Leo Daniel Maloney (January 4, 1888 – November 2, 1929) was an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter of the silent era.

[1][2] Leo Daniel Maloney was born on January 4, 1888, in San Jose, California.

[3] He built the "Leo Maloney Studio" in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California.

Maloney's final film was one of the first sound pictures, 1929's Overland Bound.

While at a party in Manhattan to celebrate the completion of that picture, Maloney suffered a fatal stroke.