Leon Belasco

AKA: Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky
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1902-10-11

Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Biography

Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky; 11 October 1902 - 1 June 1988) was a Russian-American musician and actor.

Crew Roles

It's a Date
Songs
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {87}

Ali

1940-09-20 5.7

The Mummy's Hand

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautif ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy

Pierre Yasha

1946-06-15 6.05

Suspense

The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. Ho ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Fado Singer

1944-10-16 4.8

Storm Over Lisbon

A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Mr. Lyons

1949-10-12 5.8

Love Happy

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds. ...
Genre :Comedy

Limousine Driver

1973-12-14 4.474

Superdad

A dad tries to impress the daughter -- a soon-to-be college student he thinks is hanging around with a bad crowd. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ali (archive footage / uncredited)

1942-10-23 5.6

The Mummy's Tomb

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier. ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy

Ship Bandleader (uncredited)

1948-02-12 5.7

Three Daring Daughters

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

François Ducray aka Frenchy

1950-06-06 5.3

Love That Brute

The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Beauty Salon Manager (uncredited)

1950-04-01 6.1

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the ...
Genre :Comedy

Flower Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

1942-01-01 7

Holiday Inn

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Duroc

1948-05-25 6.1

I, Jane Doe

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discove ...
Genre :Crime

Musician (uncredited)

1947-04-17 6.981

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Man at Concert

1972-10-03 0

Playmates

Two divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

Alfredo Herrera

1941-01-24 5.7

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Dr. Zarak

1941-10-10 7.1

Nothing But the Truth

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours. ...
Genre :Comedy

Prince

1965-06-30 5.3

The Art of Love

Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value. ...
Genre :Comedy

Alexis Karnoff

1947-04-14 5

Philo Vance Returns

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Action

The Professor

1953-02-15 4.6

Jalopy

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Lapagos, the Tailor

1941-05-16 6.8

I'll Wait for You

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Luigi

1939-02-03 6

Fisherman's Wharf

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Music

Raschid

1950-09-24 4.6

Bomba and the Hidden City

A nature photographer and his guide meet a corrupt emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Bellboy

1938-12-29 6.4

Topper Takes a Trip

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Violinist Orchestra Leader

1940-09-27 6.7

Spring Parade

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a hap ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Ritz Waiter (uncredited)

1942-02-20 6.9

Roxie Hart

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Dealer at Rick's (uncredited)

1943-01-15 8.145

Casablanca

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Hugo

1949-10-24 7.8

Everybody Does It

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While org ...
Genre :Comedy

Igor

1948-09-01 5.8

For the Love of Mary

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Dimitri Subakov

1976-07-28 0

Woman of the Year

The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

Phillipe

1945-06-01 0

Easy to Look At

In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion indust ...
Genre :Music

Mishka - Slave in Ballet

1939-10-14 3.9

On Your Toes

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer. ...
Genre :Comedy

'Squeaker'

1939-04-07 6.2

Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Music

Russian Commentator

1939-04-07 4.6

The Flying Irishman

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallon ...
Genre :Drama

Nightclub Violinist (uncredited)

1939-06-20 7

Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capi ...
Genre :Comedy

Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)

1939-06-29 3.6

Man About Town

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husb ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Assistant to Manager

1939-08-11 6.111

Lady of the Tropics

American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Peter

1952-05-01 0

Gobs and Gals

Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs). ...
Genre :Comedy

Violinist

1948-12-25 6.1

Every Girl Should Be Married

Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Pancho (uncredited)

1940-02-02 5.611

I Take This Woman

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Spitzer (uncredited)

1941-09-26 6.7

Hold Back the Dawn

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done lik ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Flight Steward (uncredited)

1941-11-28 5

The Night of January 16th

Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Leo

1942-03-06 4.5

The Night Before the Divorce

Marital comedy with a dash of murder. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Leon Brink

1942-09-01 6

Henry Aldrich, Editor

Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time an ...
Genre :Comedy

Hunyabi

1951-03-05 4

Cuban Fireball

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fe ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Captain of Waiters (uncredited)

1940-03-22 5.9

It's a Date

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Beauty Shop Owner (uncredited)

1939-02-24 5.2

Beauty for the Asking

Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora dec ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Arturo

1960-03-09 6.6

Can-Can

A Parisian nightclub owner known for her performances of the can-can attracts the ire of a self-righteous judge. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to th ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Comrade Baronoff

1940-12-13 5.958

Comrade X

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Waiter - Pacific Club Poolside (uncredited)

1940-05-17 6.991

My Favorite Wife

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1942-09-04 6

Between Us Girls

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Nick #1

1940-08-02 6

Lucky Partners

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Barber (uncredited)

1940-08-07 6.6

The Lady in Question

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Baron Dashek

1945-04-05 5

Earl Carroll Vanities

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood film ...
Genre :Romance, Music

Beggar

1949-11-23 5.6

Bagdad

An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders. ...
Genre :Adventure

Hassam--Auctioneer

1950-08-05 6.1

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sh ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Pierre

1941-05-16 6

They Dare Not Love

An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis ...
Genre :War, Drama

Simkins

1946-10-19 3

Little Iodine

Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pierre

1942-01-15 0

Over My Dead Body

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears seve ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Head Waiter

1941-10-17 6.8

Niagara Falls

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Alexander Raoul

1941-12-01 4.857

Design for Scandal

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Hotel Waiter

1942-11-13 5.5

That Other Woman

A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Hayden

1941-01-03 5

Where Did You Get That Girl?

In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Driver (Uncredited)

1938-05-25 6.438

The Saint in New York

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual cr ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Yusef (uncredited)

1942-11-10 6.9

Road to Morocco

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Adventure, Romance

Waiter in Tavern (uncredited)

1942-07-01 3.6

Night in New Orleans

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Cedric Borris

1945-04-25 4

Hollywood and Vine

A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Pete

1946-03-19 4.2

Swing Parade of 1946

A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down. ...
Genre :Romance, Music, Comedy

Arturo of Milan / Players' Impressario / Court Announcer (uncredited)

1950-07-07 6.2

The Flame and the Arrow

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors. ...
Genre :Adventure, History

Chris Spyro - Cook (uncredited)

1942-04-17 6.2

Kid Glove Killer

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ivan Stravinsky / Ivan's Attache (voice)

1941-02-21 6

Abdul the Bulbul Ameer

The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Gr ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy

Señor Gonzales

1952-03-31 6

The Fabulous Senorita

A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son. ...
Genre :Comedy

Waiter (uncredited)

1943-12-24 5.9

The Gang's All Here

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Taxi Driver

1945-11-22 5.7

Yolanda and the Thief

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Fantasy

'Frenchy' Rogian

1939-11-02 3.7

Legion of Lost Flyers

A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands ...
Genre :Comedy, Action, Adventure

Don de Córdoba (uncredited)

1948-12-24 6.6

Adventures of Don Juan

Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces. ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Action

Waiter at the Double Eagle

1941-11-01 6.4

The Chocolate Soldier

Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman and attempts to make Maria flirt with him - to tes ...
Genre :Music

Orchestra Leader

1946-08-15 6.2

Holiday in Mexico

Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Ea ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Dominiques' Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

1950-08-24 4.864

The Toast of New Orleans

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Babu

1952-08-15 5.4

Son of Ali Baba

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belongi ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action, Adventure

Victor Gregory

1962-09-26 6.868

The Beverly Hillbillies

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Violinist

1962-10-01 7

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program ...
Genre :Comedy

Concert Master

1962-10-01 7

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program ...
Genre :Comedy

Maitre D'

1962-10-01 7

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program ...
Genre :Comedy

Rozzi

1963-10-04 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk

Thin Russian

1963-10-04 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk

Maxim Radish

1964-09-22 7.09

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Clerk

1951-10-15 7.889

I Love Lucy

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in th ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Gregor Kodlitz

1963-10-04 5.7

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk