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Leonard Mudie (born Leonard Mudie Cheetham; April 11, 1883 – April 14, 1965) was an English character actor whose career lasted for nearly fifty years. After a successful start as a stage actor in England, he appeared regularly in the US, and made his home there from 1932.
Leonard Mudie (1883-1965) was a versatile and prolific actor who appeared in nearly 150 films and TV shows. He was known for his roles as judges, doctors, lawyers and other characters in films such as The Mummy, Captain Blood and The Story of Mankind.
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Leonard Mudie was a stalwart acting veteran who made nearly 150 appearances before the camera. He was from the Midlands of England and began on stage in 1908 at the Gaiety Theater (1884-1959) in Manchester.
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Leonard Mudie (11 April 1883 – 14 April 1965; age 82) was an English actor who played the second illusory survivor of the SS Columbia in "The Cage", the original pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series. Footage of his appearance was used in the first season episode "The Menagerie, Part I". Despite having dialog, he was not credited for his role in either episodes.
Mudie's role in Star Trek ultimately proved to be his last. He died just four months after filming "The Cage" and one year and five months before The Original Series first aired. He was the first of two Star Trek staffers to die before the series premiered on television; the second was Ross Dowd. Mudie was the second oldest hired actor to appear in the Star Trek franchise.
Along with Judith Anderson, Walter Bacon, Bill Borzage, Jane Crowley, Morgan Farley, Richard Hale, Anthony Jochim, Felix Locher, Celia Lovsky, Charles Seel, Abraham Sofaer, Eleanore Vogel, and Ian Wolfe, he is one of only fourteen Star Trek guest stars born in the 19th century to appear in any episode or film. Three credited Star Trek production staffers – Franz Bachelin, Ernest Haller, and Byron Haskin – were also born in the 1800s. Having been born in 1883, he was the second oldest actor who ever appeared on Star Trek, surpassed only by Locher, but the first one to die.
Born as Leonard Mudie Cheetham in the Cheetham Hill suburb of Manchester, England, Mudie started his acting career in 1908 on the theater stage in his home city, rapidly making a name for himself. In 1914, he went to America to play on Broadway, first appearing in the original play "Consequences", where he would, on and off continue to play until 1948. In between, from 1921 to 1923, he moved to Hollywood, to get his first taste of the motion picture industry during the silent movie era, before returning to Broadway. However, in 1931 he definitely returned to Hollywood, never to return to the East Coast, save for a last performance in 1948. In Hollywood, due to his English intonation, he had little trouble finding gainful employment at the start of the sound era from the mid 1930s onward, though mostly as featured extra.
In his career, extending nearly 45 years, Mudie appeared in over 130 feature films, some of the more notable being such classics as The Mummy (1932), Captain Blood (1935) Les Miserables (1935), Lost Horizon (1937, starring Jane Wyatt), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Dark Victory (1939), Foreign Correspondent (1940, with Ian Wolfe), The Letter (1940), Random Harvest (1942, with Ian Wolfe), When Worlds Collide (1951, starring Richard Derr and John Hoyt), Limelight (1952), and Kiss Me Deadly (1955, on which Robert H. Justman worked as assistant director.
Mudie also appeared in multiple episodes of the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman, which also featured future Star Trek performers Peter Brocco, Elisha Cook, Jeff Corey, and Vic Perrin. Other television programs he appeared in include Sea Hunt and The Untouchables.
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Leonard Mudie was an English character actor who appeared in films, Broadway and TV from 1932 to 1965. He played roles such as Dr. Pearson in The Mummy, Porthinos in Cleopatra, and Commander Barnes in Bomba, the Jungle Boy.
Leonard Mudie was an English character actor whose career lasted for nearly fifty years. Background. Mudie was born in a suburb of Manchester in the north west of England. Career. After a successful start as a stage actor in England, he appeared regularly in the United States, and made his home there from 1932.
Biography. A British actor born in Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom on April 11, 1883 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on April 14, 1965 of heart disease. He married two wives and had one child.
