Leon Ames
13 titles
Filmography
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East Side Kids
(1940)After being falsely accused of murder, a group of kids have to find the real killer to clear their name and save their junior police club.

Cipher Bureau
(1938)The younger brother of a government codebreaker gets entangled in a dangerous espionage mission with international spies and a beautiful double agent.

Alimony Madness
(1933)Joan Armstrong is put on trial when the gold-digging ex-wife of her husband winds up dead after a confrontation about her exorbitant alimony payments.

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
(1964)A bright college student applies his newly-acquired knowledge of hypnotism - with some near-disastrous results.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1932)Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue is a haunting atmospheric classic starring horror icon Bela Lugosi (Dracula). Deranged scientist Dr. Mirakle (Lugosi) searches Paris for a prospective bride for his pet gorilla. Inviting young ladies to his sinister laboratory, he injects his victims with gorillas’ blood and then disposes of their ravaged bodies through an ingenious trapdoor. After Dr. Mirakle settles on a beautiful young woman (Sidney Fox), he kidnaps her with the intent to make her his gorilla's mate. It is now a race against time for her fiancé (Leon Ames) to save her. Heavily influenced by the German Expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this classic favorite is the perfect blend of evolutionary science and horror.

The Monkey's Uncle
(1965)A bright student is able to save Midvale College's football reputation when he uses his invention, a sleep-learning machine, to stimulate the intellect of two football players in danger of being scrubbed from the team due to poor grades.

Undercover Maisie
(1947)Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) decides to join the Los Angeles police force. This she does primarily to be near her latest beau, Lt. Paul Scott (Barry Nelson). After an amusingly grueling training session, our heroine goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of confidence tricksters, headed by phony swami Willis Farnes (Leon Ames).

Watch the Birdie
(1950)Not one, not two, but three Red Skeltons zig-zag through this madcap adventure and turn Watch the Birdie into a real treat! The crown prince of clownery flusters his way through high jinks involving three beautiful women and two suave crooks, making this story of a bumbling photographer one picture-perfect film. Trying to raise enough money to save his camera store from foreclosure, Rusty Cameron (Skelton) rents a newsreel camera and goes hunting for a story. Encouraged by his father (also played by Skelton) and teased by his grandfather (Skelton again!), Rusty plunges forward and nearly drowns in the harbor. Rescued by a beautiful and lonely heiress (Arlene Dahl) and tempted by the gorgeous Ann Miller, Rusty lands in the middle of a villainous plot that has just the right touches of romance and pratfalls – with Rusty, of course, saving the girl and the day!

The Absent-Minded Professor
(1961)A bumbling professor invents gravity-defying Flubber.

Scene of the Crime
(1949)While his wife urges him to quit the force, a Los Angeles homicide detective works to solve the murder of his old partner with ties to local bookies.

Jake Speed
(1986)A pulp fiction character comes to life to help a young woman save her sister from a slavery ring operating in Africa.

Son of Flubber
(1963)A professor wreaks havoc with a mysterious substance.

On an Island with You
(1948)Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse, and bandleader Xavier Cugat star in this highly successful musical comedy. Actress Rosalind Rennolds is shooting a song-and-dance film in Hawaii when a young Navy lieutenant is brought onto the production as a technical advisor. Having once performed a number with her in an Armed Forces show, the young officer is convinced he and Rennolds should be together--so he spirits her away to a desert island.