Harry M. Leonard

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Harry Mills Leonard (born June 22, 1900 in Scranton , Pennsylvania , † December 17, 1985 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American sound engineer who was nominated for an Academy Award at the 18th Academy Awards in 1946 .

biography

Leonard first appeared in the 1930 adventure film A Devil with Women with Victor McLaglen , Mona Maris and Humphrey Bogart . It would be six years before his next work in a film, hands up! was the name of the drama that was published in Germany in 1938. In 1936, Leonard was involved in another 16 films, of which Career Woman of Lewis Seiler up the rear. In 1937 Leonard was involved in twenty films of various stripes, beginning with Woman-Wise with Rochelle Hudson and ending with Eugene Forde's comedy film Charlie Chan in Monte Carlo . In addition to the Charlie Chan films, Mr. Moto films and films by the comedian duo Laurel and Hardy were among the productions in which the sound engineer was involved. In 1944 Leonard provided the sound for Otto Preminger's film drama Laura with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews . The film won an Oscar and was nominated for four more. With Preminger Leonard worked in the course of his career in a further seven films, with Gene Tierney in six films and with Dana Andrews in four.

In 1946, Leonard, along with Fred Sersen , Roger Heman Sr. and Sol Halperin, received an Oscar nomination in the Best Special Effects category for his performance in the biographical drama The Daredevil Adventures of Captain Eddie, starring Fred MacMurray , Lynn Bari and Charles Bickford in the Leading roles. Sersen and Halperin were nominated for the photographic effects, Heman and Leonard for the sound effects . However, the Oscar went to John P. Fulton and Arthur Johns and the ghost film The Wonder Man . Fred Mac Murray was in other films on the cast list, in which Leonard also starred. For example in the family drama Smoky, King of the Prairie (1946), in which Anne Baxter was also cast, with whom he had shot the war drama Der Sonntagsgast two years earlier . With Baxter it should come in six more films to a collaboration.

In the literary film adaptation of Amber, the great courtesan , he met Otto Preminger again. In the title role is Linda Darnell , who appeared in six other films in which Leonard was involved. Leonard contributed with his sound to the action drama Night Club Lilly (1948) by Jean Negulesco . He worked with Negulesco in ten films. In William A. Wellman's western Mistress of the Dead City (1948) he met Anne Baxter again, as well as in the western A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950) and in the crime drama Frau am Abgrund (1950) Otto Preminger and Gene Tierney. Leonard was also involved in Otto Preminger's film noir Faustrecht der Großstadt (1950) with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. Gene Tierney also starred in the western Retribution at the Teufelssee (1951), in which Leonard worked on the sound. One of the classics of its genre is Robert Wise's science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), to whose success Leonard contributed in the Sound Department. In Richard Brooks' crime drama The Mask Down (1952) there was a reunion with Humphrey Bogart. Five Pearls (1952) is the German title of a film anthology in which John Steinbeck presents a quintet of five of O. Henry's most famous stories from his time in New York, and in which Anne Baxter is again on the cast list and Leonard in the Sound Department showed up. Leonard also contributed to Billy Wilder's comedy The Itchy 7th Year (1955) starring Marilyn Monroe . He was already familiar with Marilyn Monroe from the films A Ticket to Tomahawk , Temptation on 809 and Five Pearls . In the film drama The Left Hand of God (1955) by Edward Dmytryk there was a further collaboration with Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney and in the literary film adaptation Bus Stop (1956) with Marilyn Monroe. Leonard worked with Dmytryk in four films. He was also involved in eight films by director Henry Hathaway , in six films by Henry Koster , in five productions by Hollywood veteran Henry King and in four by Samuel Fuller . He also worked several times with directors Richard Fleischer , Lewis Milestone , Norman Foster , Anatole Litvak , Nunnally Johnson and Raoul Walsh .

The actor Richard Widmark was on the cast list eight times in films in which Leonard also participated, five times the actresses Claire Trevor and Jean Peters , four times Gregory Peck , Joseph Cotten , Robert Ryan and Joanne Woodward , three times Loretta Young , Mitzi Gaynor , Dale Robertson , Anthony Quinn , Ray Milland , Henry Fonda , Maureen O'Hara , Tyrone Power , Paul Newman and Susan Hayward .

Leonard made his last appearance in 1968 with the western The Legend of Custer , an unauthorized episode in the life of George Armstrong Custer . The IMDb lists 305 works for him, Turner Classic Movies 341.

Harry M. Leonard, who was married to Helen J. McClelland (1898-1983), died in 1985 at the age of 85.

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  1. ↑ Harry M. Leonard see prolabs.imdb.com
  2. ↑ a b Harry Mills Leonard sS findagrave.com (English)
  3. ↑ The 18th Academy Awards | 1946 adS oscars.org (English)
  4. ↑ Harry M. Leonard adS TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
personal data
SURNAME Leonard, Harry M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonard, Harry Mills; Leonard, HM; Leonard, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Scranton , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1985
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States