Many of these actors achieved stardom because of their start in film noir; others, despite it. In any case, at one time or another, sometimes many times, they played cops and robbers, hoodlums and toadies, doomed anti-heroes and femme fatales in one of filmdom’s richest genres. And all of us fans of film noir are richer for that. A tip of the fedora to them all.
LEON AMES
Leon Ames (1902-93) enjoyed a long, successful career as a familiar-faced supporting actor, appearing in many films and a variety of genres. He’s now best remembered for playing fatherly figures such as MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) and LIFE WITH FATHER (1953), but in the ‘40s he often played suave, sometimes smarmy characters in noirs such as THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) and LADY IN THE LAKE (1947). He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, of which he was one of the founding members, from 1957 to 1958.
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