Leon Ames
Popularity:1.009
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1902-01-20
Place of Birth:Portland, Indiana, USA
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Also Known As: Leon Waycoff, Harry Leon Wycoff, Harry L. Wycoff

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Lady in the Lake (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...

Angel Face (1953)
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (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!...

East Side Kids (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...

Battleground (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....

Secrets of a Nurse (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...

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a...

Just You and Me, Kid (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.

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Sherlock Holmes in New York (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...

Fugitive at Large (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...

Murders in the Rue Morgue (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...

The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

On Moonlight Bay (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...

Dial 1119 (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...

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

From the Terrace (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...

The Iron Major (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...

Little Women (1949)
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...

On an Island with You (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...

Peyton Place (1957)
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which...

Yolanda and the Thief (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...

Scene of the Crime (1949)
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.

Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to...

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments...

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a...

Pilot X (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...

They Were Expendable (1945)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (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...

Crisis (1950)
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (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...

Rescue Squad (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...

Crime Doctor (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...

It's a Big Country (1951)
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best...

Mr. Moto in Danger Island (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...

Week-End at the Waldorf (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 Date with Judy (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...

Thunder Afloat (1939)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

Sabre Jet (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...

Any Number Can Play (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...

Merton of the Movies (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...

The Happy Years (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,...

Toklat (1971)
A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from...

The Meal (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.

Cattle Drive (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 Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.

Fall Guy (1945)
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.

Soak the Poor (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...

Island in the Sky (1938)
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

Now I'll Tell (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...

Uptown New York (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...

The Great Morgan (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...

Strangers All (1935)
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Brother of the Wind (1973)
A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.

Let's Do It Again (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...

Undercover Maisie (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...

Engagement Party (1956)
Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."

Claws (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...

International Settlement (1938)
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Get That Man (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.

Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

The Big Hangover (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.

The Amazing Mr. Nordill (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...

Between Two Women (1945)
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.

Watch the Birdie (1950)
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.

Panama Patrol (1939)
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

Reckless (1935)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

No Greater Sin (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...

The Monkey's Uncle (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,...

Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious...

Suez (1938)
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Forgotten (1933)
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws'...

Risky Business (1939)
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.

Alias a Gentleman (1948)
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.

Parachute Jumper (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.

Jake Speed (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...

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)

I'll Tell the World (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,...

Help Wanted (1939)
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket

That's Entertainment! (1974)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

The Famous Ferguson Case (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...

Testament (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...

Blackwell's Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

The Marshal Of Mesa City (1939)
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

Ambush (1950)
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the...

The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

Calling All Marines (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.

The Man Who Dared (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...

Dangerously Yours (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...

No Leave, No Love (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...

Cipher Bureau (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.

The Show-Off (1946)
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.

Come On, Leathernecks! (1938)
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.

I Was a Convict (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...

Code of the Streets (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,...

Legion of Lost Flyers (1939)
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running...

Peggy Sue Got Married (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.

Alimony Madness (1933)
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.

Quick Millions (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...

Son of Lassie (1945)
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?

Hammersmith Is Out (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...

A Successful Calamity (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...

Son of Flubber (1963)
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he...

The Spy Ring (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...

George Washington Slept Here (1942)
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in...

Stowaway (1932)
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and...

Walking Down Broadway (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...

Murder in Greenwich Village (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...

Song of Revolt (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.

Mutiny Ahead (1935)
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.

The Best Place to Be (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...

That's My Boy (1932)
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders...

Only Yesterday (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...

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (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...

Timber Tramps (1975)
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (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...

45 Fathers (1937)
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.

Mister Ed (1961)
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his...

The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
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My Three Sons (1960)
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An...

The Lucy Show (1962)
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The Jeffersons (1975)
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from...

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
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Studio One (1948)
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Bewitched (1964)
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband...

General Electric Theater (1953)
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Emergency! (1972)
The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and Rampart Hospital respond to emergencies in their...

The Name of the Game (1968)
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Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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Father of the Bride (1961)
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ABC Stage 67 (1966)
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Life With Father (1953)
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
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Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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General Electric Theater (1953)
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The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of...

The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

The Virginian (1962)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The...