Leslie Fenton

Leslie Fenton

1902-03-12 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK 74 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leslie Fenton (12 March 1902 – 25 March 1978) was an English-born American actor and film director. He appeared in 62 films between 1923 and 1945. Fenton was born on 12 March 1902 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He moved to America with his mother, Elizabeth Carter, and his brothers when he was six years old. They sailed as steerage passengers on board the R.M.S. Celtic. As a teenager, Leslie worked as an office clerk. He moved to New York and began a ...

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The Redhead and The Cowboy

The Redhead and The Cowboy

1951

Director

4.9
Directing

Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Can...

Streets of Laredo

Streets of Laredo

1949

Director

5.9
Directing

Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lor...

Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith

1948

Director

6.5
Directing

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go ...

Lulu Belle

Lulu Belle

1948

Director

4.8
Directing

Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his f...

On Our Merry Way

On Our Merry Way

1948

Director

5.5
Directing

Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the ...

Saigon

Saigon

1947

Director

5.6
Directing

After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable fl...

Pardon My Past

Pardon My Past

1945

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

Tomorrow, the World!

Tomorrow, the World!

1944

Director

7.9
Directing

German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

The Saint's Vacation

The Saint's Vacation

1941

Director

5.5
Directing

While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing

1940

Director

5.3
Directing

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The Man from Dakota

The Man from Dakota

1940

Director

5.3
Directing

A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

Stronger Than Desire

Stronger Than Desire

1939

Director

5.8
Directing

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales

1939

Director

5.3
Directing

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Boys Town

Boys Town

1938

as Dan Farrow

6.7
Acting

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being tre...

A Criminal Is Born

A Criminal Is Born

1938

Director

8.0
Directing

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a...

The Forgotten Step

The Forgotten Step

1938

Director

Directing

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth throug...

Miracle Money

Miracle Money

1938

Director

5.6
Directing

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.

Captain Kidd's Treasure

Captain Kidd's Treasure

1938

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A...

Captain Kidd's Treasure

Captain Kidd's Treasure

1938

Director

5.0
Directing

In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A...

Soak the Poor

Soak the Poor

1937

as Nick Garvey

7.0
Acting

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices ...

China Passage

China Passage

1937

as Anthony Durand

5.5
Acting

Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on succes...

The House of Secrets

The House of Secrets

1936

as Barry Wilding

5.2
Acting

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

The Longest Night

The Longest Night

1936

as Carl Briggs

5.7
Acting

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

Sworn Enemy

Sworn Enemy

1936

as Steve Sherman

5.3
Acting

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Murder on a Bridle Path

Murder on a Bridle Path

1936

as Don Gregg

5.3
Acting

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a t...

Two in the Dark

Two in the Dark

1936

as Stuart Eldredge

5.9
Acting

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) conne...

White Lies

White Lies

1935

as Dan Oliver

6.0
Acting

A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is i...

East of Java

East of Java

1935

as Captain Wong Bo

6.0
Acting

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

Men Without Names

Men Without Names

1935

as Monk

6.0
Acting

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Chinatown Squad

Chinatown Squad

1935

as Su Quong

6.0
Acting

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Stolen Harmony

Stolen Harmony

1935

as Joe Harris (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks...

Star of Midnight

Star of Midnight

1935

as Tim Winthrop

6.0
Acting

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

The Casino Murder Case

The Casino Murder Case

1935

as Dr. Kane

6.5
Acting

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the ...

Strange Wives

Strange Wives

1934

as Svengaart

Acting

When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

Marie Galante

Marie Galante

1934

as General Saki Tenoki

4.5
Acting

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt l...

Fugitive Road

Fugitive Road

1934

as Frank Riker

Acting

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.

Take the Stand

Take the Stand

1934

as Hugh Halliburton

4.7
Acting

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

I Believed in You

I Believed in You

1934

as Russell Storm

Acting

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon fi...

Lady Killer

Lady Killer

1933

as Duke

6.8
Acting

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Night Flight

Night Flight

1933

as Jules' Radio Operator / Co-Pilot

5.8
Acting

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

F.P.1

F.P.1

1933

as Capt. B.E. Droste

6.4
Acting

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in t...

Air Mail

Air Mail

1932

as Tony Dressel

5.5
Acting

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

Thunder Below

Thunder Below

1932

as Webb

Acting

Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps...

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

1932

as Nick 'Nicky' Grant

5.9
Acting

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

The Famous Ferguson Case

The Famous Ferguson Case

1932

as Perrin

6.0
Acting

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...

The Hatchet Man

The Hatchet Man

1932

as Harry En Hai

4.9
Acting

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

The Guilty Generation

The Guilty Generation

1931

as Joe Palmero

6.1
Acting

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

The Pagan Lady

The Pagan Lady

1931

as Gerald 'Gerry' Willis

2.5
Acting

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on ...

Murder at Midnight

Murder at Midnight

1931

as Walter Grayson

5.4
Acting

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...

Kick In

Kick In

1931

as Charlie

6.0
Acting

Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for...

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

1931

as Samuel 'Nails' Nathan

7.2
Acting

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo...

The Man Who Came Back

The Man Who Came Back

1931

as Baron le Duc

3.5
Acting

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable ma...

Dynamite

Dynamite

1929

as Young 'Vulture'

6.4
Acting

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will ...

The Last Performance

The Last Performance

1929

as Buffo

6.2
Acting

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns ...

Woman Trap

Woman Trap

1929

as Eddie Evans

4.8
Acting

The younger brother of a police captain is a wanted fugitive, so when the captain railroads his brother's former criminal partner, the partner's siste...

Paris Bound

Paris Bound

1929

as Richard Parrish

5.0
Acting

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a...

Broadway

Broadway

1929

as 'Scar' Edwards

5.6
Acting

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

The Man I Love

The Man I Love

1929

as Carlo Vesper

4.0
Acting

Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Ba...

A Dangerous Woman

A Dangerous Woman

1929

as Peter Allerton

3.7
Acting

The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns th...

The Office Scandal

The Office Scandal

1929

as Andrew 'Andy' Corbin

Acting

Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.

The First Kiss

The First Kiss

1928

as Carol Talbot

Acting

The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, an...

The Drag Net

The Drag Net

1928

as Shakespeare

6.0
Acting

Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first act, rounds up every criminal in town. Gang boss '...

The Showdown

The Showdown

1928

as Kilgore Shelton

Acting

Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

The Gateway of the Moon

The Gateway of the Moon

1928

as Jim Mortlake

Acting

To prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ruthless construction crew foreman, attempts to kill...

What Price Glory

What Price Glory

1926

as Lt. Moore

6.0
Acting

U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings the...

Black Paradise

Black Paradise

1926

as James Callahan

4.0
Acting

In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find...

The Shamrock Handicap

The Shamrock Handicap

1926

as Neil Ross

5.1
Acting

Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. ...

Sandy

Sandy

1926

as Douglas Keith

Acting

Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a pa...

The Road to Glory

The Road to Glory

1926

as David Hale

6.0
Acting

May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.

The Ancient Mariner

The Ancient Mariner

1925

as Joe Barlow

Acting

Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in favor of Victor Brant, a wealthy roué. On the night before...

East Lynne

East Lynne

1925

as Richard Hare

Acting

This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once a...

Lazybones

Lazybones

1925

as Dick Ritchie

6.5
Acting

Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, ...

Thunder Mountain

Thunder Mountain

1925

as Sam Martin

Acting

Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and ...

Havoc

Havoc

1925

as Babe

Acting

A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George...