Leon Errol

Acting

Leon Errol

Born 1881-07-02 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Acting credits

Melody Lane poster
10.0

In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."

Melody Lane

1941

Hollywood Party poster
6.8

Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.

Hollywood Party

1937

Alice in Wonderland poster
6.1

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Alice in Wonderland

1933

No artwork available
NR

Leon's wife and her fellow amateur actors decide to play a joke on Leon, which backfires when he doesn't realize they're acting.

Stage Fright

1938

The Invisible Man's Revenge poster
5.6

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

The Invisible Man's Revenge

1944

No artwork available
NR

Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers. Featuring Bob's funniest moments on television, this tribute includes a virtual who's who of legendary entertainers like Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Newhart, Lucille Ball, Ann-Margret, Jack Benny, Angie Dickinson, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Danny Thomas, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Redd Foxx, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Dyan Cannon, Debbie Reynolds, Lassie and more.

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

No artwork available
6.0

Leon Errol is a befuddled bridegroom about to get hitched to a pretty lass. If he can only get to the church on time.

Nearly Spliced

1921

Paramount on Parade poster
5.9

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Paramount on Parade

1930

Home Work poster
9.0

Leon does his best to elude a process server by taking the day off work to help with the housework. Mrs. Errol meets the server in the street and, thinking he's one of Leon's college pals, invites him home.

Home Work

1942

No artwork available
10.0

Leon Errol is an information wizard at the office but can't answer any of his son's homework questions.

Home Work

Mama Loves Papa poster
10.0

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood, poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground-equipment contract.

Mama Loves Papa

1945

Her Majesty, Love poster
6.7

The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.

Her Majesty, Love

1931

Only Saps Work poster
6.0

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.

Only Saps Work

1930

Counselitis poster
9.0

Leon Errol in court for stealing an umbrella and abusing his wife.

Counselitis

1935

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 poster
7.3

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

1934

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break poster
7.0

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1941

The Notorious Sophie Lang poster
6.7

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.

The Notorious Sophie Lang

1934

Dancing Co-Ed poster
6.6

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.

Dancing Co-Ed

1939

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby poster
4.6

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

1941

Radio Runaround poster
8.0

As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help of a friend, Leon's wife writes a fake letter to a marital advice show that airs on Leon's station. Little does she realize that her letter will set off a chain of complicated misunderstandings.

Radio Runaround

1943

Pretty Dolly poster
8.0

Leon Errol plans to buy a doll as a gift for his wife; misunderstandings ensue.

Pretty Dolly

1942

Make a Wish poster
5.8

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.

Make a Wish

1937

Gals, Incorporated poster
10.0

The story of a nightclub.

Gals, Incorporated

1943

Spooky Wooky poster
10.0

Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to live there, and so, a wacky plan is conceived to make Leon change his mind about moving.

Spooky Wooky

1950