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Leon Ames More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

20 January 1902, Portland, Indiana, USA

Date of Death

12 October 1993, Laguna Beach, California, USA (stroke)

Birth Name

Leon Waycoff

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse

Christine Gossett

(1938 - 12 October 1993) (his death) 2 children

Trivia

Had two children: Shelley and Leon.

Son of Russian immigrants.

President of Screen Actors Guild (SAG). [1957-1958]

In the 1960s, he owned 4 California Ford dealerships. They were located in Studio City, Encino, Redondo Beach, on Pacific Coast Highway near Prospect, and Los Angeles. In the latter part of the 1970's Leon Ames Ford was sold/bought out by Payton Craymer Ford. This in turn was sold to Power Ford. The Redondo Beach dealership closed and was moved further up the Pacific Coast highway towards Lomita. The Los Angeles dealership remains in business today and is now called "Midway Ford". It's located at 200 N. Vermont.

In June of 1933 Ames, with 18 other actors, held a meeting to organize the Screen Actors Guild. He held SAG card number 15.

Appeared sporadically on Broadway from late 1933-1958.

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