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Known For: Acting
Born: August 23, 1907
Place of Birth: New York, USA
Died: August 25, 1995

Leon Alton

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, Tomb…

Filmography

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

1972 · Executive (uncredited)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

1971 · Soldier at Portobello Road (uncredited)

Columbo

1971 · Theatre Patron (uncredited)

The Partridge Family

1970 · Audience Member (uncredited)

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970 · Barfly (uncredited)

Watermelon Man

1970 · Pedestrian (uncredited)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · Official (uncredited)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

1969 · Collingsgood Associate (uncredited)

The Love God?

1969 · Club Patron (uncredited)

True Grit

1969 · Boarding House Guest (uncredited)

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

1969 · Man in Ticket Line (uncredited)

Sweet Charity

1969 · Dancer (uncredited)

The Love Bug

1968 · Official (uncredited)

Hellfighters

1968 · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Funny Girl

1968 · Audience Member (uncredited)

Star!

1968 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Never a Dull Moment

1968 · Exhibit Guest (uncredited)

Yours, Mine and Ours

1968 · Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968 · Auction Guest

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968 · Bartender (uncredited)

Banning

1967 · Club Member (uncredited)

Cimarron Strip

1967 · Barfly (uncredited)

Divorce American Style

1967 · Bank Officer (uncredited)

Warning Shot

1967

Batman

1966 · Official (uncredited)

Our Man Flint

1966 · Military Officer at Meeting (uncredited)

Batman

1966 · Party Guest (uncredited), Policeman (uncredited), Art Gallery Patron (uncredited), Police Officer (uncredited)

Do Not Disturb

1965 · Party Guest (uncredited)

The Cincinnati Kid

1965 · Poker Game Spectator (uncredited)

Get Smart

1965 · Chief (uncredited)

Ship of Fools

1965 · Ship Passenger (uncredited)

The Great Race

1965 · Townsman (uncredited)

Brainstorm

1965 · Spectator (uncredited)

Two on a Guillotine

1965 · Theatre Audience Member (uncredited)

Youngblood Hawke

1964 · Man With Newspapers (uncredited)

Kisses for My President

1964 · Burlesque Show Spectator (uncredited)

Looking for Love

1964 · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Marnie

1964 · Party Guest (uncredited)

What a Way to Go!

1964 · Awards Ceremony Guest (uncredited)

The Best Man

1964 · Russell Supporter (uncredited)

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

1964 · Officer at Fleet Admiral's Meeting (uncredited)

A Global Affair

1964 · Delegate (uncredited)

The Wheeler Dealers

1963 · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Take Her, She's Mine

1963 · Man at Airport (uncredited)

Twilight of Honor

1963 · Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Burke's Law

1963 · Waiter (uncredited)

Arrest and Trial

1963 · Judge (uncredited)

The Thrill of It All

1963 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Critic's Choice

1963 · Audience Member (uncredited)

Days of Wine and Roses

1963 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Period of Adjustment

1962 · Visitor at Station (uncredited)

Advise & Consent

1962 · Senator (uncredited)

The Notorious Landlady

1962 · Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Sergeants 3

1962 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Tender Is the Night

1962 · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Babes in Toyland

1961 · Villager (uncredited)

Go Naked in the World

1961 · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Cimarron

1960 · Townsman at Celebration (uncredited)

Inherit the Wind

1960 · Townsman (uncredited)

Who Was That Lady?

1960 · Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

The Untouchables

1959 · Race Spectator (uncredited)

Bourbon Street Beat

1959 · Passerby (uncredited)

The Twilight Zone

1959 · Bartender (uncredited)

Bonanza

1959 · Delegate (uncredited)

The Tingler

1959 · Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Holiday for Lovers

1959 · Party guest

The Last Hurrah

1958 · Banquet Guest (uncredited)

Bell, Book and Candle

1958 · Club Patron (uncredited)

Party Girl

1958 · Police Officer (uncredited)

Alcoa Theatre

1957 · Reporter (uncredited)

Perry Mason

1957 · Court Stenographer (uncredited), Juror (uncredited)

The Young Stranger

1957 · Peter Kalish (uncredited)

Hollywood or Bust

1956 · Casino Patron

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956 · Fight Spectator (uncredited)

The Swan

1956 · Ball Attendee

Forever, Darling

1956 · Waiter (uncredited)

The Killer Is Loose

1956 · Bank Robber (uncredited)

Illegal

1955 · Court Clerk (uncredited)

Cheyenne

1955 · Senate Gallery Spectator (uncredited)

Three for the Show

1955 · Bit Role (uncredited)

New York Confidential

1955

Désirée

1954 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Phffft

1954 · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

A Star Is Born

1954 · Usher (uncredited)

Executive Suite

1954 · Bartender (uncredited)

Lucky Me

1954 · Man at Ladder (uncredited)

Knock on Wood

1954 · Bellhop

Dangerous When Wet

1953 · Spectator at Photoshoot (uncredited)

The Juggler

1953 · Bus Driver (uncredited)

Small Town Girl

1953 · Townsman

The Mississippi Gambler

1953 · Fencing Student (uncredited)

Niagara

1953 · Lodge Guest (uncredited)

The Iron Mistress

1952 · Riverboat Passenger

Les Miserables

1952 · Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Sirocco

1951 · Soldier (uncredited)

Cry Danger

1951 · Bartender (uncredited)

The Iroquois Trail

1950 · Officer (uncredited)

Destination Murder

1950 · Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)

Alias Nick Beal

1949 · Supporter

Caught

1949 · Cafe Customer (uncredited)

So You Want to Be a Salesman

So You Want to Be a Salesman

1947 · Salesman (uncredited)

Desperate

1947 · Bus Passenger (uncredited)

College Holiday

1936 · Dancer

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