Leon Holmes(1913-1970)
- Actor
Leon Holmes (real name Leon von Cederholm) was born November 26, 1913
in San Francisco to immigrant parents. His father Alfred Sederhulden,
thirty-eight years old at Leon's birth, was a watchmaker from Russia.
Leon's mother, Rose, then 33, was also Russian-born. The
Sederhuldens lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco with Rose's mother
and two brothers. Leon was the youngest; his older brothers were Norvin
and Robert, and his older sister was Isabel. His father died a few
years after Leon's birth and Rose was forced to place the children in
the Pacific Hebrews Orphan Asylum on Divisadero Street in San Francisco
while she worked to support them. Rose got a job as a bakery clerk and
continued to live with her mother and a brother in the Eddy Street, a
half-mile from the orphanage. By the time Leon was cast in one of Alice
Comedies, he, his siblings, and his mother were reunited in one roof in
Los Angeles. The family lived on North Hudson Avenue, about two and
one-half miles west of Disney studio in Kingwell Avenue. Walt Disney
and his brother Roy O. Disney hired some kids of the neighbor for
different productions. Leon was paid 50 cents a day for shooting.
