Birthname: Leonard Sheldon Bershad
| Sign | Pisces |
| Born | Feb 22, 1907 New York City, NY |
| Died | Jan 10, 1997 Beverly Hills, CA |
| Age | Died at 89 |
Sheldon Leonard | |
| Job | Actor, writer, producer, director |
| Years active | 1934-96 |
| Known for | Brooklynesque gangsters (comic or serious) |
| Top Roles | Harry the Horse, Nick, Boris, Grimes, Lt. Coyo |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Romance, Musical, Mystery |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Screwball Comedy, Gangsters |
| Top Collaborators | Gordon Douglas (Director), Frank Capra (Director), Frank McDonald (Director), Hal Roach (Producer) |
| Shares birthday with | Robert Young, George Haight, Fannie Ward see more.. |
Sheldon Leonard Overview:
Character actor, Sheldon Leonard, was born Leonard Sheldon Bershad on Feb 22, 1907 in New York City, NY. Leonard died at the age of 89 on Jan 10, 1997 in Beverly Hills, CA .
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Sheldon Leonard was an American actor of vaguely shifty looks, a 'Macdonald Carey from the other side of the tracks' and one of film's shadiest characters. Rarely seen without a trilby, his Brooklynesque gangsters were equally divided between the comic and the serious. He left acting all too soon to turn to production, but was seen in the late 1970s in a few cameo roles.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).
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Leonard was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame .
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Sheldon Leonard Quotes:
Nick:
[slamming a bottle on the bar] That's it! Out you two pixies go... through the door, or out the window!
George Bailey: Hold on, Nick! What's wrong?
Nick: That's another thing. Where do you come off calling me Nick?
George Bailey: Well... Nick, that's your name. Isn't it?
Nick: What does that have to do with anything? I don't know you from Adam's off Ox.
Gus: I got an idea, boss.
Ace Miller: Brother, I need an idea to get out of this jam.
Gus: The cops find these two guys' bodies with a note pinned on 'em sayin' they committed suicide on account of they were so ashamed because they couldn't deliver a real zombie.
Ace Miller: Hey, that's a possibility!
Ace Miller: You do not resign and you do not quit and that guy Walker does not make a monk out of me to the tune of eighty grand! Now get this - you either produce a real zombie on opening night, or I take Gus's idea.
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George Bailey: Hold on, Nick! What's wrong?
Nick: That's another thing. Where do you come off calling me Nick?
George Bailey: Well... Nick, that's your name. Isn't it?
Nick: What does that have to do with anything? I don't know you from Adam's off Ox.
Gus: I got an idea, boss.
Ace Miller: Brother, I need an idea to get out of this jam.
Gus: The cops find these two guys' bodies with a note pinned on 'em sayin' they committed suicide on account of they were so ashamed because they couldn't deliver a real zombie.
Ace Miller: Hey, that's a possibility!
Ace Miller: You do not resign and you do not quit and that guy Walker does not make a monk out of me to the tune of eighty grand! Now get this - you either produce a real zombie on opening night, or I take Gus's idea.
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