Leon Alton
Leon Alton enjoyed a career on stage, screen, and television starting in the 1920s and lasting until the late 1970s. In the 1930s he started out on the Broadway stage appearing in various musicals which lasted until the early 1940s. Then like many Broadway actors and dancers, he seemingly drifted his way to Hollywood where he was able to use his talents as a dancer to appear in many party scenes in a suit dancing in some of the most well known films. Like many dancers though, that was only part of their work as they could not survive on musicals alone and by the mid 1950s musicals started to lose their popularity so he had to find work elsewhere He was never unemployed long. Alton's appearance was ideal for bankers, or distinguished townsman, or whatever was needed. By the late 1950s, he was able to secure some roles in which he received screen credit in shows like Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, and Lock-Up all while still appearing at the usual party scenes or the social gatherings. By the 1960s his career was still going strong as he still found work in the usual places and managed to appear in several well known movies like True Grit, The Cheyenne Social Club, and Airport and appearing in most of the well known television shows of the time. His career wound down by the 1970s and while his name won't garner the attention or recognition to film audiences of today, most casting directors could tell you it was a name that should be respected and could be depended on.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Soldier at Portobello Road (uncredited)Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Official (uncredited)In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
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Marnie
as Party Guest (uncredited)Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her...
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True Grit
as Boarding House Guest (uncredited)The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves...
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The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of...
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Funny Girl
as Audience Member (uncredited)The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New...
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Yours, Mine and Ours
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come...
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The Cincinnati Kid
as Poker Game Spectator (uncredited)An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time...
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
as Collingsgood Associate (uncredited)Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a...
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
as Fight Spectator (uncredited)The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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Inherit the Wind
as Townsman (uncredited)Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution....
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Blackbeard's Ghost
as Auction GuestThe eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The...
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Ship of Fools
as Ship Passenger (uncredited)Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in...
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A Star Is Born
as Usher (uncredited)A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own...
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Days of Wine and Roses
as Party Guest (uncredited)An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically...
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Cimarron
as Townsman at Celebration (uncredited)The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Babes in Toyland
as Villager (uncredited)All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their...
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Hellfighters
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who...
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The Killer Is Loose
as Bank Robber (uncredited)A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as...
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Bell, Book and Candle
as Club Patron (uncredited)A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her...
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What a Way to Go!
as Awards Ceremony Guest (uncredited)A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly...
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Party Girl
as Police Officer (uncredited)Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he...
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The Last Hurrah
as Banquet Guest (uncredited)In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield,...
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Our Man Flint
as Military Officer at Meeting (uncredited)When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the...
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Advise & Consent
as Senator (uncredited)Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert...
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The Tingler
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans...
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Star!
as Party Guest (uncredited)Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
as Officer at Fleet Admiral's Meeting (uncredited)Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a...
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Period of Adjustment
as Visitor at Station (uncredited)A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
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Caught
as Cafe Customer (uncredited)Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is...
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Warning Shot
as uncreditedHounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
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Divorce American Style
as Bank OfficerAfter 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new...
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Illegal
as Court Clerk (uncredited)A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to...
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The Wheeler Dealers
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a...
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Sweet Charity
as Dancer (uncredited)Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless...
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Watermelon Man
as Pedestrian (uncredited)A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But his bigoted world of...
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Do Not Disturb
as Party Guest (uncredited)American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she...
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The Love God?
as Club Patron (uncredited)Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan...
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Hollywood or Bust
as Casino PatronThe last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood....
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The Notorious Landlady
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman...
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Who Was That Lady?
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding,...
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Dangerous When Wet
as Spectator at Photoshoot (uncredited)The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One...
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Take Her, She's Mine
as Man at Airport (uncredited)After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris...
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Alias Nick Beal
as SupporterAfter straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his...
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Three for the Show
as Bit Role (uncredited)This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer...
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Cry Danger
as uncreditedAfter serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still...
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Les Miserables
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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Phffft
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves...
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Knock on Wood
as BellhopVentriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the...
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The Best Man
as Russell Supporter (uncredited)The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has...
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Go Naked in the World
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a...
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Sirocco
as Soldier (uncredited)A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Holiday for Lovers
as Party guestClifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an...
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Tender Is the Night
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful...
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The Swan
as Ball AttendeePrincess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter,...
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New York Confidential
as uncreditedStory follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who...
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Desperate
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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Critic's Choice
as Audience Member (uncredited)Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be...
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The Iroquois Trail
as uncreditedAn American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the...
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Kisses for My President
as Burlesque Show Spectator (uncredited)A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
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Small Town Girl
as TownsmanRick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for...
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Brainstorm
as Spectator (uncredited)Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
as Bartender (uncredited)Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
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The Juggler
as Bus Driver (uncredited)A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
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The Iron Mistress
as Riverboat PassengerIn this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her...
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Destination Murder
as Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman...
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The Young Stranger
as Peter Kalish (uncredited)The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the...
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Looking for Love
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
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Twilight of Honor
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a...
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College Holiday
as DancerCollege students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Columbo
as Theatre Patron (uncredited)Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...
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Perry Mason
as Court Stenographer (uncredited)The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Perry Mason
as Juror (uncredited)The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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The Twilight Zone
as Bartender (uncredited)A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...
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