Filmografía de Leon Ames como actor
Películas protagonizadas por Leon Ames
🎭 Barney Alvorg
6.1
1986
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. ...
🎭 Pop Winston
4.4
1986
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnappe ...
🎭 Henry Abhart
6.4
1983
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, mor ...
🎭 Manduke the Magnificent
5.5
1979
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers. ...
🎭 William Callahan
6
1979
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes ba ...
🎭 Ben Jones, Forest Commissioner
4
1977
Una vieja leyenda de los indios se convierte en realidad: el mal (Kush-Ta-Ka) toma cuerpo en un gigantesco oso pardo, un animal dotado de inteligencia que hace imposible su caza por los medios ha ...
🎭 Floyd Parkson
4
1977
A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris Monroe, an estranged husband and wife, pursue ...
🎭 Daniel Furman
5.8
1976
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the ...
🎭 Deacon
0
1975
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working. ...
🎭 Kroger
0
1975
A rich Florida woman (Dina Merrill) invites big shots to a banquet, then watches with a friend (Carl Betz) as they destroy one another. ...
🎭 (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.3
1974
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history. ...
5
1973
A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild. ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
🎭 General Sam Pembroke
6.2
1972
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll ...
🎭 Burt Clews
6.5
1970
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it ...
🎭 Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
7.2
1970
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the ...
🎭 Judge Holmsby
6
1965
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus. ...
🎭 Judge Holmsby / Lex Fortas
6.5
1964
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law. ...
🎭 Rufus Daggett
5.9
1963
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting ...
🎭 Rufus Daggett
6.4
1961
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of sho ...
🎭 Samuel Eaton
6.7
1960
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between bu ...
🎭 Leslie Harrington
6.6
1957
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison ...
🎭 Elliott Winston
0
1956
Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps." ...
🎭 Lt. Col. Eckert
6.7
1953
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray) ...
🎭 Chet Stuart
3.5
1953
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries ...
🎭 George Winfield
5.8
1953
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family. ...
🎭 Fred Barrett
7.1
1953
An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side. ...
🎭 Secret Service Man
5.3
1951
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated b ...
🎭 Chester Graham, Sr.
6.1
1951
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons o ...
🎭 George Winfield
6.4
1951
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dan ...
🎭 Grantland D. Farns
5.3
1950
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks. ...
🎭 Earl
5.5
1950
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage. ...
🎭 Sr. Samuel H. Stover
7.7
1950
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just ...
🎭 Sam Proctor
6.6
1950
El doctor Ferguson, un famoso neurocirujano, está de vacaciones con su esposa en un país de América del Sur. Raoul Farrago, el dictador que lo gobierna, los retiene para que el médico lo oper ...
🎭 Dr. Philip Abbott
4.7
1950
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship. ...
🎭 Carl Bellcap
6.7
1950
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol. ...
🎭 Maj. C.E. Breverly
5.1
1950
Una atractiva y joven aventurera convence a un explorador para que la ayude a encontrar a su hermana, que ha desaparecido en territorio apache. A la expedición se une también el Capitán Lorris ...
🎭 The Chaplain
6.6
1949
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have alread ...
🎭 Capt. A.C. Forster
6.2
1949
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities. ...
🎭 Dr. Palmer
6.9
1949
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life ...
🎭 Father March
7.4
1949
Mientras su padre está en la guerra, cuatro jóvenes hermanas de caracteres muy diferentes realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. A medida que van ...
🎭 Lucien T. Pringle
6
1948
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy sus ...
🎭 Gordon Dunning
6.1
1948
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt. ...
🎭 Commander Harrison
5.3
1948
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the youn ...
🎭 Matt Enley
6.5
1948
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters. ...
🎭 Lawrence Rupert
6.8
1947
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to ge ...
🎭 Masters
5.9
1947
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cleverest counterfeiters who ever baffled the ag ...
🎭 Edgar Draque
7.1
1947
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club. ...
🎭 Amor/Willis Farnes
8
1947
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a c ...
🎭 Derace Kingsby
6.1
1946
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas ...
🎭 Ralph Humphrey
6.7
1946
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter. ...
🎭 Kyle Sackett
7
1946
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. ...
🎭 Colonel Elliott
6
1946
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which ...
🎭 Major James Morton
6.5
1945
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards ...
🎭 Mr. Candle
5.7
1945
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tan ...
🎭 Henry Burton
6
1945
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without ...
🎭 Admiral's Aide
6.8
1945
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can ...
🎭 Anton
5.9
1945
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage? ...
🎭 John Holden
2
1945
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series. ...
🎭 Everett Nordill aka Everton
5.5
1945
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital. ...
🎭 K. F.
5.5
1945
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, intersp ...
🎭 Mitchell Talbin
6.8
1944
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation. ...
🎭 Mr. Alonzo Smith
7
1944
The life of a St. Louis family in the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. ...
🎭 Lieut. Jurika
6.6
1944
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland. ...
🎭 Robert 'Bob' Stewart
5.8
1943
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winni ...
🎭 William Wheeler
6.2
1943
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist. ...
🎭 Leon Ames (uncredited)
6.2
1942
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed ...
🎭 John Stack
5.7
1941
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation. ...
🎭 Dr. Edward Cavanaugh
3.5
1941
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry ho ...
🎭 Pat O'Day
7
1940
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder ...
🎭 Carter
6
1939
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the g ...
🎭 Sheriff Jud Cronin
8
1939
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption. ...
🎭 'Chick' Foster
7
1939
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen waste ...
🎭 Adjutant
6.2
1939
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines. ...
🎭 Murdock
0
1939
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox. ...
🎭 Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
5.9
1939
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I. ...
🎭 J.T. Evans-Labor Commissioner
0
1939
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket ...
🎭 Smythe
4
1939
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to p ...
🎭 Commissioner Madero
7
1939
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown dagger ...
🎭 Maj. Phillip Waring
5
1939
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal. ...
🎭 Jackson
5
1939
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them bo ...
🎭 Hinge Jackson
6
1939
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped. ...
🎭 Ballinger (uncredited)
5
1939
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...
🎭 Joe Largo
3
1938
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from th ...
🎭 Napoleon III - Emperor of France
5.4
1938
Ferdinand de Lesseps fue un joven aristócrata e ingeniero francés que proyectó la construcción del Canal de Suez (inaugurado en 1869), pero tuvo que afrontar numerosos problemas para llevar a ...
🎭 Maj. Philip Waring
5.5
1938
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent. ...
🎭 Paul Brissac
5.7
1938
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard. ...
🎭 Otto Wagner / Baroni
5
1938
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines. ...
🎭 Marty Butler
7
1938
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office. ...
🎭 Ex-Chauffeur (uncredited)
7
1938
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts ...
🎭 Frank Gatty
5.7
1938
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse. ...
🎭 Monte Silver
5
1938
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio). ...
🎭 Frank Denton
5
1938
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and aveng ...
🎭 Rodney Hunter
6.3
1937
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now th ...
🎭 Buzz Moran
7.2
1937
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence. ...
🎭 Phil
6
1937
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks. ...
🎭 Special Investigator Stanton
7
1937
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight. ...
🎭 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
6
1937
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution. ...
🎭 Carl Goering
5
1936
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion. ...
🎭 Don Clayton / McDonald
3.7
1935
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune. ...
🎭 Lester Vaughn (as Leon Waycoff)
2
1935
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by ...
🎭 Ralph Watson
5.3
1935
Una actriz, de la que está enamorado su agente, acaba casándose con un millonario. ...
🎭 Frank Walker
5.5
1935
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children. ...
🎭 McMurtrie
4
1935
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure. ...
🎭 Max (as Leon Waycoff)
4.8
1934
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most. ...
🎭 Spud Marshall
0
1934
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the ...
🎭 Lee (Uncredited)
6.8
1933
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addresse ...
🎭 Yosef Novak
6
1933
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1 ...
🎭 John Thurman
0
1933
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife. ...
🎭 Pilot with Alabama (uncredited)
6.1
1933
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob. ...
🎭 Max Silver (as Leon Waycoff)
5.8
1932
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor M ...
🎭 Al Williams
0
1932
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles ...
🎭 Barney Davis
4.8
1932
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry p ...
🎭 Judd Brooks
6
1932
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is kil ...
🎭 Pierre Dupin
6.1
1932
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. ...
🎭 Hood
7.1
1931
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community. ...