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Leon Ames
Catalogued films 96Actor 96
Leon Ames (born Harry L. Wycoff; January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing father figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) with Judy Garland as one of his daughters, Little Women (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951), and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953). The fathers whom Ames portrayed were often somewhat stuffy and exasperated by the younger generation, but ultimately kind and understanding. Probably his best-known purely dramatic role was as DA Kyle Sackett in the crime film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
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Jake Speed
Testament
Just You and Me, Kid
Claws
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Timber Tramps
The Meal
Hammersmith Is Out
Brother of the Wind
Toklat
The Monkey's Uncle
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Son of Flubber
The Absent-Minded Professor
From the Terrace
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Angel Face
Sabre Jet
Let's Do It Again
Cattle Drive
On Moonlight Bay
Watch the Birdie
Dial 1119
The Happy Years
Crisis
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
The Big Hangover
Ambush
Battleground
Scene of the Crime
Any Number Can Play
Little Women
A Date with Judy
The Velvet Touch
On an Island with You
Alias a Gentleman
Song of the Thin Man
Undercover Maisie
Merton of the Movies
Lady in the Lake
The Show-Off
The Postman Always Rings Twice
No Leave, No Love
The Cockeyed Miracle
The Great Morgan
They Were Expendable
Yolanda and the Thief
Week-End at the Waldorf
Son of Lassie
The Thin Man Goes Home
Meet Me in St. Louis
Crime Doctor
The Iron Major
No Greater Sin
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
East Side Kids
Fugitive at Large
Legion of Lost Flyers
Pack Up Your Troubles
Calling All Marines
Code of the Streets
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
I Was a Convict
Risky Business
Panama Patrol
The Marshal of Mesa City
Secrets of a Nurse
Strange Faces
Cipher Bureau
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Come On, Leathernecks!
Island in the Sky
International Settlement
The Spy Ring
45 Fathers
Murder in Greenwich Village
Dangerously Yours
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Pilot X
Get That Man
Rescue Squad
Strangers All
Mutiny Ahead
I'll Tell the World
Ship of Wanted Men
The Man Who Dared
Alimony Madness
Forgotten
Parachute Jumper
Uptown New York
That's My Boy
A Successful Calamity
Stowaway- CACannonball Express
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Quick Millions