Leon Belasco

Leon Belasco

Nacimiento : 1902-10-11, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Muerte : 1988-06-01

Historia

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

Perfil

Leon Belasco

Películas

El arte de amar
Prince
Paul (Dick Van Dyke) y Casey (James Garner), dos artistas estadounidenses, llevan una vida bohemia en París, pero no consiguen el éxito. La novia de Paul (Elke Sommer) confía en su talento y, desde América, le manda dinero para pagar el alquiler de la casa; pero Paul no soporta esta situación de dependencia y decide volver a su país. A Casey se le ocurre entonces un plan para hacer triunfar a su compañero: se trata de fingir que Paul ha muerto para que así aumente el valor de sus cuadros. Al principio todo marcha bien, pero después el plan se vuelve en contra de Casey, al que acusan del asesinato de Paul.
Can-Can
Arturo
París, 1896. Aunque el descocado Can-Can ha sido prohibido, en el café de una encantadora mujer (MacLaine) se sigue bailando para deleite de sus clientes. Y puede hacerlo impunemente porque su astuto abogado (Sinatra) tiene a un juez corrupto (Chevalier) entre la espada y la pared. Pero el lucrativo negocio se va al garete, con la llegada de un nuevo juez (Jourdan), que decide prohibir definitivamente ese baile tan inmoral.
Jalopy
Bosgood Elrod
Those wacky Bowery Boys invent a superfast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn't this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad guys just before the big race...
The Fabulous Senorita
Señor Gonzales
A Cuban businessman's (Nestor Paiva) daughter (Estelita) elopes with a professor (Robert Clarke) instead of marrying a banker's son.
Cuban Fireball
Hunyabi
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 fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
Bomba and the Hidden City
Raschid
A photographer and his guide meet a corrupt Emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.
Abbott and Costello en la  Legion Extrangera
Hassam--Auctioneer
Jonesy y Lou están en Argelia buscando un luchador que están promoviendo. El sargento Axmann los engaña para que se unan a la Legión Extranjera, después de lo cual descubren la colaboración de Axmann con el desagradable jeque Hamud El Khalid. Los bits incluyen los avistamientos de espejismo de Lou, uno de los vendedores de periódicos de Nueva York ("me dieron una mala esquina").
El halcón y la flecha
Arturo of Milan / Players' Impressario / Court Announcer (uncredited)
El principal enemigo de Dardo (Lancaster) es el Duque Urbis, alias "El Halcón", por haber secuestrado a su mujer y a su hijo. Este noble, en nombre del emperador, ejerce una auténtica tiranía sobre los habitantes de los pueblos de Lombardía. Un día Dardo, buscando venganza, secuestra a la sobrina del Duque.
Love That Brute
François Ducray aka Frenchy
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
Bagdad
Beggar
Una bella princesa beduina se traslada de Europa a la cosmopolita ciudad de Bagdad. Cuando se entera de que su padre ha sido asesinado y en su lugar gobierna un autoritario pachá, intentará vengarse con la ayuda de los temibles Mantos Negros.
Everybody Does It
Hugo
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 organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Amor en conserva
Mr. Lyons
Los Hermanos Marx ayudan a unos jóvenes aspirantes a Broadway a la vez que se ven mezclados con gánsters debido a una lata de sardinas que contiene diamantes Romanoff.
En busca de marido
Violinist
Anabel Sims (Betsy Drake), una dependienta de unos grandes almacenes que desea casarse, se fija en el pediatra Madison Brown (Cary Grant), pero el médico no le presta demasiada atención. Anabel lo intenta todo, pero sin éxito, hasta que se le ocurre una nueva táctica: darle celos contándole que su jefe está intentando seducirla. (FILMAFFINITY)
For the Love of Mary
Igor
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
I, Jane Doe
Duroc
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 discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Three Daring Daughters
Ship Bandleader (uncredited)
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Sucedió en la 5ª avenida
Musician (uncredited)
Un vagabundo neoyorquino se muda a una mansión y, por el camino, se va reuniendo con sus amigos a los que lleva a vivir con él.
Philo Vance Returns
Alexis Karnoff
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 him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Little Iodine
Simkins
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
Suspense
Pierre Yasha
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show 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. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
Swing Parade of 1946
Pete
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Yolanda y el ladrón
Taxi Driver
A un imaginario país sudamericano llega un estafador en busca de alguna oportunidad. Allí seduce a una ingenua heredera haciéndose pasar por su ángel de la guarda. Lo que no esperaba era que sus sentimientos hacia ella cambiasen tan rápidamente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Easy to Look At
Phillipe
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 industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".
Hollywood and Vine
Cedric Borris
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 the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Earl Carroll Vanities
Baron Dashek
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 films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
Storm Over Lisbon
Fado Singer
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
Toda la banda está aquí
Waiter (uncredited)
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Casablanca
Dealer at Rick's (uncredited)
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Casablanca era una ciudad a la que llegaban huyendo del nazismo gentes de todas partes: llegar era fácil, pero salir era casi imposible, especialmente si el nombre del fugitivo figuraba en las listas de la Gestapo. En esta ocasión el principal objetivo de la policía secreta alemana es el líder checo y héroe de la resistencia Victor Laszlo, cuya única esperanza es Rick Blaine, propietario del 'Rick’s Café' y antiguo amante de su mujer, Ilsa. Cuando Ilsa se ofrece a quedarse a cambio de un visado para sacar a Laszlo del país, Rick deberá elegir entre su propia felicidad o el idealismo que rigió su vida en el pasado.
That Other Woman
Hotel Waiter
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.
Ruta de Marruecos
Yusef (uncredited)
Crosby y Hope son dos náufragos de un crucero por el Mediterráneo que acaban en Arabia intentando conquistar a una bella y exótica princesa.
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Leon Brink
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 and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
Night in New Orleans
Waiter in Tavern (Uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
La última prueba
Chris Spyro - Cook (uncredited)
Un químico de la policía (Van Heflin) utiliza técnicas forenses para resolver asesinatos en una ciudad plagada de corrupción política y bandas criminales.
The Night Before the Divorce
Leo
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Roxie Hart
The Ritz Waiter (uncredited)
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.
Over My Dead Body
Pierre
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 several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Design for Scandal
Alexander Raoul
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
The Night of January 16th
Flight Steward
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner (Nils Asther), Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle (Robert Preston), who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Niagara Falls
Head Waiter
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
24 horas sin mentir
Dr. Zarak
El agente de bolsa T.T. Ralston ha prometido a su sobrina Gwen el doble si consigue reunir 20.000 dólares para la caridad. Sin embargo, T.T se confabula con todos sus amigos para que estos se nieguen a darle a Gwen más dinero del que ya ha conseguido, 10.000 dólares. Gwen se reúne en secreto con el nuevo socio de T.T., Steve Bennett, y le da los 10.000 dólares para que este le doble la cantidad invirtiéndolos. Más tarde, en una discusión con T.T., un socio de negocios y un cliente, acerca de la honestidad en el mundo de los negocios, Steve apuesta los 10.000 dólares a que él puede decir la verdad durante 24 horas. Después de haber aceptado una invitación para pasar un fin de semana en un barco de T.T., Steve se somete a 24 horas de interrogatorios para intentar que este mienta y, consecuentemente, pierda la apuesta y, con ello, el dinero de Gwen.
Si no amaneciera
Mr. Spitzer (uncredited)
Georges Iscovescu (Charles Boyer), un seductor europeo que quiere residir en los Estados Unidos, decide casarse con una romántica e ingenua maestra norteamericana (Olivia de havilland) para conseguir el permiso de residencia.
They Dare Not Love
Pierre
Durante la huida que emprende un grupo de personas tras la invasión de las tropas alemanas, el príncipe austriaco Kurt von Rotenberg se enamora de Marta Keller. Al ser descubiertos por los nazis en Checoslovaquia, Von Rotenberg decide entregarse a cambio de que liberen a cuatro detenidos, entre ellos el novio de Marta. (FILMAFFINITY)
I'll Wait for You
Mr. Lapagos, the Tailor
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Abdul the Bulbul Ameer
Various (voice)
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. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Alfredo Herrera
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Hayden
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 played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs. Songs include: "Where Did You Get That Girl?" (Harry Puck, Bert Kalmar, sung by Helen Parrish), "Sergeant Swing," "Rug-Cuttin' Romeo" (Milton Rosen, Everett Carter).
Camarada X
Comrade Baronoff
Un periodista americano, que publica bajo seudónimo noticias muy críticas con el Moscú soviético, es chantajeado por el portero de su hotel, para que saque de la URSS a su hija. El único problema es que la hija es una ferviente comunista.
Spring Parade
Violinist Orchestra Leader
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 happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
La mano de la momia
Ali
Un grupo de escépticos arqueólogos, que desprecian las leyendas y supersticiones populares, buscando la tumba perdida de una princesa egipcia, se encuentra con el guardián del sepulcro: una milenaria momia dispuesta a matarlos a todos.
La dama en cuestión
Barber (uncredited)
Natalie (Rita Hayworth) es acusada de asesinato. André (Brian Aherne), uno de los miembros del jurado, está tan seguro de su inocencia que logra convencer a sus compañeros para que la declaren inocente. Además, compadecido de ella, le ofrece trabajo en su tienda de bicicletas. Por su parte, Pierre (Glenn Ford), el hijo de André, se enamora de Natalie, aunque cree que su padre tiene un lío con ella.
Unidos por la fortuna
Nick #1
Ginger Rogers y Ronald Colman comparten un premio de un sorteo y se van de falsa luna de miel, con resultados perfectamente predecibles.
Mi mujer favorita
Waiter - Pacific Club Poolside (uncredited)
Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Irene Dunne), a quien habían declarado legalmente muerta tras su desaparición siete años antes en un naufragio en las costas de Indochina, vuelve con su amado esposo Nick (Cary Grant). El problema consiste en que él acaba de casarse con Bianca (Gail Patrick). Ellen intenta que Nick vuelva con ella antes de que emprenda su viaje de luna de miel. Pero la situación se complica aún más, cuando Nick descubre que Ellen ha estado siete años en una isla desierta con el masculino Stephen Burkett (Randolph Scott). (FILMAFFINITY)
It's a Date
Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Una aspirante a actriz, que pretende participar en una película importante, descubre que su madre también esta tratando de conseguir el papel. Por si esto fuera poco, las dos se enamoran del mismo hombre.
Esta mujer es mía
Pancho (uncredited)
Durante un viaje en barco, Georgi Gragore, una bella modelo que acaba de sufrir un desengaño amoroso, está a punto de arrojarse por la borda, pero se lo impide Karl Decker, un médico con el que acaba casándose. A pesar de ello, Georgi sigue obsesionada por el hombre que la llevó a tomar tan fatal determinación; perfectamente consciente de ello, su marido le propone que decida libremente si quiere seguir con él o si prefiere volver al pasado.
Legion of Lost Flyers
'Frenchy' Rogian
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 of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
On Your Toes
Mishka - Slave in Ballet
Un joven bailarín abandona el vodevil para convertirse en compositor, y acaba uniéndose a una compañía de ballet rusa.
La dama de los trópicos
Assistant to Manager
Bill Carey es un joven buscavidas que llega a Saigón en un yate propiedad de un millonario norteamericano. Pronto conoce a la exótica mestiza Manon De Vargnes, de la que queda totalmente prendado. Ésta, inicialmente, ve a Bill como una oportunidad para salir de Saigón y cumplir su sueño de llegar a París, lo que provoca que rompa su noviazgo con un noble rico de Asia.
Un tenorio improvisado
Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)
Ambientado en Londres, ilustra los problemas profesionales y sentimentales de un actor que pretende triunfar en la capital británica.
Good Girls Go to Paris
Nightclub Violinist (uncredited)
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 capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
The Flying Irishman
Russian Commentator
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 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Se llevó mi corazón
'Squeaker'
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Beauty for the Asking
Beauty Shop Owner (uncredited)
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 decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
Fisherman's Wharf
Luigi
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 takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
La pareja invisible se divierte
Bellboy
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 to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
El Santo en Nueva York
Driver (Uncredited)
Las mafias campan a sus anchas en la ciudad de Nueva York, por lo que los ciudadanos deciden unirse y pedir ayuda a Simon Templar, 'El Santo', para que expulse al crimen organizado de toda Manhattan. Una vez en Nueva York, Simon intentará desmantelar la banda de gángsters de Big Fellow.
Woman of the Year
Dimitri Subakov
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.