Tom London
actor
- Birth name:
- Leonard Thomas Clapham
- Born:
- 1889-08-24, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Died:
- 1963-12-05, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
A character actor and veteran of hundreds of Hollywood westerns, Tom London seemed to be born in the saddle. As a trick rider he performed riding specialties in a number of films. His career started in the teens and through the 1920s he alternated between good guy and bad. He made appearances in non-westerns such as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Platinum Blonde (1931), but westerns were his mainstay. When the "B" western disappeared in the mid-'50s, so did his career. He appeared in only a handful of film for the rest of the decade.
