Leander DeCordova
Leander DeCordova
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, distinguished-looking Leander de Cordova began his screen career as an assistant director on such early dramas as the 1916 Francis X. Bushman version of Romeo and Juliet. He later co-directed, with producer G.B. Samuelson, the famous silent version of She (1925) starring Betty Blythe, and was solo director on silent screen actress Mary Philbin's final foray into sound films, the technically crude After the Fog (1929). Although he was credited as dialogue director on the 1930 Tiffany sound production Borrowed Wives and later helmed a cheap Buffalo Bill Jr. oater (Trail of the Golden West [1931]) for the small-scale studio Cosmos, talkies effectively put an end to de Cordova's directorial career. He spent the next two decades as an actor mostly playing bit parts, but remains very visible in two popular serials: Dick Tracy (1937) in which he played Stevens the dock superintendent and to an even higher degree Zorro's Fighting Legion as Felipe one of several imposing council members suspected of being the nefarious megalomaniac Don del Oro. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Leander DeCordova:
- Midnight with Claudette Colbert , Don Ameche , John Barrymore , Francis Lederer , Mary Astor , Elaine Barrie , Hedda Hopper , Rex O'Malley , Monty Woolley , Armand Kaliz , Eugene Borden , Paul Bryar , Eddie Conrad , Gino Corrado , Gennaro Curci , Billy Daniels , Carlos DeValdez , Sarah Edwards , Arno Frey , Charles Judels , Joyce Mathews , Louis Mercier , Ferdinand Munier , Nestor Paiva , Lionel Pape , Harry Semels , Leonard Sues , Michael Visaroff , Bryant Washburn , Joseph DeStefani , William Eddritt , Judith King , Joseph Romantini
- Gilda with Rita Hayworth , Glenn Ford , George MacReady , Joseph Calleia , Steven Geray , Joseph Sawyer , Gerald Mohr , Robert Scott , Ludwig Donath , Donald Douglas , Lionel Royce , S.Z. Martel , George J. Lewis , Rosa Rey , Sam Appel , Sam Ash , Nina Bara , Eugene Borden , Argentina Brunetti , Jack Chefe , Eduardo Ciannelli , Jean DeBriac , Jean DelVal , Fernanda Eliscu , Herbert Evans , Sam Flint , Lew Harvey , Ted Hecht , Ernest Hilliard , George Humbert , Robert Kellard , Frank Leigh , Leon Lenoir , Alphonse Martell , John Merton , Forbes Murray , Joseph Palmas , Albert Pollet , Ruth Roman , Cosmo Sardo , George Sorel , John Tyrrell , Philip vanZandt , Erno Verebes , Russ Vincent , Robert Stevens , Robert Tafur , Jack DelRio , Frank Leyva , Jerry DeCastro , Carli Elinor , Fred Godoy , Oscar Loraine , Herman Marks , Ralph Navarro , Alfred Paix , Rodolfo Hoyos , Paul Bradley
- A Double Life with Whit Bissell , Ronald Colman , Betsy Blair , Signe Hasso , David Bond , Edmond O'Brien , Harlan Briggs , Shelley Winters , Georgia Caine , Ray Collins , Claire Carleton , Philip Loeb , John Drew Colt , Leslie Denison , Elizabeth Dunne , Alan Edmiston , Arthur E. Gould-Porter , Wilton Graff , Boyd Irwin , Fay Kanin , Charles LaTorre , Millard Mitchell , Virginia Patton , Guy Bates Post , Elliott Reid , Thayer Roberts , Joseph Sawyer , Art Smith , Peter Thompson , Sid Tomack , Percival Vivian , Janet Warren , Marjorie Woodworth , Frederic Worlock , Mary Young , William Norton Bailey , Joseph Bernard , Laura Kasley Brooks , Angela Clarke , Curt Conway , Russ Conway , Nick Dennis , Joann Dolan , George Douglas , Fernanda Eliscu , Beatrice Gray , Ethel May Halls , Fred Hoose , Charles Jordan , Robert Emmett Keane , Hazel Keener , Elmo Lincoln , Barry Macollum , Joyce Mathews , Walter McGrail , Carl Milletaire , Howard M. Mitchell , Harry Hays Morgan , Albert Pollet , Joey Ray , Buddy Roosevelt , Sarah Selby , Jamesson Shade , George Sherwood , Mike Stokey , Mary Worth , Paddy Chayefsky , John Derek , John Morgan , Harry Bannister , Watson Downs , Diane Stewart , Reginald Billado , Alexander Clark , Maude Fealy , Nina Gilbert , Doretta Johnson , Kay Lavelle , Katherine Marlowe , Don McGill , Bruce Riley , Elektra Rozanska , Pete Sosso , Cedric Stevens , Wayne Treadway , Frank Richards
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