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Leon Janney
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Actor Born: April 1, 1917 in Ogden, UT Death: October 28, 1980 in Guadalajara, Mexico Biography:Leon Janney (born Laon Ramon in Ogden, UT) was directed to a performing career virtually out of the womb -- his mother had entertained notions of an acting career, only to be forced by social convention to abandon them. Instead, her son became her surrogate, making his first theatrical appearance at the age of two, reciting Winken, Blynken, and Nod before an audience at the Pantages Theatre in Ogden, UT, in 1919. He spent the next seven years working in vaudeville, and also made his first appearance on radio in 1926, making the leap to legitimate theater soon after. Janney's movie debut came just a couple of years later, in Victor Sjöström's The Wind (1928), no less, starring Lillian Gish. Renowned as a quick study, he learned stagecraft from the older actors around him, carefully absorbing everything they told him about acting, so that he was a veteran by the time he entered talkies in 1930 with... Full Biography
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