David Louis Leland (6 January 1932 in Alassio, Italy – 7 November 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Italian-born American child actor who appeared in several Hollywood films in the 1940s.

His father Louis Leland (1879-1963) was born in Rome to an American father and Italian mother; his mother Helena Leland (1901/02-1989) was born in London.

David Leland (actor)

He moved to the US in the early 1940s and appeared in several films, notably alongside Laurel and Hardy in one of their later efforts, Nothing But Trouble.

David Leland (actor)

He died aged sixteen while suffering from sepsis.

David Leland (actor)

Filmography

References

Biography on Lord Heath.com

External links

Italian people of English descent

Italian people of American descent

American male child actors

Italian male child actors

1932 births

1948 deaths

Italian male film actors

American male film actors

People from Alassio

20th-century American male actors

20th-century Italian male actors

Italian emigrants to the United States