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Leonard Carey

Leonard Carey

Leonard Carey

1887-02-25

London, England, UK

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Biography

Leonard Carey (25 February 1887 – 11 September 1977) was an English character actor who very often played butlers in Hollywood films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was also active in television during the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his role as the beach hermit, Ben, in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).

Best known for:

Rebecca

Strangers on a Train

Suspicion

Gaslight

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Mrs. Miniver

Heaven Can Wait

Shanghai Express

The Hound of the Baskervilles

While the City Sleeps

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

That Hamilton Woman

Angel

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Unconquered

Adventures of Superman

Bombshell

Wife vs. Secretary

Merrily We Go to Hell

Tomorrow Is Forever

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Gambling Lady

This Above All

Call Her Savage

Raffles

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Filmography:

Laughter (1930)
APPEREAD AS:
Benham, Gibson's Butler
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
5.9
APPEREAD AS:
Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
Honor Among Lovers (1931)
APPEREAD AS:
Forbes (uncredited)
Working Girls (1931)
APPEREAD AS:
Boyd's Butler (uncredited)
Nice Women (1931)
APPEREAD AS:
Connors, Butler
Shanghai Express (1932)
5.6
APPEREAD AS:
Carey (uncredited)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
Call Her Savage (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Jackson, Randall's Butler (Uncredited)

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The Crash (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Fair's Butler
This Reckless Age (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Braithwaite (uncredited)
Bombshell (1933)
5.2
APPEREAD AS:
Winters
A Lady's Profession (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Melville, the Butler (uncredited)
King of the Jungle (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
Infernal Machine (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Hans
The Avenger (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Talbot

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The Worst Woman in Paris? (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Chumley - the Butler
The Little Minister (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Hendry Munn
The Age of Innocence (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
The Butler
Gambling Lady (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
His Greatest Gamble (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Alfred
Double Door (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
William
Smarty (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Tilford - Tony's Butler
I Sell Anything (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
Our Little Girl (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Brent's Butler
Ginger (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Gwynne (uncredited)
Two for Tonight (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Mr. Myers' Butler
Here's to Romance (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Buttler
Hold 'Em Yale (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Langdonn
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
Taggart (uncredited)
A Woman Rebels (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
Small Town Girl (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Concierge (uncredited)
Strike Me Pink (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
Trouble for Two (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Valet (Uncredited)
Bunker Bean (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Kent's Butler
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Butler
The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Butler
The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)
APPEREAD AS:
Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
APPEREAD AS:
Ames
Hitting a New High (1937)
APPEREAD AS:
Jervons
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
APPEREAD AS:
William - Butler (uncredited)
Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
APPEREAD AS:
James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
Night of Mystery (1937)
APPEREAD AS:
Lister
Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
APPEREAD AS:
Butler Phillips
Blond Cheat (1938)
APPEREAD AS:
Meggs (uncredited)
Hold That Kiss (1938)
APPEREAD AS:
Gibley
Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
APPEREAD AS:
Zorka's Butler
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Hugo's Servant (uncredited)
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Peters (uncredited)
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Jameson
Stronger Than Desire (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
Fast and Loose (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Craddock
Raffles (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Bingham's Secretary
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Martin
The Zero Hour (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Butler
Rebecca (1940)
6.9
APPEREAD AS:
Ben
Sky Murder (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Sutter - Grand's Butler
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
Hired Wife (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Peterson - Butler
In Old Missouri (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Haskins
Private Affairs (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Casper the Butler
Suspicion (1941)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Orderly (uncredited)
Private Nurse (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Smithton - the Butler
Confirm or Deny (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Sidney
Accent on Love (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Flowers
West Point Widow (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Simpson
Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Mate Dusty Rhodes
Tuxedo Junction (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Jenkins
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Chandler (uncredited)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
APPEREAD AS:
Pale Tom (uncredited)
What's Cookin'? (1942)
APPEREAD AS:
Butler
This Above All (1942)
APPEREAD AS:
Policeman with Rector
The Affairs of Martha (1942)
APPEREAD AS:
The Butler (uncredited)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
5.6
APPEREAD AS:
Flogdell (uncredited)
Gaslight (1944)
6.3
APPEREAD AS:
Guide (uncredited)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
4.2
APPEREAD AS:
The Police Constable (uncredited)
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
APPEREAD AS:
Hamilton Employee
Moss Rose (1947)
APPEREAD AS:
Coroner (uncredited)
Unconquered (1947)
4.9
APPEREAD AS:
London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon
The Exile (1947)
APPEREAD AS:
Cavalier (uncredited)
Slightly French (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Wilson (uncredited)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
6.6
APPEREAD AS:
Anthonys' Butler (uncredited)
Kind Lady (1951)
APPEREAD AS:
Postman
The Lady and the Bandit (1951)
APPEREAD AS:
Jailer
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
4.5
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Edmund Simmons (uncredited)
Thunder in the East (1952)
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Paling
The Millionaire (1955)
APPEREAD AS:
Chester - Butler
The King's Thief (1955)
APPEREAD AS:
Servant (uncredited)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
5.6
APPEREAD AS:
Walter's Butler (uncredited)