Joseph Leon

Actor

June 8, 1918 (82 years)

† March 25, 2001

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Filmography

7.2

Kojak

Willis Newton

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

6.6

Brewster's Millions

Stamp Store Proprietor

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

7.3

Sophie's Choice

Dr. Blackstock

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

7.5

Hothouse

Mr. Waring

A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.

6.4

Shaft

Byron Leibowitz

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

5.0

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Cab Driver #2

Ann, a former chorus girl marries above herself into a rich society family, but her mother-in-law regards her with great suspicion from the start. When Ann shoots her husband dead, claiming she thought he was a prowler, the older Mrs. Grenville decides to back the woman she despises, to protect the family image.

6.7

Daniel

Selig Mindish

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.

7.6

Sweet Smell of Success

Joe Robard (uncredited)

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

5.5

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Hank

Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. As their marriage suffers, Arthur plans for a way to get his money back, but first he must sober up and get a real job.

6.3

Act One

Max Seigel

This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.

5.2

He Knows You're Alone

Ralph the Tailor

A reluctant bride-to-be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard-boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt the killer down before it is too late.

5.4

The Cool Ones

Carbone

A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?

6.0

Cold Feet

Harold Fenton

When each is unlucky at love, a TV writer-director and a research scientist begin seeing each other.

5.3

My Old Man

Shimmy

An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.

6.0

Skokie

Hershkowitz

A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.

9.0

Almost Partners

Hallery

Molly McCue becomes bored with her quiet, suburban life and fantasizes about becoming a detective. She gets her chance when the urn containing the ashes of her recently departed grandfather is stolen. Molly joins forces with a reluctant New York City police detective who has been assigned to find the missing urn. The two are puzzled over finding a motive for the theft until their case collides with the biggest mystery under investigation in New York City at the time. In the end, a special friendship grows between the two mystery solvers.

5.9

The People Next Door

Price Whitehead

A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.

4.5

Just Tell Me What You Want

Julie Raskin

A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.

8.0

My First Haircut

Barber

Boy has a scary visit to the barber

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