Biography
Leon Ames 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), Little Women (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951), and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953). His best-known dramatic role may have been in the crime film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
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Awards & recognition
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award · 1980
Filmography50+ titles
Alimony Madness
Emergency!
Undercover Maisie
Bewitched
The Andy Griffith Show
That's Entertainment!
Little Women
The Jeffersons
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Thin Man Goes Home
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
The Lucy Show
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Beverly Hillbillies
Any Number Can Play
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Peyton Place
Song of the Thin Man
Anchors Aweigh
Lux Video Theatre
Battleground
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
The Absent Minded Professor
My Three Sons
From the Terrace
Crisis
The Virginian
On Moonlight Bay
They Were Expendable
Uptown New York
Testament
Week-End at the Waldorf
George Washington Slept Here
East Side Kids
Pilot X
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Son of Lassie
Peggy Sue Got Married
Son of Flubber
Scene of the Crime
A Date with Judy
Lady in the Lake
Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Monkey's Uncle
On an Island with You
Parachute Jumper
Watch the Birdie