List of the best Leon Errol movies: What a Blonde(1945), Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch(1949), Pop Always Pays(1940), Riverboat Rhythm(1946), Mama Loves Papa(1945), The Girl From Mexico(1939), Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event(1943), Mexican Spitfire's Baby(1941), Mexican Spitfire at Sea(1942), Mexican Spitfire Out West(1940), Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost(1942), The Invisible Man's Revenge(1944) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1945
71 Minutes
Lingerie tycoon F. Farrington Fowler is in a spot as he has ran out of gas-ration coupons. He enlists his butler, Pomeroy, to drum up riders so that he can get extra coupons from the ration... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1949
74 Minutes
Leon Errol Joe Kirkwood Jr. Elyse Knox Marcel Journet Sheila Ryan Harry Lewis Frank Sully Ian Wolfe Sam Hayes Walter Sande
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Comedy
USA
1940
67 Minutes
Leon Errol Dennis O'Keefe Adele Pearce Walter Catlett Marjorie Gateson Tom Kennedy Robert Middlemass Effie Anderson Erskine Sanford
In addition to his yearly manifest of six 2-reel comedies, Leon Errol always managed to squeeze a few feature-film appearances into his RKO Radio contractual duties. In Pop Always Pays, ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
USA
1946
65 Minutes
Leon Errol Glen Vernon Walter Catlett Frankie Carle
Matt Lindsay (Leon Errol) is the captain/owner of a showboat that is on the rocks literally and figuratively. His efforts to raise money to save his boat and troupers get him involved with ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1945
61 Minutes
Wilbur Todd
In 1905, Jessie Todd reads psychologist Basil Pew's book The Woman Behind the Man and becomes inspired to instill the "will to do" in her husband Wilbur. Following a chapter from the book, ... See full synopsis »
Comedy
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Uncle Matthew "Matt" Lindsay
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Donald Woods Linda Hayes Donald MacBride Edward Raquello Elisabeth Risdon Ward Bond
advertising executive singer uncle fiancée wealthy man wrestler spirited playful mexico new york city baseball field wrestling ring radio station nightclub singing culture clash advertising radio jealousy engagement
An advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée.
Comedy
USA
1943
63 Minutes
Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Walter Reed Elisabeth Risdon Lydia Bilbrook Hugh Beaumont Aileen Carlyle
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
Comedy
1941
70 Minutes
Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers Elisabeth Risdon Lydia Bilbrook ZaSu Pitts Fritz Feld Marion Martin Lloyd Corrigan Vinton Haworth Tom Kennedy
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) and her husband's (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) French war "baby" is a blonde named Fifi.
Comedy
1942
72 Minutes
Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers ZaSu Pitts Elisabeth Risdon Florence Bates Marion Martin Lydia Bilbrook Eddie Dunn Harry Holman
Uncle Matt (Leon Errol) poses as Lord Epping and helps Carmelita's (Lupe Velez) husband clinch a shipboard deal.
Comedy
1940
76 Minutes
Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Donald Woods Elisabeth Risdon Cecil Kellaway Linda Hayes Lydia Bilbrook
Carmelita (Lupe Velez) heads for Reno, followed by her husband (Donald Woods) and Uncle Matt/Lord Epping (Leon Errol).
Comedy
1942
70 Minutes
Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping
Lupe Velez Leon Errol Charles Rogers Elisabeth Risdon Donald MacBride Minna Gombell Don Barclay
Uncle Matt (Leon Errol) uses dog fur to pose as Lord Epping on business with Carmelita (Lupe Velez), but a group of saboteurs up to no good in the basement try to drive them away by making the house seem haunted by ghosts.
Sci-Fi
USA
1944
78 Minutes
Herbert
Jon Hall John Carradine Leon Errol Alan Curtis Evelyn Ankers Gale Sondergaard Lester Matthews Halliwell Hobbes
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Otto
Evelyn Laye John Boles Leon Errol Lilyan Tashman Hugh Cameron Marian Lord Lionel Belmore George Bickel Vince Barnett Henry Victor Henry Kolker
opera singer waif count guardian baron merchant amusing outlandish tender budapest, hungary countryside castle deception assumed identity romantic dilemma class conflict bad behavior opera forbidden love discovery
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
Comedy
USA
1941
71 Minutes
His Rival
W.C. Fields Gloria Jean Margaret Dumont Leon Errol Billy Lenhart Kenneth Brown Anne Nagel Franklin Pangborn Mona Barrie Susan Miller Charles Lang
filmmaker actress producer mother daughter amusing campy madcap hollywood, calif. airplane movie studio movies fantasy hollywood pursuit escape 1940s
A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.
Musical
1943
90 Minutes
Cyrus Drake
Michèle Morgan Jack Haley Frank Sinatra Leon Errol Marcy McGuire Victor Borge Mary Wickes Elisabeth Risdon Barbara Hale Mel Torme Paul Hartman
wealthy man servant maid butler neighbor valet amusing heartwarming intricate emotional mansion hotel ballroom bank deception courtship wealth impersonation class conflict quest
A maid (Michele Morgan) and a butler (Jack Haley) join their broke boss' scheme to pose the maid as his daughter in a money marriage.
Comedy
USA
1948
77 Minutes
Julius Caesar "J.C." McBride
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Joseph Calleia Cathy Downs Leon Errol Mike Mazurki Jack Overman Fritz Feld Vera Martin Joe Kirk Matt Willis
Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1931
75 Minutes
Baron von Schwarzdorf
Marilyn Miller Ben Lyon W.C. Fields Ford Sterling Leon Errol Chester Conklin Harry Stubbs Maude Eburne Harry Holman Ruth Hall William Irving
Wealthy man falls in love with a poor girl and proposes to her, going against the wishes of his family.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
80 Minutes
Brennan
Bobby Breen Basil Rathbone Marion Claire Henry Armetta Leon Errol Donald Meek Billy Lee
While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Sam "Pops" Marlow
Lana Turner Richard Carlson Roscoe Karns Ann Rutherford Lee Bowman Leon Errol Monty Woolley Thurston Hall Walter Kingsford Mary Field Chester Clute
dancer college student editor secretary producer publicist lighthearted cheery los angeles movie studio office college newsroom dance hall filmmaking contest impersonation father/daughter relationship journalism dancing
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Comedy
1934
92 Minutes
Layton
Victor McLaglen Helen Vinson John Gilbert Alison Skipworth Wynne Gibson Walter Connolly Fred Keating Tala Birell Leon Errol Walter Catlett Donald Meek