Gus "Pop" Leonard (February 4, 1859 – March 27, 1939) was an American film actor.
Biography
The French-born actor began his long career on the stage in
San Francisco
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,
California
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, while he was still a child in the 1860s. In later years, he specialised in a drunken waiter act in
vaudeville
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.
Leonard started his film career in 1915 and mostly played supporting roles in slapstick comedies. He appeared in nearly 190 films between 1916 and 1937. He appeared in the '' Our Gang'' comedies: '' Mush and Milk'', '' Teacher's Beau'' and '' The Lucky Corner''. Leonard died of a cerebral hemorrhage in
Los Angeles, California
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Bliss
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Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
''Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley'' is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.
Cast
* Harold Lloyd - Lonesome Luke
* Bebe Daniels - Bebe
* Snub Pol ...
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Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
''Lonesome Luke's Lively Life'' is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Cast
* Harold Lloyd - Lonesome Luke
* Bebe Daniels
* Snub Pollard
* Bud Jamison
* Sidney De Gray
* Charles Stevenson - (as Charles E. Stevenson)
* S ...
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Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
''Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire'' is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
Cast
* Harold Lloyd - Lonesome Luke
* Bebe Daniels
* Snub Pollard
* Bud Jamison
* Charles Stevenson - (as Charles E. Stevenson)
* W.L. Adams
* Estelle Ha ...
Are Crooks Dishonest?
''Are Crooks Dishonest?'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archives of The Museum of Modern Art and Filmoteca Española.
Plot
Con artists Harold (Harold Lloyd) and Snub (Snub P ...
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Somewhere in Turkey
''Somewhere in Turkey'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Plot
A girl (Bebe Daniels) survives a shipwreck. Upon reaching shore, she is apprehended by several soldiers of a sultan who forcibly bring her to him. The ...
The City Slicker
''The City Slicker'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
Plot
Harold arrives in the backward town of Punkville by train to answer a classified ...
Two-Gun Gussie
''Two-Gun Gussie'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Plot
Gussie (Harold Lloyd) is a mild-mannered easterner who finds employment as a piano player in a rowdy western saloon. Dagger-Tooth Dan, the toughest characte ...
On the Jump
''On the Jump'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art. Like many American films of the time, ''On the Jump'' was subject to cuts by city and st ...
Look Pleasant, Please
''Look Pleasant, Please'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film is held by the Museum of Modern Art.
Plot
Bebe is one of a group of females who go to a photographer's studio to have their pictures take ...
Hit Him Again
''Hit Him Again'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. This is now considered to be a lost film.
Cast
* Harold Lloyd as The Boy
* Snub Pollard
* Bebe Daniels
* William Blaisdell
* Sammy Brooks
* Lige Conley (as Lige C ...
His Only Father
''His Only Father'' is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by Hal Roach and Frank Terry, and starring Harold Lloyd. This was the last one-reel short Lloyd worked on before going onto two reelers with his next film "Bumping Into Broadway ...
Count the Votes
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A Jazzed Honeymoon
''A Jazzed Honeymoon'' is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. In this eight-minute short, a newly married couple have adventures on a steamship.
Cast
* Harold Lloyd as The Boy
* Snub Pollard
* Bebe Daniels
* Sammy Brooks
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Just Neighbors
''Just Neighbors'' is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archives at George Eastman House, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Filmoteca Española and the National Film, Television ...
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Spring Fever
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Overview
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Off the Trolley
''Off the Trolley'' is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Plot
Bebe and Snub are employees on a trolley car. Harold sneaks the fare from Bebe's coin dispenser to board the vehicle for the purpose of romantically pursui ...
Going! Going! Gone!
''Going! Going! Gone!'' is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Although this film is presumed lost, versions with French intertitles have been posted on YouTube.
Plot
A group of young ladies are wading in a creek. A cra ...
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Do You Love Your Wife?
''Do You Love Your Wife?'' is a 1919 American film starring Stan Laurel.
Cast
* Stan Laurel as The janitor
* Bunny Bixby
* Mary Burns
* Mildred Forbes
* William Gillespie
* Bud Jamison
* Gus Leonard
* Belle Mitchell
* Marie Mosquini
* Lois Neil ...
Two Minutes to Go
''Two Minutes to Go'' is a 1921 American silent sport comedy-drama film directed by Charles Ray and written by Richard Andres. The film stars Charles Ray, Mary Anderson, Lionel Belmore, Lincoln Stedman, Truman Van Dyke, and Gus Leonard. The f ...
The Deuce of Spades
''The Deuce of Spades'' is a 1922 American comedy film directed by Charles Ray and written by Alfred W. Alley, Richard Andres and Edward Withers. The film stars Charles Ray, Peggy Prevost, Lincoln Plumer, Phil Dunham, Andrew Arbuckle, and Dick ...
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Second Hand Love
''Second Hand Love'' is a 1923 American film directed by William A. Wellman.
Cast
*Buck Jones as Andy Hanks (*as Charles Jones)
*Ruth Dwyer as Angela Trent
* Charles Coleman as Dugg
* Harvey Clark as Scratch, The Detective
*Frank Weed as Deacon ...
The Nickel-Hopper
''The Nickel-Hopper'' is a 1926 American short silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand and featuring Oliver Hardy and Boris Karloff in minor uncredited roles.
Cast
* Mabel Normand as Paddy, the nickel hopper
* Michael Visaroff as Paddy's fa ...
Good Time Charley
''Good Time Charley'' is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film apparently had a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects. It was considered to be a lost film. How ...
The Petrified Forest
''The Petrified Forest'' is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written ...