American actor. In 1921, he was part of a Roach studio quartet with William Gillespie, Charles Stevenson, and Sammy Brooks.
About three years later, on the evening of New Year's Day, 1924, he committed suicide via inhalation from a hose connected to a gas stove in his room at the Hotel National in National City, California. His dead body was found by a newsboy who delivered papers to the room each evening. In a letter left to his brother Paul, Leo wrote that he had become dissatisfied with his life; an excerpt read, "No one but God will know how I have sinned, and to go on will only make matters worse." He had been employed by the Spreckels company fertilizer plant in National City and had been staying at the hotel on and off since September. He is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego, California.
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