Leo’s Personal Life Was Uneventful
Leo Carrillo was a one-woman-man offscreen. He met his wife to be, Edith Shakespeare Haselbarth, in 1913 in New York. He’d been performing in a play and she came backstage to meet him after seeing him perform. They were together for the next 40 years until her death in 1953. They had a daughter together, Marie Antoinette.
The Carrillos owned a huge 4,500-acre ranch in Carlsbad and are well remembered for allowing local Boy Scouts complete access to their grounds for camping. Leo passed away in 1961 at the age of 81 from cancer. His grave is in Santa Monica’s Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.
