Leslie Fenton

Born: 1902-03-12

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leslie Fenton (12 March 1902 – 25 March 1978) was an English-born American actor and film director. He appeared in 62 films between 1923 and 1945. Fenton was born on 12 March 1902 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He moved to America with his mother, Elizabeth Carter, and his brothers when he was six years old. They sailed as steerage passengers on board the R.M.S. Celtic. As a teenager, Leslie worked as an office clerk. He moved to New York and began a career on the stage. His film career began later with Fox Studios. He also directed 19 films between 1938 and 1951. He married American actress Ann Dvorak in 1932. Dvorak (Anna May McKim) moved to Britain with Fenton while he served in the British armed forces during the Second World War. The union was childless and ended in divorce in 1945. Fenton died 25 March 1978 in Montecito, California, aged 76. Some sources, including IMDb, incorrectly cite Frank Fenton, the noted screenwriter and novelist, as his younger brother. Frank Fenton's parents were actually John Fenton and Eveline Edgington (married Liverpool, 1900), as evidenced by the ship's manifest for the RMS Caronia (page 0817, line 0008), aboard which Frank Fenton arrived in the US on 21 April 1906.


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The Public Enemy

as Samuel 'Nails' Nathan
Released: 1931-04-23

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum...

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Boys Town

as Dan Farrow
Released: 1938-09-08

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of...

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Lady Killer

as Duke
Released: 1933-12-09

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes...

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Murder at Midnight

as Walter Grayson
Released: 1931-09-01

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the...

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Air Mail

as Tony Dressel
Released: 1932-11-03

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather...

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What Price Glory

as Lt. Moore
Released: 1926-11-23

U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in...

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East of Java

as Captain Wong Bo
Released: 1935-12-01

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions...

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as Perrin
Released: 1932-04-19

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

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The First Kiss

as Carol Talbot
Released: 1928-08-17

The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a...

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Sworn Enemy

as Steve Sherman
Released: 1936-09-11

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

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The Hatchet Man

as Harry En Hai
Released: 1932-02-06

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

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The Last Performance

as Buffo
Released: 1929-10-13

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is...

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The Casino Murder Case

as Dr. Kane
Released: 1935-03-15

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes...

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Night Flight

as Jules' Radio Operator / Co-Pilot
Released: 1933-10-06

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

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Woman Trap

as Eddie Evans
Released: 1929-09-28

In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to...

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Lazybones

as Dick Ritchie
Released: 1925-11-06

Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl,...

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The Shamrock Handicap

as Neil Ross
Released: 1926-05-02

Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman...

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Marie Galante

as General Saki Tenoki
Released: 1934-10-25

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo...

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The Longest Night

as Carl Briggs
Released: 1936-10-02

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

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Star of Midnight

as Tim Winthrop
Released: 1935-04-19

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a...

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Broadway

as 'Scar' Edwards
Released: 1929-05-27

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and...

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

as Nick 'Nicky' Grant
Released: 1932-05-28

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a...

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F.P.1

as Capt. B.E. Droste
Released: 1933-04-02

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by...

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China Passage

as Anthony Durand
Released: 1937-03-12

Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to...

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Captain Kidd's Treasure

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1938-01-22

In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain...

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The Man Who Came Back

as Baron le Duc
Released: 1931-01-11

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his...

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Two in the Dark

as Stuart Eldredge
Released: 1936-01-10

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he...

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Men Without Names

as Monk
Released: 1935-06-29

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

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The Guilty Generation

as Joe Palmero
Released: 1931-11-19

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

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Soak the Poor

as Nick Garvey
Released: 1937-08-21

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

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Dynamite

as Young 'Vulture'
Released: 1929-12-13

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is...

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The Gateway of the Moon

as Jim Mortlake
Released: 1928-01-01

John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter...

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Chinatown Squad

as Su Quong
Released: 1935-05-31

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

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I Believed in You

as Russell Storm
Released: 1934-04-09

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in...

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The House of Secrets

as Barry Wilding
Released: 1936-10-28

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers...

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Stolen Harmony

as Joe Harris (uncredited)
Released: 1935-04-20

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray...

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Kick In

as Charlie
Released: 1931-05-22

Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's...

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The Man I Love

as Carlo Vesper
Released: 1929-05-25

Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen ...

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The Pagan Lady

as Gerald 'Gerry' Willis
Released: 1931-09-07

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders...

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The Office Scandal

as Andrew 'Andy' Corbin
Released: 1929-03-03

Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy...

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Thunder Below

as Webb
Released: 1932-06-17

Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored...

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The Showdown

as Kilgore Shelton
Released: 1928-02-25

Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

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White Lies

as Dan Oliver
Released: 1935-12-27

A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all...

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Thunder Mountain

as Sam Martin
Released: 1925-10-11

Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father...

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Paris Bound

as Richard Parrish
Released: 1929-08-03

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in...

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Havoc

as Babe
Released: 1925-09-27

A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry...

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Black Paradise

as James Callahan
Released: 1926-05-30

In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their...

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The Drag Net

as Shakespeare
Released: 1928-05-01

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount...

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Take the Stand

as Hugh Halliburton
Released: 1934-08-07

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective...

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Strange Wives

as Svengaart
Released: 1934-11-30

When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

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East Lynne

as Richard Hare
Released: 1925-11-23

This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been...

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The Road to Glory

as David Hale
Released: 1926-02-07

May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.

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A Dangerous Woman

as Peter Allerton
Released: 1929-05-16

The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their...

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Fugitive Road

as Frank Riker
Released: 1934-08-22

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he...

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Sandy

as Douglas Keith
Released: 1926-04-10

Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents...

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The Ancient Mariner

as Joe Barlow
Released: 1925-12-27

Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in...

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