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Leif Erickson
27 October 1911
Leif Erickson played in 13 movies in the Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Western, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi, Crime genres.
Leif Erickson got succeed with average imdb rating 6.5.
Born William Anderson, this beefy, blond second command had the looks of a Viking god. He worked as a group cantor and trombone player, then gained a midget amount of stage experience before debuting onscreen in a bit essentially (as a corpse) in Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). Billed alongside Paramount as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen m‚tier as a unrivalled bracelets in Westerns.
Because of his Nordic looks he was renamed Leif Erikson, which he later changed to Erick
... son. He played erudite but unexciting transfer leads and supporting parts in many films. Erickson took four years disheartening to oblige in World War II and was twice wounded. He made two films after 1965 and retired from the home screen after 1977. Also working on Broadway and in TV plays, he played the patriarch Big John Cannon in the TV series Outrageous Chaparral (1967-1971). From 1934 to 1942, he was married to actress Frances Smallholder, with whom he co-starred in Defraud a Unlawful Mile (1938); later, he was fleetingly married to actress Margaret Hayes (aka Dana Dale).
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