Leon M. Lion

{{Short description|British actor (1879–1947)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}

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| name = Leon M. Lion

| image = Actor_Leon_M._Lion.jpg

| caption = Photo by Howard Coster

| birth_name = Leon Marks Lion

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1879|03|12}}

| birth_place = Islington, London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1947|03|28|1879|03|12}}

| death_place = Brighton, Sussex, England

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| occupation = Actor
Playwright
Stage director
Theatrical producer

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| spouse = {{marriage|Kathleen Crighton Symington
|1907|1925|end=div}}{{Cite news|title=Probate, Divorce, And Admiralty Division – Decree against a Theatre Manager – Lion vs. Lion|date=1 April 1925|work=The Times|issue=43925|page=5}}

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Leon Marks Lion{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=962|title=Lion, Leon Marks – RBSCP|website=lib.rochester.edu}} (12 March 1879 – 28 March 1947) was an English stage and film actor, playwright, theatrical director and producer.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/18321|title=Leon M. Lion|access-date=24 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023085406/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/18321|archive-date=23 October 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/leon-m-lion-11257|title=Leon M. Lion – Broadway Cast & Staff – IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|website=ibdb.com}}{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/c1v/leon-m-lion/past|title=Leon M Lion – Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}} He starred in Joseph Jefferson Farjeon's 1925 hit play Number 17 as well as its subsequent 1932 film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock.