Leon Ames
Eyaziwa Nge: Acting
Usuku lokuzalwa: 1902-01-20
Indawo yokuzalwa: Portland, Indiana, USA
Obeye aziwe njengo: Leon Waycoff, Harry Leon Wycoff, Harry L. Wycoff
Meet Me in St. Louis
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Khulula : 1944.11.28Ukuthandwa : 8.34
Lady in the Lake
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...
Khulula : 1946.12.19Ukuthandwa : 9.914
Angel Face
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Khulula : 1953.01.02Ukuthandwa : 12.97
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Khulula : 1970.01.26Ukuthandwa : 14.739
East Side Kids
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...
Khulula : 1940.02.10Ukuthandwa : 2.774
Battleground
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944....
Khulula : 1949.11.09Ukuthandwa : 8.112
Secrets of a Nurse
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true...
Khulula : 1938.12.02Ukuthandwa : 6.358
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only...
Khulula : 1938.03.25Ukuthandwa : 14.791
Just You and Me, Kid
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
Khulula : 1979.07.13Ukuthandwa : 2.056
The Postman Always Rings Twice
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Khulula : 1946.05.02Ukuthandwa : 7.99
Sherlock Holmes in New York
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old...
Khulula : 1976.10.18Ukuthandwa : 5.619
Fugitive at Large
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because...
Khulula : 1939.12.07Ukuthandwa : 1.73
Murders in the Rue Morgue
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets...
Khulula : 1932.01.27Ukuthandwa : 7.773
The Velvet Touch
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Khulula : 1948.07.13Ukuthandwa : 2.183
On Moonlight Bay
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives...
Khulula : 1951.07.26Ukuthandwa : 4.789
Dial 1119
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of...
Khulula : 1950.11.03Ukuthandwa : 3.074
Mysterious Mr. Moto
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Khulula : 1938.09.17Ukuthandwa : 2.895
The Thin Man Goes Home
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Khulula : 1944.12.24Ukuthandwa : 6.322
Song of the Thin Man
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Khulula : 1947.08.28Ukuthandwa : 8.762
From the Terrace
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his...
Khulula : 1960.07.15Ukuthandwa : 5.904
The Iron Major
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching...
Khulula : 1943.10.31Ukuthandwa : 1.048
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...
Khulula : 1949.03.10Ukuthandwa : 10.83
On an Island with You
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once...
Khulula : 1948.05.03Ukuthandwa : 4.831
Peyton Place
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which...
Khulula : 1957.12.13Ukuthandwa : 6.255
Yolanda and the Thief
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to...
Khulula : 1945.11.22Ukuthandwa : 3.353
Scene of the Crime
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Khulula : 1949.07.28Ukuthandwa : 3.146
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to...
Khulula : 1937.09.22Ukuthandwa : 4.12
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments...
Khulula : 1964.03.25Ukuthandwa : 2.897
The Absent-Minded Professor
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a...
Khulula : 1961.03.16Ukuthandwa : 12.795
Pilot X
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark...
Khulula : 1936.12.01Ukuthandwa : 3.658
They Were Expendable
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...
Khulula : 1945.12.07Ukuthandwa : 16.545
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by...
Khulula : 1941.11.18Ukuthandwa : 1.082
Crisis
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Khulula : 1950.07.07Ukuthandwa : 2.382
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and...
Khulula : 1953.03.26Ukuthandwa : 5.636
Rescue Squad
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an...
Khulula : 1935.05.15Ukuthandwa : 1.804
Crime Doctor
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading...
Khulula : 1943.06.22Ukuthandwa : 7.473
It's a Big Country
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best...
Khulula : 1951.11.20Ukuthandwa : 2.351
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find...
Khulula : 1939.04.07Ukuthandwa : 3.076
Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...
Khulula : 1945.10.04Ukuthandwa : 1.679
A Date with Judy
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship...
Khulula : 1948.07.29Ukuthandwa : 4.086
Thunder Afloat
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Khulula : 1939.09.15Ukuthandwa : 2.374
Sabre Jet
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner...
Khulula : 1953.09.04Ukuthandwa : 1.033
Any Number Can Play
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it...
Khulula : 1949.07.15Ukuthandwa : 3.211
Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...
Khulula : 1947.10.11Ukuthandwa : 4.064
The Happy Years
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896,...
Khulula : 1950.07.07Ukuthandwa : 4.626
Toklat
A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from...
Khulula : 1971.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.506
The Meal
A rich Florida woman (Dina Merrill) invites big shots to a banquet, then watches with a friend (Carl Betz) as they destroy one another.
Khulula : 1975.10.01Ukuthandwa : 2.18
Cattle Drive
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and...
Khulula : 1951.08.01Ukuthandwa : 5.552
The Cockeyed Miracle
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
Khulula : 1946.10.26Ukuthandwa : 1.062
Fall Guy
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
Khulula : 1945.04.14Ukuthandwa : 1.293
Soak the Poor
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices...
Khulula : 1937.08.21Ukuthandwa : 2.96
Island in the Sky
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Khulula : 1938.04.01Ukuthandwa : 2.233
Now I'll Tell
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by...
Khulula : 1934.06.07Ukuthandwa : 5.896
Uptown New York
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from...
Khulula : 1932.11.27Ukuthandwa : 1.277
The Great Morgan
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...
Khulula : 1945.01.01Ukuthandwa : 3.779
Strangers All
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Khulula : 1935.04.01Ukuthandwa : 2.654
Brother of the Wind
A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.
Khulula : 1973.01.31Ukuthandwa : 1.509
Let's Do It Again
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The...
Khulula : 1953.06.16Ukuthandwa : 9.221
Undercover Maisie
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants...
Khulula : 1947.03.01Ukuthandwa : 5.878
Engagement Party
Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."
Khulula : 1956.01.01Ukuthandwa : 0.891
Claws
A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris...
Khulula : 1977.01.01Ukuthandwa : 2.188
International Settlement
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Khulula : 1938.02.04Ukuthandwa : 2.698
Get That Man
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
Khulula : 1935.07.10Ukuthandwa : 0.916
Pack Up Your Troubles
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Khulula : 1939.10.24Ukuthandwa : 1.217
The Big Hangover
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
Khulula : 1950.05.26Ukuthandwa : 4.208
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the...
Khulula : 1947.08.30Ukuthandwa : 3.339
Between Two Women
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Khulula : 1945.03.28Ukuthandwa : 1.664
Watch the Birdie
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Khulula : 1950.12.11Ukuthandwa : 2.236
Panama Patrol
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
Khulula : 1939.03.20Ukuthandwa : 3.137
Reckless
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Khulula : 1935.04.19Ukuthandwa : 3.3
No Greater Sin
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health...
Khulula : 1941.08.29Ukuthandwa : 1.136
The Monkey's Uncle
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design,...
Khulula : 1965.08.18Ukuthandwa : 3.571
Anchors Aweigh
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl...
Khulula : 1945.08.13Ukuthandwa : 14.452
Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Khulula : 1938.10.28Ukuthandwa : 5.315
Forgotten
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws'...
Khulula : 1933.02.14Ukuthandwa : 3.906
Risky Business
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Khulula : 1939.03.03Ukuthandwa : 1.716
Alias a Gentleman
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Khulula : 1948.02.03Ukuthandwa : 0.554
Parachute Jumper
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Khulula : 1933.01.28Ukuthandwa : 5.065
Jake Speed
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves...
Khulula : 1986.05.30Ukuthandwa : 4.816
I'll Tell the World
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career,...
Khulula : 1934.04.20Ukuthandwa : 1.781
Help Wanted
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
Khulula : 1939.06.10Ukuthandwa : 1.514
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Khulula : 1974.06.21Ukuthandwa : 4.773
The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall...
Khulula : 1932.04.19Ukuthandwa : 5.162
Testament
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...
Khulula : 1983.11.04Ukuthandwa : 8.132
Blackwell's Island
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Khulula : 1939.01.24Ukuthandwa : 3.038
The Marshal Of Mesa City
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Khulula : 1939.11.03Ukuthandwa : 3.559
Ambush
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Khulula : 1950.01.13Ukuthandwa : 8.298
Ship of Wanted Men
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the...
Khulula : 1933.09.08Ukuthandwa : 1.417
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
Khulula : 1950.06.29Ukuthandwa : 1.332
Calling All Marines
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Khulula : 1939.09.20Ukuthandwa : 2.131
The Man Who Dared
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect...
Khulula : 1933.06.30Ukuthandwa : 3.05
Dangerously Yours
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with...
Khulula : 1937.09.21Ukuthandwa : 4.563
No Leave, No Love
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he...
Khulula : 1946.03.10Ukuthandwa : 2.421
Cipher Bureau
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Khulula : 1938.10.25Ukuthandwa : 1.361
The Show-Off
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
Khulula : 1946.12.01Ukuthandwa : 1.695
Come On, Leathernecks!
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Khulula : 1938.08.08Ukuthandwa : 1.561
I Was a Convict
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...
Khulula : 1939.03.06Ukuthandwa : 1.731
Code of the Streets
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis,...
Khulula : 1939.04.13Ukuthandwa : 2.183
Legion of Lost Flyers
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running...
Khulula : 1939.11.02Ukuthandwa : 2.12
Peggy Sue Got Married
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Khulula : 1986.10.10Ukuthandwa : 11.705
Alimony Madness
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Khulula : 1933.03.31Ukuthandwa : 1.808
Quick Millions
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a...
Khulula : 1931.04.17Ukuthandwa : 6.228
Son of Lassie
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
Khulula : 1945.04.20Ukuthandwa : 7.055
Hammersmith Is Out
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient...
Khulula : 1972.05.12Ukuthandwa : 2.508
A Successful Calamity
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy...
Khulula : 1932.09.17Ukuthandwa : 4.889
Son of Flubber
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he...
Khulula : 1963.01.16Ukuthandwa : 12.231
The Spy Ring
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get...
Khulula : 1938.01.08Ukuthandwa : 1.379
George Washington Slept Here
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in...
Khulula : 1942.10.30Ukuthandwa : 2.78
Stowaway
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and...
Khulula : 1932.03.01Ukuthandwa : 1.221
Walking Down Broadway
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...
Khulula : 1938.03.11Ukuthandwa : 1.815
Murder in Greenwich Village
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a...
Khulula : 1937.11.03Ukuthandwa : 1.844
Song of Revolt
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
Khulula : 1937.05.29Ukuthandwa : 2.014
Mutiny Ahead
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
Khulula : 1935.03.01Ukuthandwa : 1.981
The Best Place to Be
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much...
Khulula : 1979.05.27Ukuthandwa : 2.445
That's My Boy
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders...
Khulula : 1932.11.13Ukuthandwa : 1.522
Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...
Khulula : 1933.11.01Ukuthandwa : 1.476
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her...
Khulula : 1970.06.17Ukuthandwa : 7.683
Timber Tramps
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Khulula : 1975.12.31Ukuthandwa : 1.789
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the...
Khulula : 1944.11.15Ukuthandwa : 11.223
45 Fathers
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Khulula : 1937.11.26Ukuthandwa : 1.472