Leon Alton
Biography
Leon Alton enjoyed a career on stage, screen, and television starting in the 1920s and lasting until the late 1970s. In the 1930s he started out on the Broadway stage appearing in various musicals which lasted until the early 1940s. Then like many Broadway actors and dancers, he seemingly drifted his way to Hollywood where he was able to use his talents as a dancer to appear in many party scenes in a suit dancing in some of the most well known films. Like many dancers though, that was only part of their work as they could not survive on musicals alone and by the mid 1950s musicals started to lose their popularity so he had to find work elsewhere He was never unemployed long. Alton's appearance was ideal for bankers, or distinguished townsman, or whatever was needed. By the late 1950s, he was able to secure some roles in which he received screen credit in shows like Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, and Lock-Up all while still appearing at the usual party scenes or the social gatherings. By the 1960s his career was still going strong as he still found work in the usual places and managed to appear in several well known movies like True Grit, The Cheyenne Social Club, and Airport and appearing in most of the well known television shows of the time. His career wound down by the 1970s and while his name won't garner the attention or recognition to film audiences of today, most casting directors could tell you it was a name that should be respected and could be depended on.
Filmography

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Watermelon Man

Tora! Tora! Tora!

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Love God?

True Grit

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Sweet Charity

Hellfighters

Funny Girl

Star!

Yours, Mine and Ours

Blackbeard's Ghost

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

Banning

Divorce American Style

Warning Shot

Batman

Our Man Flint

Do Not Disturb

The Cincinnati Kid

Ship of Fools

Brainstorm

Two on a Guillotine

Youngblood Hawke

Kisses for My President

Looking for Love

What a Way to Go!

Marnie

The Best Man

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The Wheeler Dealers

Take Her, She's Mine

Twilight of Honor

Critic's Choice

Days of Wine and Roses

Period of Adjustment

Advise & Consent

The Notorious Landlady

Tender Is the Night

Babes in Toyland

Go Naked in the World

Cimarron

Inherit the Wind

Who Was That Lady?

The Tingler

Holiday for Lovers

The Last Hurrah

Bell, Book and Candle

Party Girl

The Young Stranger

Hollywood or Bust

Somebody Up There Likes Me

The Swan

The Killer Is Loose

Illegal

Three for the Show

New York Confidential

Désirée

Phffft

A Star Is Born

Knock on Wood

Dangerous When Wet

The Juggler

Small Town Girl

The Iron Mistress

Les Miserables

Sirocco

Cry Danger

The Iroquois Trail

Destination Murder

Alias Nick Beal

Caught

So You Want to Be a Salesman

Desperate
