Sheldon Leonard
Highest Rated: 100% Captain Kidd (1945)
Lowest Rated: 55% Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Birthday: Feb 22, 1907
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
This stage and film character player who specialized in Brooklynesque hoods and heavies, both serious and comic, in the 1940s and 50s (including "Harry the Horse" in the 1955 film of "Guys and Dolls") turned innovative, and highly successful TV producer in the mid-50s. Sheldon Leonard began his film career in the 1927 "The Overland Stage," but returned to the real stage until 1939. He then appeared in "Another Thin Man," continuing to act in more than 70 films through the 1970s. Among his better-known were "Weekend in Havana" (1941), "Lucky Jordan" (1942), Howard Hawks' "To Have and Have Not" (1944), Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), as the bartender who throws James Stewart out of his tavern, and "A Pocketful of Miracles" (1961).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy Returns | Executive Producer | - | 1994 |
| 75% | 57% | The Brink's Job | J. Edgar Hoover (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Top Secret | Carl Vitale (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 55% | 72% | Pocketful of Miracles | Steve Darcey (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 91% | 83% | Guys and Dolls | Harry the Horse (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Money From Home | Jumbo Schneider (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stop, You're Killing Me | Lefty (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakdown | Nick Sampson (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here Come the Nelsons | Duke (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 80% | 63% | Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Boots Morgan (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Behave Yourself | Shortwave Bert (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Come Fill the Cup | Lennie Garr (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tomahawk Trail | Chief Ogane (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | My Dream Is Yours | Fred Grimes (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Take One False Step | Detective Harry Pacciano (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daughter of the Jungle | Dalton Kraik (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Knights From Brooklyn |
Louis Glorio/ |
- | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Open Secret | Detective Sgt. Mike Frontelli (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias a Gentleman | Harry Bealer (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Herman (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jinx Money | Lippy Harris (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Violence | Fred Stalk (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 80% | 59% | Sinbad the Sailor | Auctioneer (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fabulous Joe | Louie (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | The Gangster | Cornell (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bowery Bombshell | Ace Deuce Baker (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Decoy | Sgt. Joe Portugal (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 94% | 95% | It's a Wonderful Life | Nick (Character) | $3.3M | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gentleman Misbehaves | Trigger Stazzi (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Kind of Man | Felix Bender (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frontier Gal | 'Blackie' Shoulders (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Zombies on Broadway | Ace Miller (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 100% | 46% | Captain Kidd | Cyprian Boyle (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Why Girls Leave Home | Chris Williams (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Radio Stars on Parade | Lucky Maddox (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Uncertain Glory | Henri Duval (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gambler's Choice | Chappie Wilson (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 95% | 90% | To Have and Have Not | Lt. Coyo (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trocadero | Mickey Jones (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Falcon in Hollywood | Louie Buchanan (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Passport to Suez | Johnny Booth (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harvest Melody | Chuck (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Klondike Kate | "Sometime" Smith (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Taxi, Mister | Glorio (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Tortilla Flat | Tito Ralph (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Street of Chance | Detective Joe Marruci (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born to Sing | Pete Detroit (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucky Jordan | Slip Moran (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tall, Dark and Handsome | Pretty Willie Williams (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Weekend in Havana | Boris (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Married Bachelor | Johnny Branigan (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rise and Shine | Menace (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 86% | 85% | Another Thin Man | Phil Church (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ouanga | LeStrange (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gem of the Ocean | Pasha (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Overland Stage | Jules (Character) | - | 1927 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87% | 94% | Cheers | Sid Nelson (Guest Star) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Facts of Life | Josef Polniaczek (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Littlest Hobo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tattletales | Guest | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. |
Norman Miles (Guest Star), Director, Executive Producer |
1964-1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy |
Unknown (Guest Star), Director, Producer |
1965-1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Morning World |
Creator, Executive Producer |
1967-1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Accidental Family | Executive Producer | 1967-1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Andy Griffith Show |
Executive Producer, Director |
1960 1963-1965 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Dick Van Dyke Show |
Floyd B. Bariscale (Guest Voice), Max Calvada (Guest Star), Director |
1961 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Martian | Director | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joey Bishop Show | Kowalski (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Director | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Burns and Allen Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Married Joan | Golf Pro (Guest Star) | 1952-1953 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Harry Martin (Guest Star) | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1952 |