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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Redhead and The Cowboy
1951
Director
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
1949
Director
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
1948
Director
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
1948
Director
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
1948
Director
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
1947
Director
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
1945
Director, Producer
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

Tomorrow, the World!
1944
Director
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
1941
Director
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

The Golden Fleecing
1940
Director
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The Man from Dakota
1940
Director
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

Stronger Than Desire
1939
Director
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Tell No Tales
1939
Director
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Boys Town
1938
as Dan Farrow
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
1938
Director
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
1938
Director
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
1938
Director
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.

Captain Kidd's Treasure
1938
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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
1938
Director
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
1937
as Nick Garvey
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
1937
as Anthony Durand
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
1936
as Barry Wilding
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

The Longest Night
1936
as Carl Briggs
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

Sworn Enemy
1936
as Steve Sherman
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Murder on a Bridle Path
1936
as Don Gregg
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
1936
as Stuart Eldredge
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) conne...

White Lies
1935
as Dan Oliver
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
1935
as Captain Wong Bo
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

Men Without Names
1935
as Monk
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Chinatown Squad
1935
as Su Quong
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Stolen Harmony
1935
as Joe Harris (uncredited)
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
1935
as Tim Winthrop
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
1935
as Dr. Kane
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
1934
as Svengaart
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

Marie Galante
1934
as General Saki Tenoki
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
1934
as Frank Riker
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
1934
as Hugh Halliburton
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
1934
as Russell Storm
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
1933
as Duke
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Night Flight
1933
as Jules' Radio Operator / Co-Pilot
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

F.P.1
1933
as Capt. B.E. Droste
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
1932
as Tony Dressel
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

Thunder Below
1932
as Webb
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
1932
as Nick 'Nicky' Grant
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.

The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
as Perrin
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
1932
as Harry En Hai
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

The Guilty Generation
1931
as Joe Palmero
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

The Pagan Lady
1931
as Gerald 'Gerry' Willis
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
1931
as Walter Grayson
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
1931
as Charlie
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
1931
as Samuel 'Nails' Nathan
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
1931
as Baron le Duc
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
1929
as Young 'Vulture'
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
1929
as Buffo
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
1929
as Eddie Evans
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
1929
as Richard Parrish
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
1929
as 'Scar' Edwards
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

The Man I Love
1929
as Carlo Vesper
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
1929
as Peter Allerton
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
1929
as Andrew 'Andy' Corbin
Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.

The First Kiss
1928
as Carol Talbot
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
1928
as Shakespeare
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
1928
as Kilgore Shelton
Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.

The Gateway of the Moon
1928
as Jim Mortlake
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
1926
as Lt. Moore
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
1926
as James Callahan
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
1926
as Neil Ross
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
1926
as Douglas Keith
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
1926
as David Hale
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.

The Ancient Mariner
1925
as Joe Barlow
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
1925
as Richard Hare
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
1925
as Dick Ritchie
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
1925
as Sam Martin
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
1925
as Babe
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...