LEON ALTON
ACTING
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.
- College Holiday1936
- Inherit the Wind1960
- Knock on Wood1954
- Days of Wine and Roses1963
- Advise & Consent1962
- Somebody Up There Likes Me1956
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes1969
- Bell, Book and Candle1958
- The Love God?1969
- Batman1966
- Alias Nick Beal1949
- Destination Murder1950
- The Iron Mistress1952
- Blackbeard's Ghost1968
- The Juggler1953
- Small Town Girl1953
- The Swan1956
- Tender Is the Night1962
- Divorce American Style1967
- Our Man Flint1966
- Sweet Charity1969
- Marnie1964
- Looking for Love1964
- Tora! Tora! Tora!1970
- Yours, Mine and Ours1968
- Ship of Fools1965
- The Killer is Loose1956
- Holiday for Lovers1959
- Funny Girl1968
- Desperate1947
- The Young Stranger1957
- The Wheeler Dealers1963
- Period of Adjustment1962
- Party Girl1958
- Star!1968
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks1971
- What a Way to Go!1964
- True Grit1969
- A Star Is Born1954
- Sirocco1951
- Brainstorm1965
- Caught1949
- The Last Hurrah1958
- Hollywood or Bust1956
- Critic's Choice1963
- Do Not Disturb1965
- Cimarron1960
- Take Her, She's Mine1963
- Kisses for My President1964
- The Cincinnati Kid1965
- Babes in Toyland1961
- Les Miserables1952
- Hellfighters1968
- Illegal1955
- Watermelon Man1970
- Who Was That Lady?1960
- Phffft1954
- How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life1968
- The Notorious Landlady1962
- The Incredible Mr. Limpet1964
- Three for the Show1955
- The Best Man1964
- Perry Mason1957
- Perry Mason1957
- The Twilight Zone1959
- Columbo1971