Sheldon Leonard

Highest Rated:
100% Force of Evil (1948)
Lowest Rated:
63% Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Birthday:
Feb 22, 1907
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
The archetypal side-of-the-mouth Runyonesque gangster, Sheldon Leonard's actual mean-streets experience was confined to travelling with a fairly benign teenaged gang in a New York suburb. In fact, if we are to believe his future business partner Danny Thomas, Leonard never met a bonafide gangster…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 63% - 100%
Number of Movies: 47
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Shadow Of Terror
  • Screenwriter
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1978 The Brink's Job (Big Stickup at Brink's)
  • J. Edgar Hoover
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1978 Top Secret
  • Carl Vitale
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1961 63% Pocketful of Miracles
  • Steve Darcey
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1960 Road to Lebanon
  • Actor
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1955 86% Guys and Dolls
  • Harry the Horse
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1953 Money from Home
  • Jumbo Schneider
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1952 Breakdown
  • Nick Samson
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1952 Here Come the Nelsons
  • Duke
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1951 Behave Yourself
  • Bert
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1951 Come Fill the Cup
  • Lennie Garr
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1951 75% Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
  • Morgan
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1949 My Dream Is Yours
  • Grimes
  • Director
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1948 If You Knew Susie
  • Steve Garland
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1948 100% Force of Evil
  • Ficco
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1948 Open Secret
  • Mike Frontelli
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1947 Fabulous Joe
  • Actor
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1947 80% Sinbad the Sailor
  • Auctioneer
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1947 Violence
  • Fred Stalk
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1947 The Gangster
  • Cornell
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1946 Decoy
  • Sgt. Joseph Portugal
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1946 93% It's a Wonderful Life
  • Nick
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1946 The Last Crooked Mile
  • Ed MacGuire
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1946 89% Somewhere in the Night
  • Sam
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1946 Rainbow Over Texas
  • Kirby Haynes
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1945 100% Captain Kidd
  • Cyprian Boyle
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1945 Crime, Inc.
  • Capt Ferrone
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1945 Why Girls Leave Home
  • Chris Williams
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1944 Zombies on Broadway
  • Ace Miller
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1944 Gambler's Choice
  • Chappie Wilson
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1944 Timber Queen
  • Smacksie
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1944 100% To Have and Have Not
  • Lieutenant Coyo
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1944 Falcon in Hollywood
  • Louie
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1944 Uncertain Glory
  • Henri Duval
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1943 Harvest Melody
  • Chuck
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1943 Passport to Suez
  • Johnny Booth
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1943 City Without Men
  • Monk LaRue
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1943 Hit the Ice
  • "Silky Fellowsby"
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1942 Street of Chance
  • Detective Joe Marucci
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1942 Street of Fire
  • Actor
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1942 Tortilla Flat
  • Tito Ralph
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1942 Two Mugs From Brooklyn
  • Glorio
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1941 Rise And Shine
  • The Menace
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1941 Week-End in Havana
  • Boris
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1939 81% Another Thin Man
  • Phil Church
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1936 Ouanga
  • Actor
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1930 Street of Chance
  • Actor
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Quotes from Sheldon Leonard's Characters

    1. Jean Picard: My head comes off the way it is. [he was being shaved for the guillotine]
    2. Jean Picard: I said it was the floor. Isn't that blunt enough? [when asked about his using a blunt intstrument to kill someone]
    3. Henri Duval: Even if I could, the whole world is asleep.
    4. Louise: You look like you got caught in an air raid.
    5. Henri Duval: I see you helped yourself to my best suit. [Picard was dressed in Duval's suit as he needed a change of clothes]
    6. Drover's Wife: Well, it said coffee on the bag. [her husband Drover asked her what awful coffee he just drank]
    7. Louise: If anyone told me I would take a train clear across France, I'd laugh in his face.
    8. Jean Picard: Then laugh in mine, sweetheart.
    From Uncertain Glory. Submitted by rick b (13 months ago)
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