Leo Pierson (1888-1943) was an American film actor who was active during Hollywood's silent era. He was married to director and screenwriter

Ruth Ann Baldwin Ruth Ann Baldwin was a journalist who became a silent film writer and director active during the 1910s, one of the few women to direct in the early era of filmmaking. Despite the fact that she was one of the first female directors in America, no ...

Biography

Leo was born in Abilene, Kansas, to Charles Pierson and his wife, Maude; Charles was an immigrant from Sweden. Later on, he moved to Los Angeles and attended St. Vincent's College, where he began appearing in stage plays and graduated in 1907. His first known film role was in the 1911 short ''

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''. He acted in dozens of films from 1911 through 1919, the year he appears to have changed gears and focused on his work as a production manager. He married screenwriter and director Ruth Ann Baldwin on February 19, 1917, the same year he appeared in her Universal films ''

A Wife on Trial ''A Wife on Trial'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin and starring Mignon Anderson, Leo Pierson, and L.M. Wells.''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema'', p. 26 Cast * Mignon Anderson as Phyllis Narcissa * ...

'' and '' '49-'17''.

Select filmography

* ''

Wagon Tracks ''Wagon Tracks'' is a 1919 American silent Western film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced by Thomas H. Ince and William S. Hart, and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Upon its release, the ''Los Angeles Times'' described it as Hollywood's ...

'' (1919) * ''

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'' (1919) * '' The Poppy Girl's Husband'' (1919) * '' The Cove of Missing Men'' (1918) * ''

The Girl of My Dreams ''The Girl of My Dreams'' is a lost 1918 British silent film romance directed by Louis Chaudet and starring Billie Rhodes. Cast * Billie Rhodes - The Weed * Jack McDonald - George Bassett *Lamar Johnstone - Kenneth Stewart (*as Lamar Johnston) * ...

'' (1918) * '' Desert Law'' (1918) * ''

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'' (1918) * '' The Spreading Evil'' (1918) * '' '49-'17'' (1917) * ''

'' (1917) * ''

Treason Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplo ...

'' (1917) * '' The Birth of Patriotism'' (1917) * ''

The Crisis ''The Crisis'' is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor), Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Mil ...

'' (1916) * '' At Piney Ridge'' (1916)

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American film actors 1888 births 1943 deaths {{US-film-actor-stub