Leon Gordon Bennett (12 January 1894 – 4 January 1960) was an English-born actor, playwright, screenwriter, director and sportsman who wrote the screenplay for ''

White Cargo ''White Cargo'' is a 1942 American drama film starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon, and directed by Richard Thorpe. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon (playwright), Leon Gord ...

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Biography

Gordon was born in

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, England in January 1894 and studied at St. John's College. He became an actor and was a leading man with the Boston Repertory Company. He began writing plays. After directing plays in Australia, he emigrated to the United States. In 1930 he joined

MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered ...

. He died of a heart ailment at the

Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital has a staff of over 2,00 ...

, in Los Angeles, California on 4 January 1960. He was survived by two daughters.

Select film credits

*'' Sandra'' (1924) (as an actor) *''

'' (1930) *'' Heartbreak'' (1931) *'' Freaks'' (1932) *'' Age of Indiscretion'' (1935) *'' The Last of Mrs. Cheyney'' (1937) *''

A Yank at Oxford ''A Yank at Oxford'' is a 1938 comedy-drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn. The screenplay was written by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. ...

'' (1938) *'' Broadway Melody of 1940'' (1940) *'' They Met in Bombay'' (1941) *''

'' (1942) *'' Kim'' (1950) *'' The Hour of 13'' (1952)

Select plays

*''Watch Your Neighbour'' (1923) *''Garden of Weeds'' (1925) *''The Piker'' (1926)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Leon 1894 births 1960 deaths English male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English male writers English emigrants to the United States