1. Leon Ames is best remembered for playing father figures in such films as Meet Me in St Louis, Little Women, On Moonlight Bay, and By the Light of the Silvery Moon.
20 Facts About Leon Ames
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Leon Ames was born Harry Leon Wycoff on January 20,1902, in Portland, Indiana, to Charles Elmer Wycoff and Cora Alice Wycoff.
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In 1935 Leon Ames explained that he had changed his name because Waycoff was often misspelled and mispronounced.
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Leon Ames ventured into acting with the group and progressed to the lead in a production of Tomorrow and Tomorrow in Los Angeles.
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Leon Ames acted for three years with the Stuart Walker Stock Company in Cincinnati.
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Leon Ames made his film debut in Quick Millions in 1931.
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Leon Ames was featured in The Postman Always Rings Twice, portraying district attorney Kyle Sackett.
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Leon Ames appeared in the Doris Day-Gordon MacRae film On Moonlight Bay, its sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Peyton Place, and From the Terrace.
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Leon Ames reprised the role in the film's 1963 sequel, Son of Flubber.
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Leon Ames had the title role of judge John Cooper in the syndicated series Frontier Judge and played Howard McMann on Bewitched.
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Leon Ames joined the cast of Mister Ed as a neighbor, following the death of actor Larry Keating.
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Leon Ames appeared in episodes of the NBC anthology series The Barbara Stanwyck Show and on the short-lived CBS legal drama Storefront Lawyers.
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Leon Ames was a founder of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933, and he served as its president in 1957.
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Leon Ames was the father of Robert Fletcher, who was left with his mother when she and Leon Ames split up in 1923.
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Leon Ames supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.
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Leon Ames called his business partner, who obtained the money from a bank and delivered it to the house as instructed.
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Leon Ames forced both the business partner and a guest in the Ames house into the trunk.
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On October 12,1993, Leon Ames died at the age of 91 in Laguna Beach, California, of complications after suffering a stroke.
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Leon Ames's gravesite is at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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In 1980, after 50 years in show business, Leon Ames received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.