David Leland (actor, 1932)

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David Louis Leland (born January 6, 1932 in Alassio , Italy , † November 7, 1948 in Los Angeles , California ) was an actor and child star .

Life

David Louis Leland was born in Alassio in 1932. His parents were the wealthy American Louis F. Leland (* 1879 † June 30, 1963 in Los Angeles) and Helena M. Leonard (* 1901/1902 † January 21, 1989 in Orange , California), who was born in England . The Leland family owned the Chiays villa in Alassio, where David Leland lived with his siblings and parents. David Leland had two birth sisters and two adult step-siblings from his father's first marriage. David Leland moved to the United States with his family in 1941 or 1942, when he was 9 or 10 years old. After previously starring in The Hour Before the Dawn , Leland was best known as "King Christopher" in the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film His Majesty's Personal Chefs . After that, however, he only made one more film.

On September 30, 1948, the then 16-year-old David was admitted to the Burbank Hospital in California for acute appendicitis in connection with purulent peritonitis and was operated on on October 12, 1948. On November 7, 1948 at around 1:30 a.m., David Leland died of sepsis caused by emphysema, multiple abscesses, and pneumonia. David Louis Leland was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Little Church of the Flowers in Glendale , California.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography on lordheath.com, accessed April 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ Burial place on findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Leland, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leland, David Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Alassio , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1948
Place of death Los Angeles , California