Leon Ames
Born: 1902-01-20 in Portland, Indiana, USA
Died: 1993-10-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1986
- Peggy Sue Got Married as Barney Alvorg
- Jake Speed as Pop Winston
1983
- Testament as Henry Abhart
1979
- Just You and Me, Kid as Manduke the Magnificent
- The Best Place to Be as William Callahan
1977
- The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries as Messenger
- Claws as Ben Jones, Forest Commissioner
1976
- Sherlock Holmes in New York as Daniel Furman
1975
- The Jeffersons
- Timber Tramps as Deacon
- The Meal as Kroger
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Emergency!
- Hammersmith Is Out as General Sam Pembroke
- Brother of the Wind
1971
- Toklat as Old Man
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Frank Knox
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever as Burt Clews
1968
1966
- ABC Stage 67 as Gray
1965
- The Monkey's Uncle as Judge Holmsby
1964
- Bewitched
- The Misadventures of Merlin Jones as Judge Holmsby / Lex Fortas
1963
- Son of Flubber as Rufus Daggett
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Colonel Foxhall
- The Virginian as Judge Fitzroy
- The Lucy Show as Colonel Anderson
1961
- Mister Ed as Gordon Kirkwood
- The Absent-Minded Professor as Rufus Daggett
- Father of the Bride as Stanley Banks
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Mr. Hampton
- My Three Sons
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Damon Carlisle
- From the Terrace as Samuel Eaton
1957
- Panic!
- Peyton Place as Leslie Harrington
1956
- Engagement Party as Elliott Winston
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Col. T. Jennings Parker - Pop
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as President Rufus Daggett (archive footage)
1953
- Sabre Jet as Lt. Col. Eckert
- Angel Face as Fred Barrett
- Let's Do It Again as Chet Stuart
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon as George Winfield
- General Electric Theater as Dr. Butolph
- Life With Father
1951
- Cattle Drive as Chester Graham, Sr.
- It's a Big Country as Secret Service Man
- On Moonlight Bay as George Winfield
1950
- Crisis as Sam Proctor
- Ambush as Maj. C.E. Breverly
- Lux Video Theatre as Michael J. O'Connor
- Watch the Birdie as Grantland D. Farns
- The Big Hangover as Carl Bellcap
- The Happy Years as Sr. Samuel H. Stover
- The Skipper Surprised His Wife as Dr. Philip Abbott
- Dial 1119 as Earl
1949
- Little Women as Father March
- Battleground as The Chaplain
- Scene of the Crime as Capt. A.C. Forster
- Any Number Can Play as Dr. Palmer
1948
- Studio One as Cyrus Walker
- On an Island with You as Commander Harrison
- A Date with Judy as Lucien T. Pringle
- Alias a Gentleman as Matt Enley
- The Velvet Touch as Gordon Dunning
1947
- Song of the Thin Man as Mitchell Talbin
- Merton of the Movies as Lawrence Rupert
- The Amazing Mr. Nordill as Everett Nordill aka Everton
- Undercover Maisie as Amor/Willis Farnes
1946
- Lady in the Lake as Derace Kingsby
- No Leave, No Love as Colonel Elliott
- The Postman Always Rings Twice as Kyle Sackett
- The Cockeyed Miracle as Ralph Humphrey
- The Show-Off as Frank Harlin
1945
- Fall Guy as Floyd Parkson
- They Were Expendable as Major James Morton
- The Great Morgan as K. F.
- Anchors Aweigh as Admiral's Aide
- Son of Lassie as Anton
- Yolanda and the Thief as Mr. Candle
- Between Two Women as Masters
- Week-End at the Waldorf as Henry Burton
1944
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as Lieut. Jurika
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Edgar Draque
- Meet Me in St. Louis as Alonzo Smith
1943
- Crime Doctor as William Wheeler
- The Iron Major as Robert 'Bob' Stewart
1942
- George Washington Slept Here as Leon Ames (uncredited)
1941
- Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring as John Stack
- No Greater Sin as Dr. Edward Cavanaugh
1940
- East Side Kids as Pat O'Day
1939
- Panama Patrol as Maj. Phillip Waring
- Risky Business as Hinge Jackson
- Thunder Afloat as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
- Blackwell's Island as Ballinger (uncredited)
- The Marshal Of Mesa City as Sheriff Jud Cronin
- Legion of Lost Flyers as Smythe
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island as Commissioner Madero
- Code of the Streets as 'Chick' Foster
- Fugitive at Large as Carter
- Help Wanted as J.T. Evans-Labor Commissioner
- I Was a Convict as Jackson
- Calling All Marines as Murdock
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Adjutant
1938
- Suez as Napoleon III - Emperor of France
- Mysterious Mr. Moto as Paul Brissac
- Walking Down Broadway as Frank Gatty
- Secrets of a Nurse as Joe Largo
- Come On, Leathernecks! as Otto Wagner / Baroni
- The Spy Ring as Frank Denton
- Island in the Sky as Marty Butler
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Ex-Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Cipher Bureau as Maj. Philip Waring
- International Settlement as Monte Silver
1937
- 45 Fathers as Vincent
- Dangerously Yours as Phil
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Buzz Moran
- Murder in Greenwich Village as Rodney Hunter
- Song of Revolt as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- Soak the Poor as Special Investigator Stanton
1936
- Pilot X as Carl Goering
1935
- Mutiny Ahead as McMurtrie
- Reckless as Ralph Watson
- Get That Man as Don Clayton / McDonald
- Strangers All as Frank Walker
- Rescue Squad as Lester Vaughn (as Leon Waycoff)
1934
- Now I'll Tell as Max (as Leon Waycoff)
- I'll Tell the World as Spud Marshall
1933
- Parachute Jumper as Pilot with Alabama (uncredited)
- Only Yesterday as Lee (Uncredited)
- The Man Who Dared as Yosef Novak
- Ship of Wanted Men as John Holden
- Forgotten as Louie Strauss
- Alimony Madness as John Thurman
1932
- A Successful Calamity as Barney Davis
- Murders in the Rue Morgue as Pierre Dupin
- That's My Boy as Al Williams
- Stowaway as Tommy
- The Famous Ferguson Case as Judd Brooks
- Uptown New York as Max Silver (as Leon Waycoff)
1931
- Quick Millions as Hood