Leon Ames

Ames died in Laguna Beach, California of a stroke. See also Freddie Bartholomew (cocktail). He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, of which he was one of the founding members, from 1957 to 1958. Freddie Bartholomew has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to motion pictures, at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard. His last role was as Kathleen Turner's grandfather in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). He died from emphysema in Sarasota, Florida. 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). Shortly before his death he allowed an interview for the television documentary MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992).

He is most widely remembered for playing a number of fatherly figures in such titles as Meet Me in St. Bartholomew was said to have been bitter over his lost fortune and his experiences in Hollywood, but by the early 1980s he was working as a producer for the soap opera As The World Turns. Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 - October 12, 1993), born Leon Waycoff, was an American film actor born in Portland, Indiana. He established a career in advertising and distanced himself from Hollywood. He continued acting into the 1940s but was much less popular as a teenaged actor, and by the early 1950s had retired from film. A protracted legal battle saw much of the wealth Bartholomew had amassed, spent on legal fees.