Sheldon Leonard actor
- All known tv series 37
- Total known movies 80
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSheldon Leonard Bershad (February 22, 1907 – January 11, 1997) was an American film and television actor, producer, director, and writer. Sheldon Leonard Bershad was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of middle class Jewish parents Anna Levit and Frank Bershad. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1929.As an actor, Leonard specialized in playing supporting characters, especially gangsters or heavies, in films such as Its a Wonderful Life (1946; as bartender Nick), To Have and Have Not (1944), Guys and Dolls (1955), and Open Secret (1948). His trademark was his especially thick New York accent, usually delivered from the side of his mouth. In Decoy (1946), Leonard uses his heavy persona to create the hard-boiled police detective Joe Portugal.On radio from 1945 to 1955, Leonard played an eccentric racetrack tout on The Jack Benny Program and later in the TV series of the same name. His role was to salute Benny out of the blue in railroad stations, on street corners, or in department stores (Hey Bud. Cmere a minute.), ask Benny what he was about to do, and then proceed to try to argue him out of his course of action by resorting to inane and irrelevant racing logic. As The Tout, he never gave out information on horse racing, unless Jack demanded it. One excuse the tout gave was, Who knows about horses?Leonard was part of the cast of voice actors on the Damon Runyon Theatre radio show (1948-1949). He was part of the ensemble cast of the Martin and Lewis radio show. He also appeared frequently on The Adventures of the Saint, often playing gangsters and heavies, but also sometimes in more positive roles. Leonard was also a regular on the radio comedy series The Adventures of Maisie in the 1940s. During the 1950s, Leonard provided the voice of lazy fat cat Dodsworth in two Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoons directed by Robert McKimson. In the adventure movie The Iroquois Trail (1950), Leonard played against type in the significant role of Chief Ogane, a Native American warrior, who pursues and fights the frontiersman Nat Hawkeye Cutler (George Montgomery) in a climactic duel to the death with knives.Later in the 1950s and 1960s, he established a reputation as a producer of successful television series, including The Danny Thomas Show (aka Make Room For Daddy) (1953–64), The Andy Griffith Show (1960–68), Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. (1964–69), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66), and I Spy (1965–68). He also directed several TV series episodes, including four of the first eight episodes of the TV series Lassie (Season 1, 1954). Leonard also provided the voice of Linus the Lionhearted in a series of Post Crispy Critters cereal TV commercials in 1963-64, which led to a Linus cartoon series that aired on Saturday (and later, Sunday) mornings on CBS (1964–66) and ABC (1967–69). He also was briefly the star of his own television show Big Eddie (1975), where he played the owner of a large sports arena. The show lasted for only ten episodes.
Ace Miller
Movie 1945
Cornell
Movie 1947
Capt. Ferrone
Movie 1945
Joe Marruci
Movie 1942
Fred Stalk
Movie 1947
Auctioneer
Movie 1947
Boris
Movie 1941
Felix Bender
Movie 1946
Detective Sgt. Mike Frontelli
Movie 1948
Ed 'Wires' MacGuire
Movie 1946
Lippy Harris
Movie 1948
Pete Detroit
Movie 1942
Ace Deuce Baker
Movie 1946
Kid Banty (voice) (uncredited)
Movie 1952
Self
Movie 2011
Pasha
Movie 1934
Kirby Haynes
Movie 1946
Rodwell 'Brick' Davis
Movie 1952
Dodsworth (voice) (uncredited)
Movie 1952
Nick Sampson
Movie 1952
Gangster Louis Glorio / The Frisco Ghost
Movie 1943
Mogul
Movie 1953
Chris Williams
Movie 1945
Mickey Jones
Movie 1944
Johnny Brannigan
Movie 1941
Carl Vitale
Movie 1978
Chappie Wilson
Movie 1944
Lucky Maddox
Movie 1945
Abdullah
Movie 1934
Smacksie Golden
Movie 1944
Dalton Kraik
Movie 1949
Harry Bealer
Movie 1948
Paul Lazaro
Movie 1978
John Winton
Movie 1941
Monk LaRue
Movie 1943
LeStrange, the Overseer
Movie 1935
Henri Duval
Movie 1944
Nick Julian
Movie 1948
'Sometime' Smith
Movie 1943
Clairou
Movie 1942
Chink Moran
Movie 1941
George
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2020
Chuck
Movie 1943
Cyprian Boyle
Movie 1945
Self
Movie 1992
Peg Leg
Movie 1945
Hermon
Movie 1948
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1988
Trigger Stazzi
Movie 1946
Self (archival footage)
Movie 1990
Louie
Movie 1947
'Swifty' Lewis
Movie 1948
Tv 1969
Self
Tv 1950
Tv 1979
Dr. Wexler
Tv 1984
Norman Miles
Tv 1964
Harry Martin (uncredited)
Tv 1951
Self
Tv 1962
Tv 1972
Self
Tv 1959
Linus (voice)
Tv 1964
Tv 1953
Disc Jockey
Tv 1965
Self
Tv 1967
Self
Tv 1957
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1973
Sam Marco
Tv 1954
Self
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1962
Self
Tv 1974
