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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.
Most Popular Leon Alton Trailers
Total trailers found: 74
21 June 1967
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
08 April 1960
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent.
17 January 1968
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
28 October 1958
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials.
28 March 1964
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
18 July 1968
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
13 September 1947
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
01 August 1969
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success.
15 February 1955
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
13 November 1963
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a retired, legendary lawyer for help.
05 April 1964
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
30 July 1966
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
05 May 1965
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
18 June 1953
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel.
03 February 1956
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man.
31 October 1962
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
21 July 1959
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America.
14 August 1952
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
13 November 1963
After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent.
10 November 1954
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce.
13 January 1965
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance.
14 November 1963
Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market.
01 February 1957
The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble.
29 December 1969
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college.
27 November 1968
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
11 June 1969
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death.
26 January 1970
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end.
01 December 1960
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
10 April 1953
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town.
19 November 1952
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse.
25 February 1969
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life.
29 July 1959
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
17 July 1964
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
21 August 1964
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
07 October 1971
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster.
10 March 1961
A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.
15 October 1965
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
24 April 1968
When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
17 February 1949
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless.
31 December 1958
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
19 December 1936
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
27 May 1970
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
09 June 1950
Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father.
23 February 1951
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
22 December 1965
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire.
24 February 1955
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II.
08 February 1968
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino.
18 January 1967
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
13 December 1967
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
19 September 1968
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
09 October 1955
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent.
15 June 1950
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
25 December 1958
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.
01 October 1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
29 July 1965
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era.
31 July 1964
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
04 July 1956
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
19 January 1962
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family.
07 July 1960
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.
13 April 1962
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
