{{short description|American screenwriter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Walter DeLeon | image = Democracy The Vision Restored (1920) - Walter DeLeon.jpg | caption = DeLeon from an ad for ''Democracy: The Vision Restored'' (1920) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|5|3}} | birth_place = Oakland, California, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|8|1|1884|5|3}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | years_active = 1912–1953 | occupation = Screenwriter, playwright }}

'''Walter DeLeon''' (May 3, 1884 &ndash; August 1, 1947) was an American screenwriter and playwright.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9405E4DC123EE23ABC4B51DFB7678382629EDE|title=Movie Review THE SCREEN; Paramount Finds Comedy in 'The Cat and the Canary' 'Return of Doctor X' Is Shown at Criterion - NYTimes.com|website=The New York Times |publisher=|accessdate=March 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D00EEDC1E30E53ABC4151DFB066838B659EDE|title=Movie Review THE SCREEN; 'The Man Who Talked Too Much' Does So at the Strand 'Sailor's Lady' at the Roxy NYTimes.com|website=The New York Times |publisher=|accessdate=March 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0DE3DC123BE333A0575AC0A9609C946493D6CF|title=Movie Review THE SCREEN; Danny Kaye Plays Double Role in 'Wonder Man,' New Film at Astor Jane Powell Star in Musical at the Gotham - NYTimes.com|website=The New York Times |publisher=|accessdate=March 3, 2017}}</ref>

== Biography == Walter DeLeon was born on May 3, 1884, in Oakland, California. DeLeon made his playwright debut at Idora Park in Oakland.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1928-12-10 |title=Idora Park to Vanish Subdivision to be Made |pages=1 |work=Oakland Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57171870/idora-park-to-vanish-subdivision-to-be/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2022-03-16}}</ref> He wrote for 69 films that were released between 1921 and 1953, and acted in one film. He died on August 1, 1947, in Los Angeles, California.

==Filmography== * ''Scared Stiff'' (1953) * ''The Time of Their Lives'' (1946) * ''Little Giant'' (1946) * ''Birth of the Blues'' (1941) * ''The Ghost Breakers'' (1940) * ''Union Pacific'' (1939) * ''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' (1938) * ''Ruggles of Red Gap'' (1935) * ''Tillie and Gus'' (1933) * ''The Phantom President'' (1932) * ''Meet the Wife'' (1931) * ''Won by a Neck'' (1930) * ''Big Money'' (1930) * ''The Sophomore'' (1929) * ''The Little Giant'' (1926) * ''The Ghost Breaker'' (1922)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0216755|name=Walter DeLeon}} *{{IBDB name}}

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