Leo White
Leo White
A music-hall favorite in his native England, dapper, diminutive Leo White was brought to America by theatrical impresario Daniel Frohman. In 1914, White joined the Essanay film company, where he appeared in support of Wallace Beery in the Sweedie comedies. Within a year he was a member in good standing of Charlie Chaplin's stock company, playing a variety of dandies, noblemen, and anarchists. He moved to Hal Roach's "Rollin'" comedies in 1917, where he co-starred with such funmakers as Harold Lloyd, Harry "Snub" Pollard, Bebe Daniels, and Bud Jamison. White showed up in several features of the 1920s, including Lloyd's Why Worry (1923), Valentino's Blood and Sand (1922), and the mighty Ben-Hur (1926, as Sallanbat). In the talkie era, he played supporting roles in Columbia and RKO two-reel comedies, and bits in features: in the Marx Brothers' Night at the Opera, for example, he's one of the three bearded Russian aviators. From 1934 to 1948, he was on call at Warner Bros. for bits and extra roles. Leo White spent his last decade essaying one-scene roles in such Warner features as Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), and The Fountainhead (1949), and even had a part in the animated Looney Tune Eatin' on the Cuff (1943). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Leo White:
- The Thin Man with William Powell , Myrna Loy , Maureen O'Sullivan , Nat Pendleton , Minna Gombell , Porter Hall , William Henry , Harold Huber , Cesar Romero , Natalie Moorhead , Edward S. Brophy , Edward Ellis , Pat Flaherty , Creighton Hale , Sherry Hall , Edward Hearn , Robert Emmett Homans , Walter Long , Garry Owen , Bert Roach , Rolfe Sedan , Gertrude Short , Ben Taggart , Phil Tead , Harry Tenbrook , Douglas Fowley , John Larkin
- A Night at the Opera with Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx , Kitty Carlisle , Walter Woolf King , Edward Keane , Sig Rumann , Allan Jones , Margaret Dumont , Robert Emmett O'Connor , Al Bridge , Gino Corrado , Billy Gilbert , William Gould , Jonathan Hale , George S. Irving , Selmer Jackson , Wilbur Mack , Marx Brothers , Purnell B. Pratt , Rolfe Sedan , Phillips Smalley , Harry Tyler , Frank Yaconelli , Samuel Marx , George Guhl
- Meet John Doe with Gary Cooper , Barbara Stanwyck , Edward Arnold , Walter Brennan , Spring Byington , James Gleason , Gene Lockhart , Rod LaRocque , Irving Bacon , Regis Toomey , John Farrell MacDonald , Warren B. Hymer , Andrew Tombes , Pierre Watkin , Stanley Andrews , Mitchell Lewis , Charles Wilson , Vaughan Glaser , Sterling Holloway , Mike J. Frankovich , Bennie Bartlett , Edmund Cobb , Gary Cooper , Billy Curtis , Harry Davenport , Vernon Dent , Ann Doran , Edward Earle , Sarah Edwards , Eddie Fetherstone , Pat Flaherty , Bess Flowers , William Forrest , Jack Gardner , William Gould , John Hamilton , Kenneth Harlan , Forrester Harvey , Edward Hearn , John Ince , Selmer Jackson , Frank Jaquet , Eddie Kane , Edward Keane , Hank Mann , Alphonse Martell , Lafe McKee , Edward McWade , James Millican , Frank C. Moran , Gene Morgan , Jack Mower , Forbes Murray , Garry Owen , Paul Panzer , Edward Sr. Peil , Bob Perry , Susan Peters , Hal Price , Jack Richardson , Henry Roquemore , Cliff Saum , Walter Soderling , Wyndham Standing , Edwin Stanley , Charles Trowbridge , Guy Usher , Fredrik Vogeding , Maris Wrixon , George H. Melford , Stanley Price
- The Kennel Murder Case with William Powell , Mary Astor , Eugene Pallette , Ralph Morgan , Helen Vinson , Etienne Girardot , Jack LaRue , Paul Cavanagh , Robert H. Barrat , Henry O'Neill , Robert McWade , Frank Conroy , Spencer Charters , Charles Wilson , Wade Boteler , Don Brodie , James Burke , George Chandler , Arthur Hohl , Milton Kibbee
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