Leon Gordon (playwright)

Leon Gordon Bennett (12 January 1894 – 4 January 1960) was an English-born actor, playwright, screenwriter, director and sportsman^[1] who wrote the screenplay for White Cargo.^[1][2]

Leon Gordon
Gordon in 1918
Born	Leon Gordon Bennett (1894-01-12)12 January 1894 Brighton, England, U.K.
Died	4 January 1960(1960-01-04) (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations	Actor playwright dramatist screenwriter director sportman
Spouses	Georgia Spence Nancy Evelyn

Biography

Gordon was born in Brighton, 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,^[3] he emigrated to the United States. In 1930 he joined MGM.^[4]

He died of a heart ailment at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, in Los Angeles, California on 4 January 1960. He was survived by two daughters.^[5]

Select film credits

• Sandra (1924) (as an actor)
• White Cargo (1930)
• Heartbreak (1931)
• Freaks (1932)
• Age of Indiscretion (1935)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
• A Yank at Oxford (1938)
• Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
• They Met in Bombay (1941)
• White Cargo (1942)
• Kim (1950)
• The Hour of 13 (1952)

Select plays

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