the Silvery Moon | George Winfield | 1953-03-26 | Marjorie Winfield’s engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and trib… |
| Rescue Squad | Lester Vaughn (as Leon Waycoff) | 1935-05-15 | An independently wealthy collector of objets d’art tries to influence an artist’s model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian… |
| The Meal | Kroger | 1975-10-01 | A rich Florida woman (Dina Merrill) invites big shots to a banquet, then watches with a friend (Carl Betz) as they destroy one another…. |
| The Big Hangover | Carl Bellcap | 1950-05-26 | A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol…. |
| The Monkey’s Uncle | Judge Holmsby | 1965-08-18 | College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ul… |
| The Marshal Of Mesa City | Sheriff Jud Cronin | 1939-11-03 | A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption…. |
| Uptown New York | Max Silver (as Leon Waycoff) | 1932-11-27 | Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a… |
| Ship of Wanted Men | John Holden | 1933-09-08 | A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth… |
| Mutiny Ahead | McMurtrie | 1935-03-01 | A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure…. |
| On Moonlight Bay | George Winfield | 1951-07-26 | The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across… |
| The Iron Major | Robert ‘Bob’ Stewart | 1943-10-31 | Pat O’Brien in the role of William ‘Frank’ Cavanaugh, a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war h… |
| Merton of the Movies | Lawrence Rupert | 1947-10-11 | In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert… |
| The Happy Years | Sr. Samuel H. Stover | 1950-07-07 | Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink “Dink” Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whos… |
| Cattle Drive | Chester Graham, Sr. | 1951-08-01 | The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and t… |
| Let’s Do It Again | Chet Stuart | 1953-06-16 | Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The … |
| Undercover Maisie | Amor/Willis Farnes | 1947-03-01 | Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to… |
| Get That Man | Don Clayton / McDonald | 1935-07-10 | Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it’s discovered that he’s the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune…. |
| Watch the Birdie | Grantland D. Farns | 1950-12-11 | A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks…. |
| Risky Business | Hinge Jackson | 1939-03-03 | Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped…. |
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Adjutant | 1939-10-24 | Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines…. |
| Come On, Leathernecks! | Otto Wagner / Baroni | 1938-08-08 | The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines…. |
| Secrets of a Nurse | Joe Largo | 1938-12-02 | This Universal programmer was based on a Collier’s Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in… |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | Mr. Alonzo Smith | 1944-11-28 | In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move… |
| Lady in the Lake | Derace Kingsby | 1946-12-19 | Private detective Philip Marlowe is asked by a publishing executive, Adrienne Fromsett, to locate the wife of her boss, publisher Derace Kingsby. Earl… |
| Angel Face | Fred Barrett | 1953-01-02 | An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side…. |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Kyle Sackett | 1946-05-02 | A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband…. |
| Dial 1119 | Earl | 1950-11-03 | A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage…. |
| The Velvet Touch | Gordon Dunning | 1948-07-13 | After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt…. |
| Mysterious Mr. Moto | Paul Brissac | 1938-09-17 | The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard…. |
| Scene of the Crime | Capt. A.C. Forster | 1949-07-28 | A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman… that may have been involved in crooked activities…. |
| Pilot X | Carl Goering | 1936-12-01 | Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big “X” painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark … |
| The Absent-Minded Professor | President Rufus Daggett | 1961-03-16 | Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or “Flubber”, an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har… |
| Mr. Moto in Danger Island | Commissioner Madero | 1939-04-07 | In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world’s jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find th… |
| Sabre Jet | Lt. Col. Eckert | 1953-09-04 | The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner read… |
| Alias a Gentleman | Matt Enley | 1948-02-03 | Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters…. |
| Jake Speed | Pop Winston | 1986-05-30 | Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves live… |
| The Skipper Surprised His Wife | Dr. Philip Abbott | 1950-06-29 | A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship…. |
| Calling All Marines | Murdock | 1939-09-20 | Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy’s brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox…. |
| The Spy Ring | Frank Denton | 1938-01-08 | Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the… |
| Hammersmith Is Out | General Sam Pembroke | 1972-05-12 | The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient off… |
| Yolanda and the Thief | Mr. Candle | 1945-11-22 | Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to he… |
| Ambush | Maj. C.E. Breverly | 1950-01-13 | A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches…. |
| Code of the Streets | ‘Chick’ Foster | 1939-04-13 | Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Be… |
| Son of Lassie | Anton | 1945-04-20 | Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 – has he inherited his mothers famous courage?… |
| That’s My Boy | Al Williams | 1932-11-13 | Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders a… |
| Song of the Thin Man | Mitchell Talbin | 1947-08-28 | Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club…. |
| On an Island with You | Commander Harrison | 1948-05-03 | A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done… |
| Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring | John Stack | 1941-11-18 | Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia’s Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, E… |
| Crisis | Sam Proctor | 1950-07-07 | An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he’s forced to operate on a South American dictator…. |
| Crime Doctor | William Wheeler | 1943-06-22 | Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country’s leading criminal… |
| Island in the Sky | Marty Butler | 1938-04-01 | A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney’s office…. |
| Strangers All | Frank Walker | 1935-04-01 | Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children…. |
| The Man Who Dared | Yosef Novak | 1933-06-30 | An “imaginative biography” of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Fra… |
| No Leave, No Love | Colonel Elliott | 1946-03-10 | A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he fal… |
| The Show-Off | Frank Harlin | 1946-12-01 | Red Skelton stars in this adaptation of the George Kelly play…. |
| I Was a Convict | Jackson | 1939-03-06 | In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they a… |
| 45 Fathers | Vincent | 1937-11-26 | An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can…. |
| Sherlock Holmes in New York | Daniel Furman | 1976-10-18 | An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old ne… |
| The Thin Man Goes Home | Edgar Draque | 1944-12-24 | On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation…. |
| They Were Expendable | Major James Morton | 1945-12-07 | Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title … |
| The Cockeyed Miracle | Ralph Humphrey | 1946-10-26 | A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter…. |
| Parachute Jumper | Pilot with Alabama (uncredited) | 1933-01-28 | An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob…. |
| I’ll Tell the World | Spud Marshall | 1934-04-20 | Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal’s I’ll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, new… |
| Legion of Lost Flyers | Smythe | 1939-11-02 | A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by “Loop” Gillian, running charter-fli… |
| Testament | Henry Abhart | 1983-11-04 | It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has bee… |
| Fugitive at Large | Carter | 1939-12-07 | George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because … |
| Charlie Chan on Broadway | Buzz Moran | 1937-09-22 | Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insur… |
| Week-End at the Waldorf | Henry Burton | 1945-10-04 | Anything can happen during a weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for … |
| A Date with Judy | Lucien T. Pringle | 1948-07-29 | Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy’s relationship w… |
| International Settlement | Monte Silver | 1938-02-04 | In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio)…. |
| Dangerously Yours | Phil | 1937-09-21 | A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one… |
| Quick Millions | Hood | 1931-04-17 | A truck driver “too lazy to work and too nervous to steal” gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill… |
| Son of Flubber | Rufus Daggett | 1963-01-16 | Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance “Flubber.” Now he hope… |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Lieut. Jurika | 1944-11-15 | In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap… |
| Battleground | The Chaplain | 1949-11-09 | The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men o… |
| Just You and Me, Kid | Manduke the Magnificent | 1979-07-13 | George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers…. |
| From the Terrace | Samuel Eaton | 1960-07-15 | Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York’s financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his ca… |
| Little Women | Father March | 1949-03-10 | Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil … |
| Any Number Can Play | Dr. Palmer | 1949-07-15 | When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds i… |
| Now I’ll Tell | Max | 1934-06-07 | A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by whic… |
| Murder in Greenwich Village | Rodney Hunter | 1937-11-03 | A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a … |
| A Successful Calamity | Barney Davis | 1932-09-17 | Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy ‘Sweetie’ Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy an… |
| Peyton Place | Leslie Harrington | 1957-12-13 | In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion — which re… |
| Anchors Aweigh | Admiral’s Aide | 1945-08-13 | Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl … |
| Suez | Napoleon III – Emperor of France | 1938-10-28 | Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal…. |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox | 1970-01-26 | In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! … |
| Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife | Ex-Chauffeur (uncredited) | 1938-03-25 | American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn’t want to be only a… |
| Thunder Afloat | Recruiting Officer (uncredited) | 1939-09-15 | A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I…. |
| George Washington Slept Here | Leon Ames (uncredited) | 1942-10-30 | New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy… |
| Walking Down Broadway | Frank Gatty | 1938-03-11 | Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ… |
| Between Two Women | Masters | 1945-03-28 | A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital…. |
| The Famous Ferguson Case | Judd Brooks | 1932-04-19 | A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft… |
| Blackwell’s Island | Ballinger (uncredited) | 1939-01-24 | A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster…. |
| The Best Place to Be | William Callahan | 1979-05-27 | A widow’s life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an affair she is having with a much younger man…. |
| Peggy Sue Got Married | Barney Alvorg | 1986-10-10 | Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school…. |
| Reckless | Ralph Watson | 1935-04-19 | A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire…. |
| Only Yesterday | Lee (Uncredited) | 1933-11-01 | On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h… |
| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Burt Clews | 1970-06-17 | Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities…. |
| That’s Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-06-21 | Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio’s 50 year history…. |
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