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Leon Errol From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leon Errol (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951). was an Australian-born comedian and actor in the United States, popular in the first half of the 20th century. Born Leonce Errol Simms in Sydney, he managed a traveling vaudeville troupe and gave a young comedian named Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle his first professional opportunity. in America Errol became a well-known vaudevillian who played skits with such notables as Bert Williams and who appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. Errol made a successful transition to films in a variety of comedy roles (over 150 films from 1923). His comic trademark was a wobbly, unsteady walk, moving as though his legs were made of rubber; this bit served him well in drunk routines. Errol concurrently starred in a long string of two-reel comedy shorts, which began at Columbia Pictures in 1933. Moving to RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, he continued to make six shorts per year until his death in 1951. Most of these were marital farces in which Leon would get mixed up with a pretty girl or an involved business proposition, and face the wrath of his wife (usually Dorothy Granger). Errol's last film, Lord Epping Returns, reprised his famous characterization (and some of the gags) from Mexican Spitfire. RKO kept Leon Errol in the public eye by reissuing his older comedies through the mid-1950s. His RKO shorts soon became a staple of syndicated television. |
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This Gallery is an condensed sample version of the Leon Errol Gallery included on our RKO Comedy Series CD. It is arranged with sections that feature: Vaudeville Days Leon's Movies 1921-1929 Leon's Movies 1930-1939 Leon's Movies 1940-1949 Leon's Movies 1950-1951 Leon's Posters Leon's Portraits: That Face Filmography |