Leighton Graves Osmun (December 13, 1880 – June 12, 1928) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and author who was active during Hollywood's silent era.
[2][3] Leighton was born in Newark, New Jersey, to banker J. Allen Osmun and Mary Graves.
[4] In 1916, while living in Los Angeles and working as a writer, Leighton briefly disappeared after divorcing his first wife, Harriet Scholl, and marrying his second wife, Lula Dix Drummond.
[4] He and Lula had a daughter, Sarah, together; she would go on to marry William Ince, son of director Thomas H.
[5] In the summer of 1929, he suffered a heart attack and died after rescuing a child who was in danger of drowning at a beach in La Jolla, California.