Leon Janney

Leon Janney

Born: April 1, 1917
Died: October 28, 1980
in Ogden, Utah, USA

Movies for Leon Janney...

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Title: How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Character: Mr. McCarthy
Released: January 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up in big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to the Catskills, to Boston, New York, Miami, and Rome.
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Charly
Title: Charly
Character: Dr. Richard Nemur
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: Movie
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Pat Callahan
Released: February 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
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Stolen Paradise
Title: Stolen Paradise
Character: Richard 'Dick' Gordon
Released: December 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Gordon, a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his step-sister, Patricia Morrow, ten years his senior. He runs away and joins the R.A.F. Shot down in battle, he is rescued and taken to a monastery where he renounces the world to study for the priesthood.
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Police Court
Title: Police Court
Character: Nathaniel "Junior" Barry Jr.
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Penrod Schofield
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
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Their Mad Moment
Title: Their Mad Moment
Character: Narcio
Released: July 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
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Father's Son
Title: Father's Son
Character: Bill Emory
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
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The Costume Falls
Title: The Costume Falls
Released: February 5, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.
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The Doorway to Hell
Title: The Doorway to Hell
Character: Jackie Lamarr
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Old English
Title: Old English
Character: Jock
Released: August 12, 1930
Type: Movie
An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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Bear Shooters
Title: Bear Shooters
Character: Donald 'Spud'
Released: May 16, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Eddie Lesser as a Boy
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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The Wind
Title: The Wind
Character: Cora's Child
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
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The Elephant's Elbows
Title: The Elephant's Elbows
Character: Johnny Smith
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
An angry man gets his ass kicked by a kid and his many animals.