Biography
Characters: Yonny Yonson and Jimmy T
Birthday: June 16, 1932
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri
Date of Death:
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First Short: Helping Hands
Last Short: Surprised Parties
Number of Shorts: 3
History: Leon Tyler appeared as a child actor in a few films before a handful of Our Gang shorts and went on to an extensive acting career afterward. He appeared in dozens of films and televsion series through 1965. Leon played a Swedish boy whose name sounds like "Abane Yonny Yonson," with the last two names spelled as "Yohnny Yohnson" in the Internet Movie Database, but in Swedish the spelling is more likely "Johnny Johnson" or "Johnny Johnsson." He then dropped the Swedish accent in Come Back, Miss Pipps, and played the birthday boy in Surprised Parties.
List of Shorts
Other Projects
- Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945) - with Robert Blake, Freddie Chapman, and Patsy Mae Dittemore
- More coming up