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Leonce Errol Simms (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951) known by the stage name "Leon Errol," was an Australian-born comedian and actor in the United States popular in the first half of the 20th Century. Born in Sydney, in America he became a well-known vaudevillian who played skits with such notables as Bert Williams and who appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. Errol made a successful transition to films in a variety of comedy roles, most notably developing a character as an elegant, courteous, yet hoplessly confused drunk.

He is well remembered for his recurring role of Uncle Matt in the Mexican Spitfire movies opposite Lupe Vélez and his work in the "Joe Palooka" series of films in the 1940s, but had a long career in a variety of two-reeler comedy shorts in the 1930s and 1940s. He also appears in the very surrealistic W.C. Fields film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
-- Fields was also a former vaudevillian and an almunus of Ziegfeld's productions. With roles in over 150 films from 1923 through 1951, he worked steadily, mostly in short comedies right up until his death in 1951 (he made seven films that year).

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