Leon Ames Net Worth is
$500,000

Mini Biography

Leon Ames was created Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He previously always wished to become an acting professional and he achieved it the hard method, serving an extended apprenticeship in touring amateur theatre businesses, even selling shoes and boots for some time on 42nd Road in the 1920’s. It had taken him until 1933 to create his debut on Broadway. His play on the Morosco Theater, “It Gives to Sin”, lasted for just three shows after receiving devastating critical reviews. At that time, he had currently made an appearance in his initial film, the sombre, expressionistic Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), an Edgar Allan Poe version, where Leon performed the dependable like curiosity of heroine Sidney Fox. For another 3 years, he appeared under his birth name, Leon Waycoff, in a number of B-movies for “poverty row” studios like Mayfair, Showmen’s Images, World-Wide Images, Empire and Majestic. His initial film, as Leon Ames, was the Shirley Temple automobile, Stowaway (1932). For another couple of years, he offered just one more apprenticeship, playing a number of stalwart individuals and the casual theif in such cheerful potboilers as the anemic Murder in Greenwich Community (1937), the amusing Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) as well as the eminently forgettable Secrets of the Nurse (1938). There have been occasional features: he made an appearance in Ernst Lubitsch’s last film at Paramount, Bluebeard’s 8th Wife (1938), with Gary Cooper and Myrna Loy, as well as starred as the main character of Cipher Bureau (1938) and Panama Patrol (1939), albeit at Grand Country wide. Leon’s profession improved significantly after using Judy Garland’s dad Alonzo (along with Mary Astor seeing that the matriarch from the family members) in MGM’s common, Meet Me personally in St. Louis (1944), directed by Vincente Minnelli. For the very first time, Leon’s acting skills were utilized to excellence, particularly his capability to deliver dryly funny one-liners. Agreed upon to a agreement at MGM, Leon was today cast in essential character tasks in more essential pictures, generally as put-upon, caring fathers: A Day with Judy (1948), Small Ladies (1949), (where he once again teamed up with Mary Astor), From the Light from the Silvery Moon (1953), to mention but several. For something very different, he also performed district lawyer “Kyle Sackett” in the film noir, The Postman Constantly Rings Double (1946) and, against type, portrayed Paul Newman’s completely unpleasant dad in Through the Terrace (1960). Leon continued in movies good until his old age and was last viewed as Kathleen Turner’s grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). On tv, he had a favorite work starring in Existence with Dad (1953) and Dad of the Bride-to-be (1961) (performed by Spencer Tracy for the silver screen) and playing Wilbur Post’s neighbor, “Gordon Kirkwood”, in Mister Ed (1958). Leon’s additional claim to popularity was being among 19 stars, who, after a clandestine conference in June 1933, founded the Display Actor’s Guild. For thirty years, from 1945, he kept a senior professional position as saving secretary and offered as national chief executive of the business between 1957 and 1979. He kept a further placement for the panel of governors from the Academy of FILM Arts and Sciences. The dapper professional and enthusiastic unionist passed away at a Laguna Seaside, California, nursing house on the ripe later years of 91 on Oct 12 1993.

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