Leon Russom

Leon Russom is the actor who played the Commander in Chief, named , in and Vice Admiral Toddman in the third season episode .
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Russom was a New York stage actor for 22 years before coming to Hollywood in the mid-1980s. He is today best known for his role as the evil General Jonathan Krantz ("Notepad Man"), head of "the Company" on which he played between 2006 and 2009. His co-stars included Robert Knepper, Wade Andrew Williams, Reggie Lee, Robert Wisdom and Raphael Sbarge.
Russom's first television work was on the soap opera Guiding Light in 1969 and went on to become a regular on the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1972-73). Other early TV work included appearances on Mission: Impossible (1971, with Lawrence Montaigne) and Get Christie Love! (with Marc Alaimo). In addition, he appeared in the 1972 film The Trial of the Catonsville Nine with William Schallert and (1974, co-starring David Clennon and Ed Lauter). He became a regular on the soap opera Another World, playing Willis Frame, from 1976 through 1980. Russom starred in the 1990 TV movie Project: Tin Men with Beau Billingslea and Joseph Culp.
In 1986, Russom appeared on , starring Avery Brooks. During the 1988-89 season, Russom was a regular on the series TV 101. His film credits during this time included supporting roles in (1985, co-starred with Terry O'Quinn, Bill Smitrovich, and Lawrence Tierney) and (1988, starring Edward Laurence Albert and James Cromwell), (1988, with Molly Hagan). During the 1990s, he made appearances in such films as The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993, with Ron Perlman), Double Dragon (1994, with Michael Berryman, Andy Dick, and Julia Nickson), Reasons of the Heart (1996, co-starring Terry Farrell), (1996, with Samantha Eggar, Cary-Hiroyuki and Bill Smitrovich), and (1998, with Jack Kehler and David Huddleston). Later credits include Men of Honor (2000) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001).
Russom earned an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for his role in the 1991 TV movie Long Road Home (also featuring Jack Shearer). He has starred in numerous other TV movies, including 1992's Crash Landing with Bruce McGill, (1993, with Stephen Collins and Stan Ivar), (1993, with Christopher McDonald, John Fleck, Dick Miller, and Tim de Zarn, (1995, starring Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli and Ron Fassler, with Tiny Ron, and Glenn Morshower), 1997's Childhood Sweetheart?, co-starring Barbara Babcock, Michael Reilly Burke, Ronny Cox, Stephanie Erb, Ed Lauter, and Warren Munson, and 1999's Witness Protection, with William Sadler, Jim Metzler, Daniel Zacapa, and Shannon Cochran.
As for his guest appearances on episodic television, Russom played Detective Miles in the pilot episode of in 1993 (which co-starred Cliff DeYoung) and reprised that role in the 2000 episode "Requiem" (with Brian Thompson). He also had guest spots on such shows as (a two-parter with Robert Curtis Brown), (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake), (with Jason Alexander and Richard Herd), (with Gordon Clapp, Sharon Lawrence, Jack Kehler, Glenn Morshower, and Titus Welliver), Dark Skies (with Mary Kay Adams and Brad Blaisdell), The Magnificent Seven (working with Andrew Kavovit and Ron Perlman), (with Joanna Cassidy, Ann Gillespie, Scarlett Pomers, and Richard Riehle), (two episodes, one featuring Bill Cobbs and another co-starring Gregory Itzin, Caroline Kava and George D. Wallace), (starring Martin Sheen, with Thomas Kopache), (with Tim Kelleher and Barbara J. Tarbuck), J.J. Abrams' (with Art Chudabala), (starring Virginia Madsen), and (with William Lucking, Conor O'Farrell, and Nicolas Coster). In 2007, Russom appeared in an episode of , starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois.
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