Leo White

Known for

Acting

Born

November 9, 1873

Birthplace

Graudenz, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire [now Grudziadz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]

Died

September 20, 1948 (aged 74)

Biography

Leo White (born Leo Weiss) grew up in England and began his stage career there. In 1910 he came to the United States and the following year started working in Silent films. Typically cast as a dapper continental villain or a nobleman, White frequently played uncredited bit parts and as a character actor in many Charlie Chaplin productions. Multiple online sites indicate that he was born in 1882. However his grave marker clearly presents birth year as having been 1873.

Best known work

Casablanca

1943

The Great Dictator

1940

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

The Invisible Man

1933

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

The Thin Man

1934

Grand Hotel

1932

The Roaring Twenties

1939

The Letter

1940

Easy Street

1917

Filmography

2017
The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2
1968
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
as Sailor at Table (archive footage) (uncredited)
1951
A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
Director
1949
The Fountainhead
as Pedestrian Onlooker (uncredited)
1949
Homicide
as Hotel Tenant
1948
Silver River
as The Barber (uncredited)
1948
So You Want to Be a Gambler
as Drug Store Manager (uncredited)
1947
Always Together
as Interior Decorator (uncredited)
1947
Hollywood Wonderland
as Sketch Artist Taking Tour / Gypsy (the latter a clip from "Gypsy Sweetheart", 1935) (uncredited)
1947
The Unfaithful
as Spectator Arriving at Courtroom
1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
as Waiter at Brown Derby (uncredited)
1947
So You're Going to Be a Father
as Psychiatric Ward Doctor (uncredited)
1946
The Verdict
as Cabbie (uncredited)
1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
as Cigar Store Bookmaker (uncredited)
1946
Devotion
as Waiter (uncredited)
1946
Movieland Magic
as Makeup man (uncredited)
1946
Three Strangers
as News Hawker (uncredited)
1945
The Great American Mug
as Rival Barber (uncredited)
1945
Lady on a Train
1945
The Big Show-Off
as Picasso Putschnik
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
1944
Mr. Skeffington
as Henri's Assistant (uncredited)
1944
Charlie's Triple Trouble
as Count (archive footage)
1943
Northern Pursuit
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
1943
Background to Danger
as Whispering Agent (uncredited)