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'''Leonard Penn''' (November 13, 1907 - May 20, 1975) was an [[American]] actor, known for his work in [[serials]] and bit parts in major films.


'''Leonard Penn''' (13 November 1907 – 20 May 1975) was an American film, television and theatre actor.
Penn was born in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] and died in [[Los Angeles, California, USA]].
==Selected Filmography==
*[[Batman and Robin (serial)]] (1949)
*[[Mysterious Island (serial)]] (1951)


== External links ==
==Early life and education==
Penn was born in Springfield, Massachusetts,<ref name="eafs">{{cite book |last1=Mayer |first1=Geoff |title=Encyclopedia of American Film Serials |date=7 February 2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2719-9 |pages=225–226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCgSDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Leonard+Penn%22+actor&pg=PA226 |access-date=September 11, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> to parents Marcus Penn and Eva Monson.{{Citation needed |date=September 2020}} He majored in drama at Columbia University.<ref name="eafs" />
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671985/ IMDB Profile]
{{Expand section|date=September 2010}}


During [[World War II]], Penn served in Navy intelligence.<ref>{{cite news |title=Leonard Penn Gets Marriage License |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59061447/the-los-angeles-times/ |access-date=September 11, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=April 16, 1947 |page=2|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
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{{Actor-stub}}
==Career==
Known for his work in [[serial film|film serial]]s and bit parts in major films, Penn appeared in 81 films and 27 television productions between 1937 and 1960. Penn also appeared in six [[Broadway theatre|Broadway-theatre]] productions in New York City between 1934 and 1941. His Broadway appearances were in ''The Distant City'' (1941), ''Lady in Waiting'' (1940), ''Paths of Glory'' (1935), ''Field of Ermine'' (1935), ''Between Two Worlds'' (1934), and ''Personal Appearance'' (1934).<ref>{{cite web |title=Leonard Penn |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/leonard-penn-55883 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116034644/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/leonard-penn-55883 |archive-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Penn married actress [[Gladys George]] in New Haven, Connecticut on September 18, 1935.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gladys Geoge Married: Actress Is Bride in New Haven of Leonard Penn, Actor |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/101308763 |access-date=January 16, 2021 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=September 19, 1935 |page=29|id={{ProQuest|101308763}} |via = [[ProQuest]]}}</ref> They remained wed until 1944.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nissen |first1=Axel |title=Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties |year=2007 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-2746-8 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IbpwDl1nt0MC&q=%22Leonard+Penn%22+actor&pg=PA88 |access-date=September 11, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> They both appeared in ''[[Marie Antoinette (1938 film)|Marie Antoinette]]''.

In 1947, Penn married Louise Arthur Sharp in Los Angeles.

==Death==
On May 20, 1975, Penn died in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="eafs" /> He was 67 years old.{{Citation needed |date=September 2020}}

==Selected filmography==
{{Incomplete list|date=September 2010}}
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* ''[[Song of the City]]'' (1937) - Fisherboy (uncredited)
* ''[[Between Two Women (1937 film)|Between Two Women]]'' (1937) - Tony Woolcott
* ''[[Bad Guy (1937 film)|Bad Guy]]'' (1937) - First Detective (uncredited)
* ''[[The Firefly (1937 film)|The Firefly]]'' (1937) - Etienne
* ''[[The Women Men Marry]]'' (1937) - Quinn
* ''[[The Ship That Died]]'' (1938) - Bob
* ''[[Arsène Lupin Returns]]'' (1938) - Reporter (uncredited)
* ''[[The Girl of the Golden West (1938 film)|The Girl of the Golden West]]'' (1938) - Pedro
* ''[[Judge Hardy's Children]]'' (1938) - Steve Prentiss
* ''[[Three Comrades (1938 film)|Three Comrades]]'' (1938) - Tony (uncredited)
* ''[[The Toy Wife]]'' (1938) - Gaston Vincent
* ''[[Ladies in Distress]]'' (1938) - Daniel J. Roman
* ''[[Woman Against Woman]]'' (1938) - Fred Barnes (uncredited)
* ''[[Marie Antoinette (1938 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' (1938) - Toulan
* ''[[Young Dr. Kildare]]'' (1938) - Albert Foster (uncredited)
* ''[[Almost a Gentleman (1939 film)|Almost A Gentleman]]'' (1939) - Arthur Gates
* ''[[Bachelor Mother]]'' (1939) - Jerome Weiss
* ''[[The Day the Bookies Wept]]'' (1939) - Man at Racetrack (uncredited)
* ''[[The Way of All Flesh (1940 film)|The Way of All Flesh]]'' (1940) - Joe
* ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' (1946) - (uncredited)
* ''[[Chick Carter, Detective]]'' (1946) - Vasky
* ''[[High School Hero (1946 film)|High School Hero]]'' (1946) - Prof. Farrell
* ''[[Son of the Guardsman]]'' (1946) - Mark Crowell
* ''[[I Cover Big Town]]'' (1947) - Norden Royal
* ''[[The Hat Box Mystery]]'' (1947) - Stevens
* ''[[Killer at Large (1947 film)|Killer at Large]]'' (1947) - Brent Maddux
* ''[[Hoppy's Holiday]]'' (1947) - Dunning
* ''[[Brick Bradford (serial)|Brick Bradford]]'' (1947, Serial) - Eric Byrus
* ''[[The Dead Don't Dream]]'' (1948) - Earl Wesson
* ''[[Partners of the Sunset]]'' (1948) - Les
* ''[[Superman (serial)|Superman]]'' (1948, Serial) - Electronics Store Owner / Henchman (uncredited)
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (1948 film)|The Three Musketeers]]'' (1948) - Musketeer (uncredited)
* ''[[Outlaw Brand]]'' (1948) - Brent
* ''[[Congo Bill (serial)|Congo Bill]]'' (1949) - Andre Bocar
* ''[[Courtin' Trouble]]'' (1949) - Dawson (uncredited)
* ''[[Batman and Robin (serial)|Batman and Robin]]'' (1949, Serial) - Carter - Hammil's Valet
* ''The Adventures of Sir Galahad'' (1949) - Sir Modred - The Black Knight
* ''[[Range Land]]'' (1949) - Bart Sheldon
* ''[[The Pilgrimage Play]]'' (1949) - Judas Iscariot
* ''[[The Girl from San Lorenzo]]'' (1950) - Tom McCarger
* ''[[Six Gun Mesa]]'' (1950) - Carson
* ''[[Women from Headquarters]]'' (1950) - Police Officer Allen
* ''[[Gunfire (film)|Gunfire]]'' (1950) - Dan Simons
* ''[[Silver Raiders]]'' (1950) - Lance Corbin
* ''[[Lonely Heart Bandits]]'' (1950) - Detective Stanley
* ''[[Law of the Badlands]]'' (1951) - Cash Carlton
* ''[[The Sword of Monte Cristo]]'' (1951) - Conspirator (uncredited)
* ''[[Wanted: Dead or Alive (1951 film)| Dead or Alive]]'' (1951) - Sid Taggart - Gang Leader
* ''[[Sirocco (film)|Sirocco]]'' (1951) - Rifat (uncredited)
* ''[[Stagecoach Driver]]'' (1951) - George Barnes
* ''[[Mysterious Island (serial)|Mysterious Island]]'' (1951, Serial) - Capt. Nemo
* ''[[On the Loose (1951 film)|On the Loose]]'' (1951) - Dance Judge (uncredited)
* ''[[South of Caliente]]'' (1951) - Mexican Captain
* ''[[The Magic Carpet (film)|The Magic Carpet]]'' (1951) - Ramoth's Father - the Caliph (uncredited)
* ''[[Thief of Damascus]]'' (1952) - Habayah (uncredited)
* ''[[A Yank in Indo-China]]'' (1952) - Colonel Sablon
* ''[[King of the Congo]]'' (1952, Serial) - Boris
* ''[[Outlaw Women]]'' (1952) - Sam Bass
* ''And Now Tomorrow'' (1952)
* ''[[Barbed Wire (1952 film)|Barbed Wire]]'' (1952) - Steve Ruttledge
* ''[[No Holds Barred (1952 film)|No Holds Barred]]'' (1952) - Pete Taylor
* ''[[Fangs of the Arctic]]'' (1953) - Henchman Morgan
* ''[[Savage Mutiny]]'' (1953) - Emil Bruno
* ''[[The Lost Planet (serial)|The Lost Planet]]'' (1953, Serial) - Ken Wopler
* ''[[Francis Covers the Big Town]]'' (1953) - Brad Mitchell (uncredited)
* ''[[Murder Without Tears]]'' (1953) - Defense Attorney Parker
* ''[[Fort Algiers]]'' (1953) - Lt. Picard
* ''[[Flame of Calcutta]]'' (1953) - Nadir
* ''[[Phantom of the Rue Morgue]]'' (1954) - Gendarme Dumas (uncredited)
* ''[[The Saracen Blade]]'' (1954) - Haroun (uncredited)
* ''[[King Richard and the Crusaders]]'' (1954) - Physician (uncredited)
* ''[[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' (1954) - Train Station Scene Director (uncredited)
* ''[[Drum Beat]]'' (1954) - Miller - a Settler (uncredited)
* ''[[The Silver Chalice (film)|The Silver Chalice]]'' (1954) - Soldier in Banquet Hall (uncredited)
* ''[[Day of Triumph]]'' (1954) - Pharisee
* ''[[Jump Into Hell]]'' (1955) - Pvt. Rigault (uncredited)
* ''[[To Catch a Thief]]'' (1955) - Monaco Policeman (uncredited)
* ''[[Menace from Outer Space]]'' (1956, TV movie) - Ranger Griff (archive footage)
* ''[[The Girl He Left Behind]]'' (1956) - Lt. Gen. B.K. Harrison (uncredited)
* ''[[In the Money]]'' (1958) ([[In the Money|last Bowery Boys film]]) - Don Clarke
* ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]'' (1960) - Garrison Officer (uncredited)
{{div col end}}

==Selected television==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
!scope="col"|Year
!scope="col"|Title
!scope="col"|Role
!scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1949
| ''[[The Lone Ranger (TV series)|The Lone Ranger]]''
| Matt Madrigo
| Episode 9 "War Horse"
|-
| 1951
| ''[[The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok|Marshals in Disguise]]''
| Chief Marshal
| Episode "Mexican Rustlers Story"
|-
| 1952
| ''[[The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok|Marshals in Disguise]]''
| Jim Moore
| Episode "Civilian Clothes"
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Jonas
| Season 1 Episode 11 "The Lady with the Blue Silk Umbrella"
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Hank Petibone
| Season 2, Episode 1, "The Diamond Babe"
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Henry
| Episode "Solomon in All His Glory"
|-
| 1954
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Tom Sweeney
| Episode "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong"
|-
| 1955
| ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]''
| Tarp Anders
| Episode "The Bank Robbers"
|-
| 1956
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Editor Thomas King
| Episode "Emperor Norton"
|-
| 1956
| ''[[The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok|Marshals in Disguise]]''
| Riker
| Episode "The Iron Major "
|-
| 1957
| ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]''
| Pete Burleigh
| Episode "Vengeance Trail"
|-
| 1957
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| John Wycoff
| Episode "The Trial of Red Haskell"
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok|Marshals in Disguise]]''
| Dale
| Episode "Jingles on the Jailroad"
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]''
| Jim Cockrell
| Episode "Wyatt Fights"
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| John Tully
| Episode "Man on the Run"
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IBDB name}}
* {{IMDb name|0671985}}

{{Authority control}}


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Latest revision as of 13:49, 24 December 2024

Not to be confused with Leo Penn.
Leonard Penn
Born(1907-11-13)November 13, 1907
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMay 20, 1975(1975-05-20) (aged 67)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationColumbia University
OccupationActor
Years active1937–1960
Spouse
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(m. 1935; div. 1944)​

Leonard Penn (13 November 1907 – 20 May 1975) was an American film, television and theatre actor.

Early life and education

[edit]

Penn was born in Springfield, Massachusetts,[1] to parents Marcus Penn and Eva Monson.[citation needed] He majored in drama at Columbia University.[1]

During World War II, Penn served in Navy intelligence.[2]

Career

[edit]

Known for his work in film serials and bit parts in major films, Penn appeared in 81 films and 27 television productions between 1937 and 1960. Penn also appeared in six Broadway-theatre productions in New York City between 1934 and 1941. His Broadway appearances were in The Distant City (1941), Lady in Waiting (1940), Paths of Glory (1935), Field of Ermine (1935), Between Two Worlds (1934), and Personal Appearance (1934).[3]

Personal life

[edit]

Penn married actress Gladys George in New Haven, Connecticut on September 18, 1935.[4] They remained wed until 1944.[5] They both appeared in Marie Antoinette.

In 1947, Penn married Louise Arthur Sharp in Los Angeles.

Death

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On May 20, 1975, Penn died in Los Angeles, California.[1] He was 67 years old.[citation needed]

Selected filmography

[edit]

Selected television

[edit]
Year Title Role Notes
1949 The Lone Ranger Matt Madrigo Episode 9 "War Horse"
1951 Marshals in Disguise Chief Marshal Episode "Mexican Rustlers Story"
1952 Marshals in Disguise Jim Moore Episode "Civilian Clothes"
1953 Death Valley Days Jonas Season 1 Episode 11 "The Lady with the Blue Silk Umbrella"
1953 Death Valley Days Hank Petibone Season 2, Episode 1, "The Diamond Babe"
1953 Death Valley Days Henry Episode "Solomon in All His Glory"
1954 Death Valley Days Tom Sweeney Episode "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong"
1955 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Tarp Anders Episode "The Bank Robbers"
1956 Death Valley Days Editor Thomas King Episode "Emperor Norton"
1956 Marshals in Disguise Riker Episode "The Iron Major "
1957 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Pete Burleigh Episode "Vengeance Trail"
1957 Death Valley Days John Wycoff Episode "The Trial of Red Haskell"
1958 Marshals in Disguise Dale Episode "Jingles on the Jailroad"
1958 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Jim Cockrell Episode "Wyatt Fights"
1958 Death Valley Days John Tully Episode "Man on the Run"

References

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  1. ^ a b c Mayer, Geoff (7 February 2017). Encyclopedia of American Film Serials. McFarland. pp. 225–226. ISBN 978-1-4766-2719-9. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  2. ^ "Leonard Penn Gets Marriage License". The Los Angeles Times. April 16, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved September 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Leonard Penn". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  4. ^ "Gladys Geoge Married: Actress Is Bride in New Haven of Leonard Penn, Actor". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 19, 1935. p. 29. ProQuest 101308763. Retrieved January 16, 2021 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7864-2746-8. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
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