Leon Ames

Leon Ames

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 75 (Actor)

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    The Absent Minded Professor
    A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself. (imdb)
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    Bluebeard\
    US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis... (imdb)
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    Peyton Place
    Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbour... (imdb)
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    Meet Me in St. Louis
    St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair. (imdb)
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    Battleground
    A squad of the 101st Airborne Division copes with being trapped in the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. (imdb)
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    They Were Expendable
    A dramatized account of the role of the American PT Boats in the defense of the Philippines in World War II. (imdb)
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    Angel Face
    When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur; but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out. (imdb)
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    Song of the Thin Man
    Nick and Nora Charles are attending a charity benefit aboard a gambling ship. The festive atmosphere conceals many tensions among those connected with the ship, with most of the friction centering around Tommy Drake, its unpopular, spiteful band-leader... (imdb)
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    The Happy Years
    The film is set at an early 20th-century boy's prep school; Dean Stockwell plays an habitual troublemaker sent to this school as a means of straightening him out and making a man of him... (All Movie Guide)
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    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.
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    Murders in the Rue Morgue
    In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back. (imdb)
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    Mysterious Mr. Moto
    Mr. Moto has himself imprisoned on Devil's Island so he can help his cellmate (Ames) escape and thereby get the goods on a gang of international killers. (imdb)
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    Crisis
    Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago. As they leave the country, Dr and Madam are arrested and lead to Farrago. He has a tumor that has to be removed quickly. Ferguson's duty is to cure sick people, but letting Farrago die would be a relief for the people... (imdb)
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    Week-End at the Waldorf
    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 an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer, and more... (imdb)
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    Son of Flubber
    Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill, even if he has yet to receive a cent. He thinks he may have found the solution in the form of flubbergas, which can change the weather. It also helps Medfield College's football team to win a game. At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend. (imdb)
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    Lady in the Lake
    Robert Montgomery stars in and directs this adaptation of a Raymond Chandler novel. Detective Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate the disappearance of a publisher's wife, but complications arise when suspects are mysteriously murdered and Marlowe isn't sure who he can trust. The film is notable as the first to be mostly filmed in a first-person perspective.
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    By the Light of the Silvery Moon
    The trials and tribulations of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as Marjorie Winfield's boyfriend, William Sherman, returns from the Army after W.W.I. Bill & Marjorie's on-again, off-again provide the backdrop for other family issues, primarily brought on by little brother Wesley's overactive imagination and tall tales. (imdb)
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    Timber Tramps
    Claude Akins plays a tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman, who likes fighting only slightly less than working. (imdb)
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    From the Terrace
    Paul Newman must choose between career, his wife, and another woman in this classy soap opera.
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    A Date with Judy
    Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challenged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie
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    Hammersmith Is Out
    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 (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (Bridges) vast riches if he'll help him escape. (imdb)
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    On Moonlight Bay
    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 dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time (setting is during WWI.) His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president. (imdb)
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    Scene of the Crime
    Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, most upsetting to the racket bosses who can't get normal police protection. Mike encounters blind alleys and double crosses, and is distracted by his wife's growing disenchantment. Lots of police slang. (imdb)
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    Suez
    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. (imdb)
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    The Velvet Touch
    Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect. Or is suave police Captain Danbury just playing cat and mouse with her? Nicely catty dialogue. (imdb)
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    Yolanda and the Thief
    A con man poses as a Latin American heiress'' guardian angel. (TCM.com)
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    Ambush
    Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood, whose last film this was. Robert Taylor stars as an Indian scout, sent to rescue a woman who is somewhere deep in Apache territory. The woman's sister, naturally, goes along for the ride: she is played by Arlene Dahl, then in her considerable prime. Outside of its feminine angle, Ambush is packed with action from first frame to last. (answers.com)
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    Claws
    Hunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. Jason Evers sets out to stop it in the frozen plains of the Alaska mountains (imdb)
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    The Cockeyed Miracle
    Man returns from heaven to make up for financial errors he made that caused harm to his family. (imdb)
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    Dial 1119
    A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage. (imdb)
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    Merton of the Movies
    A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious. (imdb)
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    Watch the Birdie
    A cameraman helps a heiress to get rid off her finacial adviser, who wants to get her money. (imdb)
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    Let\
    A divorced couple finds it impossible to stay out of each other's lives. (TCM.com)
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    The Monkey\
    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. (imdb)
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    Undercover Maisie
    A stranded showgirl joins the police force and risks her life to expose a phony psychic. (TCM.com)
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    Cattle Drive
    An immature teenager learns about life from a veteran cowboy. (starz.com)
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    Son of Lassie
    Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage? (imdb)
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    East Side Kids
    A young street kid grows up and becomes a cop when he realizes that crime doesn't pay. One of his childhood friends is in prison for a murder he didn't commit, and the cop looks for evidence to free him. Meanwhile, the prisoner's brother gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters, and inadvertently discovers the evidence that can set his brother free, if he can only get someone to believe him. (imdb)
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    The Iron Major
    The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism by Pat O'Brien. Leaving home and hearth behind to serve his country in the Great War, Cavanaugh goes on to lead the Dartmouth, Boston College and Fordham football teams to victory. His credo throughout is "Love of God?Love of Country?Love of Family"-inspiriational words indeed in war-torn 1943. (allrovi.com)
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    The Skipper Surprised His Wife
    The titular skipper, Cmdr. William Lattimer, is played by Robert Walker, while his wife Daphne is portrayed by Joan Leslie. When Daphne is incapacitated by a broken leg, the skipper takes over management of their home. A stickler for nautical discipline, Lattimer tries to run things "the Navy way," but this proves not only futile but ridiculous. A secondary plot involves the efforts made by Lattimer and his superior officer Admiral Homer Thorndyke Edward Arnold to line up appropriate civilian jo (allrovi.com)
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    Forgotten
    A kindly old man is neglected by his selfish and greedy family. (imdb)
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    Island in the Sky
    In this drama, a woman is betrothed to a district attorney. When a man is falsely convicted of murder and condemned to death, the woman postpones her wedding to prove him innocent. She enlists the help of a former gangster and eventually succeeds in saving the innocent man's life. (allrovi.com)
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    Uptown New York
    A human story of a girl who was... just human - by Vina Delmar author of "Bad Girl" (imdb)
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    Mutiny Ahead
    A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure. (imdb)
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    45 Fathers
    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.
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    Death in the Air
    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. (imdb)
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    The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
    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. (imdb)
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    Get That Man
    Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune. (imdb)
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    Alimony Madness
    A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife. (imdb)
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    Calling All Marines
    In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps so he can pilfer the plans for a newly developed aerial torpedo. To get in, the crook steals an innocent young man's papers and forges them for himself. Later, he gets his chance and nabs the plans. Unfortunately, the man whom he pretends to be finds out and gets the crook tossed into jail. Later the enemy agents help him escape. (imdb)
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    Cipher Bureau
    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. (imdb)
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    Code of the Streets
    Hoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with a man calling himself "Denver" Collins. Collins has disappeared, and perjured evidence leads to Tommy's conviction. Tommy's younger brother Danny and his gang of alley kids,"The Little Tough Guys"--- "Sailor", "Murphy", "Monk", "Trouble" and "Yap"---scheme to save Tommy from the electric chair. (imdb)
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    Come On, Leathernecks!
    The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines. (imdb)
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    The Crosby Case
    Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder. (imdb)
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    Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
    Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father (Charley Grapewin) are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack (Blanche Yurka). There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things. (allmovie.com)
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    The Great Morgan
    When an actor attempts to produce an elaborate movie, disaster ensues. (allmovie.com)
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    I\
    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 (Tracy) nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke (Onslow Stevens) on behalf of his wire service. (allmovie.com)
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    Legion of Lost Flyers
    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 wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in. (imdb)
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    The Man Who Dared
    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, 1933. (imdb)
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    The Marshal of Mesa City
    School teacher Virginia King, annoyed by the unwanted attentions from Mesa City sheriff Jud Cronin, resigns and departs for Yuma. Her stagecoach is attacked by a gang led be Cronin's henchman Pete Henderson, trying to force her to return to Mesa City. Ex-lawman Cliff Mason comes along and disarms and unmasks the outlaws. It will take several days to repair the coach and Cliff takes Virginia back to Mesa City. (imdb)
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    Strangers All
    Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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    Pack Up Your Troubles
    Out of work vaudevillians join the army in WWI and head for France where they encounter an American girl (Withers) whose father (Schildkraut) is a French officer. Lots of slapstick. (imdb)
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    Mister Ed
    Mister Ed (1961) - TV Series
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    No Leave, No Love
    The men are coming home from war and Slinky decides his hero buddy Michael should first appear on a radio program. The good natured and talented sergeant meets radio singer Susan where he finds love in between songs.
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    Panama Patrol
    The head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane, when he is informed that the state department has discovered a message that must be decoded. With the information given, Waring and his assistant, Lt. Murdock, investigate but their every move seems to be known to their alien adversaries. Helen discovers that Arlie Johnson, interpreter for the bureau is the real leader of the spy ring but, she falls into the hands of Johnson and his spy-ring henchmen. (imdb)
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    Soak the Poor
    Soak the Poor (1937) - Short Film
    Entry number 11 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. (imdb)
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    Fall Guy
    Fall Guy (1945) - Short Film
    Leon Ames plays a guy who is embezzling from his bank. However, he's very clever and amoral--killing a bank examiner and framing an innocent man of the crime. In fact, the innocent guy has been sentenced to die and it's up to a determined investigator to turn up the truth before it's too late. And, it all ends in a tremendously violent and exciting finale.
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    No Greater Sin
    A local health official tries to stop the spread of VD in a town. (imdb)
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    Murder in Greenwich Village
    An heiress uses a photographer as an alibi when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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    The Spy Ring
    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 avenge his friend's death.
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    Sabre Jet
    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), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage -
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    Risky Business
    Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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    That\
    Tommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
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    Song of Revolt
    Song of Revolt (1937) - Short Film
    This tabloid musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem came to be written during the French Revolution.
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    Secrets of a Nurse
    When battered prize-fighter Lee Burke is taken to the West Side hospital, nurse Katherine MacDonald leaves her romantically-inclined patient, wealthy attorney John Dodge to take care of Burke. She discovers that Burke was doped by his handler, Churchill, on instructions from gambler Joe Largo so the latter can win a $5000 bet from Burke's manager Slice Cavanaugh. Largo orders henchman Larry Carson to bump off Churchill to keep him from talking.
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