Leon Holmes

Leon Holmes

actor

Leon Holmes was born on Nov 26, 1913 in USA. Leon Holmes's big-screen debut came with Alice Is Stage Struck directed by Walt Disney in 1925, strarring . Leon Holmes is known for The King of Kings directed by Cecil B. DeMille, H.B. Warner stars as Jesus - The Christ and Dorothy Cumming as Mary - The Mother. The upcoming new movie Leon Holmes plays is The King of Kings which will be released on Jan 01, 2004.

Leon Holmes (real name Leon von Cederholm) was born November 26, 1913 in San Francisco to immigrant parents. His father Alfred Sederhulden, thirty-eight years old at Leon's birth, was a watchmaker from Russia. Leon's mother, Rose, then 33, was also Russian-born. The Sederhuldens lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco with Rose's mother and two brothers. Leon was the youngest; his older brothers were Norvin and Robert, and his older sister was Isabel. His father died a few years after Leon's birth and Rose was forced to place the children in the Pacific Hebrews Orphan Asylum on Divisadero Street in San Francisco while she worked to support them. Rose got a job as a bakery clerk and continued to live with her mother and a brother in the Eddy Street, a half-mile from the orphanage. By the time Leon was cast in one of Alice Comedies, he, his siblings, and his mother were reunited in one roof in Los Angeles. The family lived on North Hudson Avenue, about two and one-half miles west of Disney studio in Kingwell Avenue. Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney hired some kids of the neighbor for different productions. Leon was paid 50 cents a day for shooting.

  • Birthday

    Nov 26, 1913
  • Place of Birth

    San Francisco, California, USA

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