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
- The Best Place to Be as William Callahan
- Just You and Me, Kid as Manduke the Magnificent
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 Virginian as Judge Fitzroy
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Colonel Foxhall
- The Lucy Show as Colonel Anderson
1961
- Mister Ed as Gordon Kirkwood
- Father of the Bride as Stanley Banks
- The Absent-Minded Professor as Rufus Daggett
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
- MGM Parade
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Col. T. Jennings Parker - Pop
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as President Rufus Daggett (archive footage)
1953
- General Electric Theater as Dr. Butolph
- Angel Face as Fred Barrett
- Life With Father
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon as George Winfield
- Let's Do It Again as Chet Stuart
- Sabre Jet as Lt. Col. Eckert
1951
- It's a Big Country as Secret Service Man
- Cattle Drive as Chester Graham, Sr.
- On Moonlight Bay as George Winfield
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Michael J. O'Connor
- Ambush as Maj. C.E. Breverly
- Crisis as Sam Proctor
- The Happy Years as Sr. Samuel H. Stover
- The Big Hangover as Carl Bellcap
- Dial 1119 as Earl
- Watch the Birdie as Grantland D. Farns
- The Skipper Surprised His Wife as Dr. Philip Abbott
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
- A Date with Judy as Lucien T. Pringle
- On an Island with You as Commander Harrison
- The Velvet Touch as Gordon Dunning
- Alias a Gentleman as Matt Enley
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
- The Postman Always Rings Twice as Kyle Sackett
- Lady in the Lake as Derace Kingsby
- The Cockeyed Miracle as Ralph Humphrey
- No Leave, No Love as Colonel Elliott
- The Show-Off as Frank Harlin
1945
- They Were Expendable as Major James Morton
- Anchors Aweigh as Admiral's Aide
- Yolanda and the Thief as Mr. Candle
- Son of Lassie as Anton
- Week-End at the Waldorf as Henry Burton
- Between Two Women as Masters
- The Great Morgan as K. F.
- Fall Guy as Floyd Parkson
1944
- Meet Me in St. Louis as Alonzo Smith
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as Lieut. Jurika
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Edgar Draque
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
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island as Commissioner Madero
- Code of the Streets as 'Chick' Foster
- Panama Patrol as Maj. Phillip Waring
- I Was a Convict as Jackson
- The Marshal Of Mesa City as Sheriff Jud Cronin
- Blackwell's Island as Ballinger (uncredited)
- Legion of Lost Flyers as Smythe
- Thunder Afloat as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Adjutant
- Fugitive at Large as Carter
- Risky Business as Hinge Jackson
- Calling All Marines as Murdock
- Help Wanted as J.T. Evans-Labor Commissioner
1938
- Secrets of a Nurse as Joe Largo
- Suez as Napoleon III - Emperor of France
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Ex-Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Mysterious Mr. Moto as Paul Brissac
- International Settlement as Monte Silver
- Cipher Bureau as Maj. Philip Waring
- Walking Down Broadway as Frank Gatty
- The Spy Ring as Frank Denton
- Come On, Leathernecks! as Otto Wagner / Baroni
- Island in the Sky as Marty Butler
- Strange Faces as Joe Gurney
1937
- Dangerously Yours as Phil
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Buzz Moran
- Song of Revolt as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- Murder in Greenwich Village as Rodney Hunter
- 45 Fathers as Vincent
- Soak the Poor as Special Investigator Stanton
1936
- Pilot X as Carl Goering
1935
- Reckless as Ralph Watson
- Strangers All as Frank Walker
- Rescue Squad as Lester Vaughn (as Leon Waycoff)
- Get That Man as Don Clayton / McDonald
- Mutiny Ahead as McMurtrie
1934
- Now I'll Tell as Max (as Leon Waycoff)
- I'll Tell the World as Spud Marshall
1933
- Only Yesterday as Lee (Uncredited)
- Forgotten as Louie Strauss
- Parachute Jumper as Pilot with Alabama (uncredited)
- Ship of Wanted Men as John Holden
- Alimony Madness as John Thurman
- The Man Who Dared as Yosef Novak
1932
- Murders in the Rue Morgue as Pierre Dupin
- Stowaway as Tommy
- The Famous Ferguson Case as Judd Brooks
- That's My Boy as Al Williams
- Uptown New York as Max Silver (as Leon Waycoff)
- A Successful Calamity as Barney Davis
- Cannonball Express as Jack Logan
1931
- Quick Millions as Hood