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Len Lesser is a Actor American born on 3 december 1922 at New York City (USA)

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Birth name Leonard King Lesser
Nationality USA
Birth 3 december 1922 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 february 2011 (at 88 years) at Burbank (USA)

Leonard King "Len" Lesser (December 3, 1922 – February 16, 2011) was an American actor. He was known for a key role in the Clint Eastwood movie Kelly's Heroes and his recurring role as Uncle Leo in Seinfeld, which began during the show's second season in "The Pony Remark" episode. Lesser was also known for his role as Garvin on Everybody Loves Raymond.

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Filmography of Len Lesser (36 films)

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Baadasssss!
Baadasssss! (2003)
, 1h48
Directed by Mario Van Peebles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about films
Actors David Alan Grier, Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, Joy Bryant, Adam West, Rainn Wilson
Roles Manny & Mort Goldberg
Rating72% 3.6454353.6454353.6454353.6454353.645435
Melvin Van Peebles stunned the world for the first time, with his debut feature, The Story of a Three Day Pass. Filmed in France and selected as the French entry in the San Francisco Film Festival, Melvin's film was awarded the top prize. Saying it was controversial would be an understatement. In 1968 for a black man to walk up to the podium and accept the top festival award for a film he had to go abroad to make—now that's how you make your mark. After his comedy, Watermelon Man, Melvin was determined to push the Hollywood boundaries with the groundbreaking, and even more controversial, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Turned down by every major studio including Columbia, where he had a three-picture deal, Melvin was forced to basically self-finance. Risking everything he had Melvin delivered to the world the first Black Ghetto hero on the big screen—whether they were ready or not! More than 30 years later, history is being fashioned again in the telling of this very tale. Mario Van Peebles, Melvin's son, directs an honest and revealing portrait of his pioneering father. Mario now tells the story of the making of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, including Melvin's struggles to raise money to fund the film under the guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin had ducked creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch of Negroes and hippies could not have come by that camera equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily losing sight in one eye, Melvin somehow managed to whip into shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film that would give birth to birth of a new era which was about to explode: Independent Black Cinema.
Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!
Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn! (2000)
, 1h32
Directed by Jeff Burr, David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Jaason Simmons, Ashley Tesoro, Robin Atkin Downes, Len Lesser
Roles Inspector Krol (archive footage)
Rating48% 2.4050952.4050952.4050952.4050952.405095
Grandmother's House
Grandmother's House (1989)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Len Lesser, Brinke Stevens, Nico Mastorakis
Roles Grandfather
Rating51% 2.5565752.5565752.5565752.5565752.556575
A boy called David and his sister move to their grandparents' house after the death of their parents. They are stalked at every turn by a crazy lady who has an extremely unsettling smile and a talent with a cook's knife. It is not long before people start to get shot and stabbed and the grandmother's house becomes a battle-zone.
Death Hunt
Death Hunt (1981)
, 1h36
Directed by Peter Hunt, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter
Roles Lewis
Rating68% 3.4464153.4464153.4464153.4464153.446415
In the Yukon Territory in 1931, Albert Johnson (Charles Bronson), a solitary American trapper, comes across an organized dog fight. A white German Shepherd is badly injured and Johnson forcibly takes it, paying $200 to its owner, a vicious trapper named Hazel (Ed Lauter).
Take This Job and Shove It
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
, 1h40
Directed by Gus Trikonis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson, Martin Mull
Roles Roach
Rating49% 2.4620752.4620752.4620752.4620752.462075
A corporate conglomerate called "The Ellison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Ellison to help reorganize one of the ailing breweries. The only thing, though, was that brewery was a major employer in his home town. Originally, his old friends, who were working at the brewery, gave him a cold welcome, as they thought he would be unable to revitalize the brewery. But when Frank informed them that the brewery was drowning in red ink, and that they may be losing their jobs soon, they welcomed him with open arms, and ramped up the brewery's sales and production. The brewery has improved so much, that The Ellison Group decided to sell it to a Texas oil millionaire, who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery—or apparently—running a business.
The Main Event
The Main Event (1979)
, 1h52
Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Earl Boen
Roles Trainer At Big Bear
Rating54% 2.7491752.7491752.7491752.7491752.749175
Hillary Kramer (Streisand), a successful perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon (Ryan O'Neal) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
House Calls
House Calls (1978)
, 1h38
Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Dick O'Neill, Candice Azzara
Roles Waiter
Rating65% 3.2979153.2979153.2979153.2979153.297915
Charles Nichols is a respected doctor. He is also a new widower, and as soon as he returns to Los Angeles from a tropical vacation and period of mourning, he finds himself propositioned by a number of women.
Someone's Watching Me!
Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
, 1h37
Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Len Lesser, Charles Cyphers, Grainger Hines
Roles Burly Man
Rating65% 3.2947553.2947553.2947553.2947553.294755
A woman named Leigh Michaels moves to Los Angeles, and finds a job directing live television. An older man sees her on the balcony of her new apartment, through a telescope. He enters her apartment when she's out, and begins to terrorize her with phone calls and strange gifts from a fictional company, "Excursions Unlimited".
Spider-Man
Spider-Man (1978)
, 1h30
Directed by Ronald Neame, E.W. Swackhamer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about computing, Films about spiders, Spider-Man films, Superhero films, Cyberpunk films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Nicholas Hammond, Lisa Eilbacher, David White, Michael Pataki, Hilly Hicks, Len Lesser
Roles Henchman
Rating45% 2.271732.271732.271732.271732.27173
Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond), a freelance photographer for the Daily Bugle, is bitten by a radioactive spider and discovers he has gained superpowers, such as super-strength, agility and the ability to climb sheer walls and ceilings. When a mysterious Guru (Thayer David) places people under mind-control to rob banks and threatens to have ten New Yorkers commit suicide at his command unless the city pays him $50 million, Peter becomes the costumed hero Spider-Man to stop the crook's fiendish scheme. Things take a bad turn when the villain hypnotizes Peter Parker into being one of the ten people to jump off a building on command.
Ruby
Ruby (1977)
, 1h25
Directed by Curtis Harrington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Horror
Actors Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Roger Davis, Paul Kent, Len Lesser, Michael Alldredge
Roles Barney
Rating45% 2.2585452.2585452.2585452.2585452.258545
In 1935, a lowlife mobster, Nicky Rocco, is betrayed and executed in the swampy backwoods as his pregnant gun-moll, Ruby Claire watches. He swears vengeance with his dying breath, and then she suddenly goes into labour. Sixteen years later in 1951, Ruby is now running a drive-in theatre in the backwoods near her home and employs some ex-mobsters. Her 16-year-old daughter, Leslie Claire, is mute and has been since birth.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
, 2h15
Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, John Vernon, Bill McKinney, John Russell
Roles Abe
Rating77% 3.8974153.8974153.8974153.8974153.897415
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and young son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawker militants. The Union murderers were from Senator James H. Lane's Kansas Brigade, which included Captain Terrill.
Death Wish
Death Wish (1974)
, 1h33
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Steven Keats, Jeff Goldblum
Roles Cop at the Precinct
Rating68% 3.449783.449783.449783.449783.44978
Paul Kersey is an architect living in Manhattan with his wife Joanna and daughter Carol Toby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the store by a group of thugs who break into the apartment, fatally injure Joanna and sexually assault Carol.