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Leo McCarey

Died in 1969

Leo McCarey was born in Los Angeles in 1898, the son of a boxing promoter. A law graduate, he practised briefly and lost his money in a copper mine, then became in 1919 an assistant to Tod Browning at Universal. Joining Hal Roach in 1923 as a gag writer, he brought Laurel and Hardy together there. He twice received the Academy Award for directing, for films of 1937 and 1944, and in 1947 testified, as a cooperative witness, before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He died in Santa Monica in 1969.

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