Leon Ames

Born: 1902-01-20

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Ames licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Placeholder

Little Women

as Father March
Released: 1949-03-10

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass...

Movie page

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Frank Knox
Released: 1970-01-26

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...

Movie page

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Alonzo Smith
Released: 1944-11-28

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to...

Movie page

The Postman Always Rings Twice

as Kyle Sackett
Released: 1946-05-02

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Movie page

The Absent-Minded Professor

as Rufus Daggett
Released: 1961-03-16

Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible...

Movie page

Peggy Sue Got Married

as Barney Alvorg
Released: 1986-10-10

Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past,...

Movie page

Anchors Aweigh

as Admiral's Aide
Released: 1945-08-13

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the...

Movie page

They Were Expendable

as Major James Morton
Released: 1945-12-07

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in...

Movie page

Battleground

as The Chaplain
Released: 1949-11-09

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the...

Movie page

Testament

as Henry Abhart
Released: 1983-11-04

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly,...

Movie page

Angel Face

as Fred Barrett
Released: 1953-01-02

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane...

Movie page

Murders in the Rue Morgue

as Pierre Dupin
Released: 1932-01-27

In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an...

Movie page

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

as Lieut. Jurika
Released: 1944-11-15

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a...

Movie page

Song of the Thin Man

as Mitchell Talbin
Released: 1947-08-28

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Movie page

Peyton Place

as Leslie Harrington
Released: 1957-12-13

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance...

Movie page

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

as Ex-Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-25

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a...

Movie page

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1974-06-21

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50...

Movie page

On Moonlight Bay

as George Winfield
Released: 1951-07-26

The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield...

Movie page

Son of Flubber

as Rufus Daggett
Released: 1963-01-16

Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery...

Movie page

Crisis

as Sam Proctor
Released: 1950-07-07

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a...

Movie page

The Thin Man Goes Home

as Edgar Draque
Released: 1944-12-24

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Movie page

Lady in the Lake

as Derace Kingsby
Released: 1946-12-19

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But...

Movie page

Let's Do It Again

as Chet Stuart
Released: 1953-06-16

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her...

Movie page

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

as Burt Clews
Released: 1970-06-17

Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her...

Movie page

From the Terrace

as Samuel Eaton
Released: 1960-07-15

Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as...

Movie page

Sherlock Holmes in New York

as Daniel Furman
Released: 1976-10-18

An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes...

Movie page

Son of Lassie

as Anton
Released: 1945-04-20

Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his...

Movie page

Just You and Me, Kid

as Manduke the Magnificent
Released: 1979-07-13

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old...

Movie page

The Velvet Touch

as Gordon Dunning
Released: 1948-07-13

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Movie page

Reckless

as Ralph Watson
Released: 1935-04-19

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Movie page

George Washington Slept Here

as Leon Ames (uncredited)
Released: 1942-10-30

New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge,...

Movie page

Hammersmith Is Out

as General Sam Pembroke
Released: 1972-05-12

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run...

Movie page

Scene of the Crime

as Capt. A.C. Forster
Released: 1949-07-28

A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked...

Movie page

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

as George Winfield
Released: 1953-03-26

Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World...

Movie page

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

as Judge Holmsby / Lex Fortas
Released: 1964-03-25

Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and...

Movie page

Yolanda and the Thief

as Mr. Candle
Released: 1945-11-22

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria....

Movie page

Charlie Chan on Broadway

as Buzz Moran
Released: 1937-09-22

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a...

Movie page

Secrets of a Nurse

as Joe Largo
Released: 1938-12-02

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin...

Movie page

Any Number Can Play

as Dr. Palmer
Released: 1949-07-15

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to...

Movie page

The Monkey's Uncle

as Judge Holmsby
Released: 1965-08-18

College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a...

Movie page

The Famous Ferguson Case

as Judd Brooks
Released: 1932-04-19

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...

Movie page

It's a Big Country

as Secret Service Man
Released: 1951-11-20

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American...

Movie page

Suez

as Napoleon III - Emperor of France
Released: 1938-10-28

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez,...

Movie page

A Date with Judy

as Lucien T. Pringle
Released: 1948-07-29

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school...

Movie page

Mysterious Mr. Moto

as Paul Brissac
Released: 1938-09-17

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

Movie page

Dangerously Yours

as Phil
Released: 1937-09-21

A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New...

Movie page

Parachute Jumper

as Pilot with Alabama (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-28

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the...

Movie page

Jake Speed

as Pop Winston
Released: 1986-05-30

Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the...

Movie page

On an Island with You

as Commander Harrison
Released: 1948-05-03

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being...

Movie page

Dial 1119

as Earl
Released: 1950-11-03

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose...

Movie page

Ambush

as Maj. C.E. Breverly
Released: 1950-01-13

A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

Movie page

Come On, Leathernecks!

as Otto Wagner / Baroni
Released: 1938-08-08

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and...

Movie page

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1973-01-01

Movie page

Quick Millions

as Hood
Released: 1931-04-17

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering....

Movie page

The Happy Years

as Sr. Samuel H. Stover
Released: 1950-07-07

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a...

Movie page

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

as John Stack
Released: 1941-11-18

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates...

Movie page

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

as Commissioner Madero
Released: 1939-04-07

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel...

Movie page

International Settlement

as Monte Silver
Released: 1938-02-04

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun...

Movie page

Crime Doctor

as William Wheeler
Released: 1943-06-22

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to ...

Movie page

Blackwell's Island

as Ballinger (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-24

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Movie page

Only Yesterday

as Lee (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-01

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....

Movie page

Merton of the Movies

as Lawrence Rupert
Released: 1947-10-11

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth...

Movie page

Week-End at the Waldorf

as Henry Burton
Released: 1945-10-04

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets...

Movie page

Stowaway

as Tommy
Released: 1932-03-01

On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the...

Movie page

No Leave, No Love

as Colonel Elliott
Released: 1946-03-10

A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover...

Movie page

Between Two Women

as Masters
Released: 1945-03-28

A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.

Movie page

Now I'll Tell

as Max (as Leon Waycoff)
Released: 1934-06-07

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his...

Movie page

Claws

as Ben Jones, Forest Commissioner
Released: 1977-01-01

A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods,...

Movie page

The Great Morgan

as K. F.
Released: 1945-01-01

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does...

Movie page

Pilot X

as Carl Goering
Released: 1936-12-01

Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The...

Movie page

I'll Tell the World

as Spud Marshall
Released: 1934-04-20

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the...

Movie page

Thunder Afloat

as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-15

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Movie page

Cattle Drive

as Chester Graham, Sr.
Released: 1951-08-01

The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of...

Movie page

Alias a Gentleman

as Matt Enley
Released: 1948-02-03

Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.

Movie page

A Successful Calamity

as Barney Davis
Released: 1932-09-17

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie'...

Movie page

The Man Who Dared

as Yosef Novak
Released: 1933-06-30

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire...

Movie page

That's My Boy

as Al Williams
Released: 1932-11-13

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern...

Movie page

Code of the Streets

as 'Chick' Foster
Released: 1939-04-13

Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and...

Movie page

Walking Down Broadway

as Frank Gatty
Released: 1938-03-11

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...

Movie page

Legion of Lost Flyers

as Smythe
Released: 1939-11-02

A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of...

Movie page

Sabre Jet

as Lt. Col. Eckert
Released: 1953-09-04

The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of...

Movie page

Undercover Maisie

as Amor/Willis Farnes
Released: 1947-03-01

Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department...

Movie page

Uptown New York

as Max Silver (as Leon Waycoff)
Released: 1932-11-27

Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey)...

Movie page

East Side Kids

as Pat O'Day
Released: 1940-02-10

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't...

Movie page

Murder in Greenwich Village

as Rodney Hunter
Released: 1937-11-03

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In...

Movie page

The Best Place to Be

as William Callahan
Released: 1979-05-27

A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an...

Movie page

Soak the Poor

as Special Investigator Stanton
Released: 1937-08-21

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers...

Movie page

No Greater Sin

as Dr. Edward Cavanaugh
Released: 1941-08-29

The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the...

Movie page

Panama Patrol

as Maj. Phillip Waring
Released: 1939-03-20

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

Movie page

The Marshal Of Mesa City

as Sheriff Jud Cronin
Released: 1939-11-03

A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

Movie page

Brother of the Wind

as uncredited
Released: 1973-01-31

A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.

Movie page

Risky Business

as Hinge Jackson
Released: 1939-03-03

Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has...

Movie page

Timber Tramps

as Deacon
Released: 1975-12-31

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

Movie page

Pack Up Your Troubles

as Adjutant
Released: 1939-10-24

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

Movie page

Calling All Marines

as Murdock
Released: 1939-09-20

Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they...

Movie page

The Skipper Surprised His Wife

as Dr. Philip Abbott
Released: 1950-06-29

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

Movie page

Forgotten

as Louie Strauss
Released: 1933-02-14

Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and...

Movie page

The Spy Ring

as Frank Denton
Released: 1938-01-08

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare,...

Movie page

Ship of Wanted Men

as John Holden
Released: 1933-09-08

A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition...

Movie page

The Big Hangover

as Carl Bellcap
Released: 1950-05-26

A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is...

Movie page

Island in the Sky

as Marty Butler
Released: 1938-04-01

A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district...

Movie page

Strangers All

as Frank Walker
Released: 1935-04-01

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Movie page

The Iron Major

as Robert 'Bob' Stewart
Released: 1943-10-31

William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he...

Movie page

Cipher Bureau

as Maj. Philip Waring
Released: 1938-10-25

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a...

Movie page

Help Wanted

as J.T. Evans-Labor Commissioner
Released: 1939-06-10

A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket

Movie page

Rescue Squad

as Lester Vaughn (as Leon Waycoff)
Released: 1935-05-15

An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away...

Movie page

Fugitive at Large

as Carter
Released: 1939-12-07

George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio...

Movie page

45 Fathers

as Vincent
Released: 1937-11-26

An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them....

Movie page

The Cockeyed Miracle

as Ralph Humphrey
Released: 1946-10-26

A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their...

Movie page

Get That Man

as Don Clayton / McDonald
Released: 1935-07-10

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the...

Movie page

The Show-Off

as Frank Harlin
Released: 1946-12-01

Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.

Movie page

Watch the Birdie

as Grantland D. Farns
Released: 1950-12-11

A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.

Movie page

Alimony Madness

as John Thurman
Released: 1933-03-31

A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.

Movie page

Mutiny Ahead

as McMurtrie
Released: 1935-03-01

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.

Movie page

Fall Guy

as Floyd Parkson
Released: 1945-04-14

Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.

Movie page

Song of Revolt

as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Released: 1937-05-29

This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La...

Movie page

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Colonel Foxhall
First aired: 1962-09-26

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells...

TV Show page

Bewitched

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-17

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine...

TV Show page

The Andy Griffith Show

as Mr. Hampton
First aired: 1960-10-03

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...

TV Show page

The Virginian

as Judge Fitzroy
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

TV Show page

My Three Sons

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-29

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his...

TV Show page

Emergency!

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

TV Show page

The Lucy Show

as Colonel Anderson
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's...

TV Show page

The Name of the Game

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-20

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...

TV Show page

Studio One

as Cyrus Walker
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

TV Show page

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

as Messenger
First aired: 1977-01-30

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC....

TV Show page

The Jeffersons

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-01-18

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as...

TV Show page

Mister Ed

as Gordon Kirkwood
First aired: 1961-01-05

Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his...

TV Show page

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Damon Carlisle
First aired: 1960-09-19

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...

TV Show page

Panic!

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-03-05

TV Show page

ABC Stage 67

as Gray
First aired: 1966-09-14

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety...

TV Show page

The Wonderful World of Disney

as President Rufus Daggett (archive footage)
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

TV Show page

General Electric Theater

as Dr. Butolph
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

TV Show page

General Electric Theater

as Malcolm Fownes
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

TV Show page