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Leon Ames (born Harry Leon Wycoff; [1][2][3] January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) 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).
Leon Ames. Actor. Soundtrack. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 3:13. From the Terrace (1960) 18 Videos. 67 Photos. Leon Ames was born Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff.
Leon Ames. Actor: Peggy Sue Got Married. Leon Ames was born Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He had always wanted to be an actor and he did it the hard way, serving a long apprenticeship in touring amateur theatre companies -- even selling shoes for a while on 42nd Street in the 1920s.
Oct 19, 1993 · DESPITE having played a wide variety of roles in over a hundred films, Leon Ames is best remembered as the permanently harried father in the classic movie musical Meet Me in St...
Oct 14, 1993 · Leon Ames, a dapper character actor best known as a kindly father in film and television roles and the last surviving founder of the Screen Actors Guild, has died. He...
Leon Ames (born Harry L. Wycoff; [1] [2] [3] January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American movie and television actor. He was known for his roles in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Little Women (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951) and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).
Oct 12, 1993 · Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing fatherly figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), as Judy Garland's father, and in Little Women (1949).
Leon Ames | SAG-AFTRA. 1957-1958. Leon was a Screen Actors Guild institution and treasure, named "President emeritus" from 1979 until his 1993 death. He served but a single year as President (1957-58) but his total tenure as an elected officer and Board member stretched unbroken from 1945 to 1979.
Dec 14, 2012 · Interview Leon Ames. One of my indelible memories from 1950s television is of Leon Ames, on Life with Father, standing in the midst of a family catastrophe and exclaiming, "Oh, no!" Now the trouble with that line is that it doesn't look like much in print.
Leon Ames was an American movie and television actor. He was known for his roles in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Little Women (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951) and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).