Leon Beaumon

Leon Beaumon , born: Herman Bauman (born March 15, 1898 in Youngstown , Ohio - † December 1, 1981 in Corona , California ) was an American film actor .

Life

Leon Beaumon, the son of German immigrants, was born in 1898 under the name Herman Bauman on a farm near Youngstown, Ohio. As a teenager he worked with his two brothers in a steel factory. As a young man, he enrolled in a seminary in Chicago ( Illinois ), since it was his first career choice, a Roman Catholic priest to be. After an argument with one of the local priests, Bauman left the seminary in the early 1920s. Together with his brother Marty, he moved to Los Angeles , which the two of them reached via a stopover in Denver ( Colorado ), where the two worked briefly in a bar.

Bauman also changed his name in Los Angeles, and from now on called himself only Leon Beaumon . In the early days in Hollywood , the Beaumon brothers lived in a boarding house with Clark Gable and John Wayne .

His short film career began in 1925 in a small supporting role in the silent film The Freshman . In The King of the Vagabonds from 1930, he was seen as well as in Cecil B. DeMille's historical film Cleopatra , in which he played an Egyptian guard. Mostly, however, Beaumon's roles were so small that they weren't mentioned in the credits . Beaumon stood in front of the camera in 14 films by 1939; His name was mentioned in the opening credits in only four films.

In parallel to his acting career, Leon Beaumon ran an ice cream parlor and later a business that sold malt . He also invented things like a wireless radio.

During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Corps , but was not used in any theater of war. After the war, he became a real estate agent in the greater Los Angeles area, creating a kind of wealth for himself.

Beaumon led a single existence until 1961. It was not until the age of 63 that he married Theresa Hermine Gruber. The two became parents of three children, two daughters and one son. His wife died in 1978. Leon Beaumon died three years later, at the age of 83.

His younger brother Martin Beaumon (1904–1972) was also a brief actor in the 1930s. Martin Beaumon's grandson is actor Sterling Beaumon, born in 1995 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1925: The Freshman ( The Freshman )
• 1934: Cleopatra ( Cleopatra )
• 1939: Fugitive at Large

Web links

• Leon Beaumon in the Internet Movie Database (English)