Leon Alton
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1907-08-23
- Décès:
- 1995-08-25
- Lieu de naissance:
- New York, USA
Biographie
Leon Alton enjoyed a career on stage, screen, and television starting in the 1920s and lasting until the late 1970s. In the 1930s he started out on the Broadway stage appearing in various musicals which lasted until the early 1940s. Then like many Broadway actors and dancers, he seemingly drifted his way to Hollywood where he was able to use his talents as a dancer to appear in many party scenes in a suit dancing in some of the most well known films. Like many dancers though, that was only part of their work as they could not survive on musicals alone and by the mid 1950s musicals started to lose their popularity so he had to find work elsewhere He was never unemployed long. Alton's appearance was ideal for bankers, or distinguished townsman, or whatever was needed. By the late 1950s, he was able to secure some roles in which he received screen credit in shows like Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, and Lock-Up all while still appearing at the usual party scenes or the social gatherings. By the 1960s his career was still going strong as he still found work in the usual places and managed to appear in several well known movies like True Grit, The Cheyenne Social Club, and Airport and appearing in most of the well known television shows of the time. His career wound down by the 1970s and while his name won't garner the attention or recognition to film audiences of today, most casting directors could tell you it was a name that should be respected and could be depended on.
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Filmographie
Pas vu, pas pris
L'Apprentie sorcière
Columbo
The Partridge Family
Attaque au Cheyenne Club
Watermelon Man
Tora ! Tora ! Tora !
L'Ordinateur en folie
The Love God?
Cent dollars pour un shérif
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Sweet Charity
Un amour de Coccinelle
Les Feux de l'enfer
Funny Girl
Star!
Frissons garantis
Les tiens, les miens, le nôtre
Le Fantôme de Barbe Noire
Comment sauver un mariage et ruiner votre vie
Banning
Cimarron
Divorce American Style
La nuit des assassins
Batman : Le film
Notre homme Flint
Batman
Ne pas déranger s'il vous plaît
Le Kid de Cincinnati
Max la Menace
La Nef des fous
La Grande Course autour du monde
Brainstorm
Two on a Guillotine
Youngblood Hawke
Un mari à tout faire
Looking for Love
Pas de printemps pour Marnie
Madame Croque-maris
Que le meilleur l'emporte
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Papa playboy
The Wheeler Dealers
Ah si papa savait ça !
Twilight of Honor
L'Homme à la Rolls
Arrest and Trial
Le piment de la vie
Critic's Choice
Le Jour du vin et des roses
Period of Adjustment
Tempête à Washington
L'Inquiétante dame en noir
Les Trois Sergents
Tendre est la nuit
Le Pays des jouets
Volupté
La Ruée vers l'Ouest
Procès de singe
Qui était donc cette dame ?
Les Incorruptibles
Bourbon Street Beat
La Quatrième Dimension
Bonanza
Le désosseur de cadavres
Holiday for Lovers
La Dernière Fanfare
L'Adorable voisine
Traquenard
Alcoa Theatre
Perry Mason
The Young Stranger
Un vrai cinglé de cinéma
Marqué par la haine
Le cygne
L'Homme au Complet Gris
Forever, Darling
Le tueur s’est évadé
Témoin à abattre
Cheyenne
Three for the Show
New York Confidential
Désirée
Phffft !
Une étoile est née
La Tour des ambitieux
Mademoiselle Porte-bonheur
Un grain de folie
Traversons la Manche
Le Jongleur
Small Town Girl
Le Gentilhomme de la Louisiane
Niagara
La Maîtresse de fer
Les Miserables
Sirocco
L'implacable
The Iroquois Trail
Destination Murder
Un pacte avec le diable
Pris au piège
So You Want to Be a Salesman
Desperate
College Holiday