Leon Ames

Ames died in Laguna Beach, California of a stroke. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street. He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, of which he was one of the founding members, from 1957 to 1958. Lionel Barrymore is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. His last role was as Kathleen Turner's grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). Potter, the miserly banker, in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. 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 is perhaps currently best known as Mr.

He is most widely remembered for playing a number of fatherly figures in such titles as Meet Me in St. Years later, after breaking his hip twice, he was confined to a wheelchair, but still acted. Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 - October 12, 1993), born Leon Waycoff, was an American film actor born in Portland, Indiana. He played the irascible Doctor Gillespie in a series of Doctor Kildare and Doctor Gillespie movies in the 1930s and 1940s. He won an Oscar in 1931 for best actor in Free Soul, after having been nominated in 1930 for best director for Madame X. Barrymore made a name for himself on stage before going to Hollywood in 1924.