Leo Pierson

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| name = Leo Pierson

| birth_name = Leo Olof Pierson

| birth_date = December 25, 1888

| birth_place = Abilene, Kansas, USA

| death_date = October 2, 1943

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA

| education = St. Vincent's College for Boys

| occupation = Actor

| spouse = {{marriage|Ruth Ann Baldwin|February 19, 1917}}

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Leo Pierson (1888-1943) was an American film actor who was active during Hollywood's silent era.{{Cite web|date=5 Mar 1916|title=Leo Pierson Has Troubles as a Thespian|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/585463595/?terms=%22Leo%20Pierson%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Journal and Tribune|language=en}} He was married to director and screenwriter Ruth Ann Baldwin.{{Cite web|date=11 Aug 1917|title=Picture Many Roses Princess Film|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/74396900/?terms=%22Leo%20Pierson%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Santa Ana Register|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Cooper|first=Mark Garrett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cnfJtYM9JWcC&dq=%22leo+pierson%22+hollywood&pg=PA82|title=Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood|date=2010-10-01|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-09087-5|language=en}}

Biography

Leo was born in Abilene, Kansas, to Charles Pierson and his wife, Maude; Charles was an immigrant from Sweden. Later on, he moved to Los Angeles and attended St. Vincent's College, where he began appearing in stage plays and graduated in 1907.{{Cite web|date=17 Jun 1907|title=Program for Graduation at St. Vincent's College|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/607809882/?terms=%22Leo%20Pierson%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Los Angeles Evening Express|language=en}}

His first known film role was in the 1911 short The Profligate. He acted in dozens of films from 1911 through 1919, the year he appears to have changed gears and focused on his work as a production manager.{{Cite web|date=26 Mar 1921|title=The Snoopy Photographer|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/608117548/?terms=%22Leo%20Pierson%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Los Angeles Evening Express|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=1 Apr 1928|title=Business Manager|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/380376211/?terms=%22Leo%20Pierson%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=The Los Angeles Times|language=en}}

He married screenwriter and director Ruth Ann Baldwin on February 19, 1917, the same year he appeared in her Universal films A Wife on Trial and '49-'17.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H30NAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22leo+pierson%22+%22motion+picture%22&pg=RA2-PA121|title=Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines|date=1917|publisher=Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2 Mar 1917|title=Miss Baldwin Weds|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/682585091/?terms=%22Leo%20Pierson%22&match=1|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News|language=en}}

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Category:American male film actors

Category:1888 births

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