Leon Weaver
Also Known As: Weaver Brothers and Elviry, Leon Abner Weaver
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ozark, Missouri, USA
Birthday: August 11, 1882
Deathday: May 27, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mountain Rhythm
Overview: The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-08
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The Old Homestead
Overview: In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the mayor, June Weaver, and the police chief, Leon Weaver. To end the crime and preserve her career, June feigns corruption and hires a real gangster to get rid of the local mobs. Unfortunately, a bona fide crooked councilman intervenes and makes real mob connections causing an earnest journalist to launch a front page attack.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Riders of the Whistling Pines
Overview: While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright, Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning.
Genres: Action Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Swing Your Lady
Overview: Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Down in 'Arkansaw'
Overview: A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of the benefits to them of a proposed dam on their river.
Genres: Music Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Grand Ole Opry
Overview: Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-25
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Romance on the Run
Overview: A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-11
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Arkansas Judge
Overview: Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
Genres: Action Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-28
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Mountain Moonlight
Overview: A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-12
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Jeepers Creepers
Overview: Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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In Old Missouri
Overview: The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-17
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Shepherd of the Ozarks
Overview: Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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Friendly Neighbors
Overview: The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-17
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Loaded Pistols
Overview: A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-15
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Tuxedo Junction
Overview: The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-25
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