Leon Ames

Ames died in Laguna Beach, California of a stroke. His fourth wife was Elaine Barrie (née Elaine Jacobs, 1916-2003), an actress; they married on November 9, 1936 and divorced in 1940. He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, of which he was one of the founding members, from 1957 to 1958. They had two children, Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore and John Drew Barrymore (father of Drew Barrymore). His last role was as Kathleen Turner's grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). His third wife was Dolores Costello (1903-1979), an actress and model best known for her role as Dearest in the movie Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); they married on November 24, 1928 and divorced in 1935. Louis (1944), Little Women (1949), and the 1950s sitcom Life with Father, but also appeared in notable roles in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and Peyton Place (1957). He married Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (1890-1950), a bisexual New York real estate heiress who wrote under the name Michael Strange, on August 5, 1920 and divorced her in 1928.

He is most widely remembered for playing a number of fatherly figures in such titles as Meet Me in St. They had one child, Diana Blanche Barrymore. Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 - October 12, 1993), born Leon Waycoff, was an American film actor born in Portland, Indiana. Barrymore married Katherine Corri Harris (1891-1927), an actress who starred in the 1918 film The House of Mirth, on September 1, 1910 and divorced in 1916. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.". His dying words were "Die? I should say not, dear fellow.