Leonard Carey
Born: 1887-02-25 in London, England, UK
Died: 1977-09-11
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
1956
- Telephone Time
- While the City Sleeps as Walter's Butler (uncredited)
1955
- The Millionaire as Chester - Butler
- The King's Thief as Servant (uncredited)
1954
1952
- Adventures of Superman
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro as Dr. Edmund Simmons (uncredited)
- Thunder in the East as Dr. Paling
1951
- Strangers on a Train as Anthonys' Butler (uncredited)
- Kind Lady as Postman
- The Lady and the Bandit as Jailer
1949
- Slightly French as Wilson (uncredited)
1947
- Unconquered as London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon
- Forever Amber
- The Exile as Cavalier (uncredited)
- Moss Rose as Coroner (uncredited)
1946
- Tomorrow Is Forever as Hamilton Employee
1944
- Gaslight as Guide (uncredited)
- Ministry of Fear as Porter (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as The Police Constable (uncredited)
1943
- Heaven Can Wait as Flogdell (uncredited)
1942
- Mrs. Miniver as Chandler (uncredited)
- This Above All as Policeman with Rector
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Pale Tom (uncredited)
- The Affairs of Martha as The Butler (uncredited)
- What's Cookin'? as Butler
1941
- Suspicion as The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
- That Hamilton Woman as Orderly (uncredited)
- Nice Girl?
- Confirm or Deny as Sidney
- West Point Widow as Simpson
- Private Nurse as Smithton - the Butler
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Mate Dusty Rhodes
- Accent on Love as Flowers
- Tuxedo Junction as Jenkins
1940
- Rebecca as Ben
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
- Sky Murder as Sutter - Grand's Butler
- Hired Wife as Peterson - Butler
- Private Affairs as Casper the Butler
- In Old Missouri as Haskins
1939
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Hugo's Servant (uncredited)
- Fast and Loose as Craddock
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Jameson
- Five Little Peppers And How They Grew as Martin
- Raffles as Bingham's Secretary
- Beauty for the Asking as Peters (uncredited)
- Stronger Than Desire as Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
- The Zero Hour as Butler
1938
- Blond Cheat as Meggs (uncredited)
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Zorka's Butler
- Hold That Kiss as Gibley
- Bulldog Drummond in Africa as Butler Phillips
1937
- The Emperor's Candlesticks as Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
- Angel
- Hitting a New High as Jervons
- Night of Mystery as Lister
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as William - Butler (uncredited)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Ames
1936
- Wife vs. Secretary as Taggart (uncredited)
- Small Town Girl as Concierge (uncredited)
- A Woman Rebels as Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
- Strike Me Pink as Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
- Little Miss Nobody as Butler
- Trouble for Two as Valet (Uncredited)
- The Luckiest Girl in the World as Butler
- Bunker Bean as Kent's Butler
1935
- Our Little Girl as Jackson
- Two for Tonight as Mr. Myers' Butler
- Here's to Romance as Buttler
- Hold 'Em Yale as Langdonn
- Ginger as Gwynne (uncredited)
1934
- Gambling Lady as Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
- The Little Minister as Hendry Munn
- The Age of Innocence as The Butler
- Double Door as William
- Smarty as Tilford - Tony's Butler
- I Sell Anything as Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
- His Greatest Gamble as Alfred
1933
- A Lady's Profession as Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
- Infernal Machine as Hans
- Ann Carver's Profession as Melville, the Butler (uncredited)
- Bombshell as Winters
- The Worst Woman in Paris? as Chumley - the Butler
- The Avenger as Talbot
- King of the Jungle as Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
1932
- Shanghai Express as Carey (uncredited)
- Call Her Savage as Jackson, Randall's Butler (Uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
- The Crash as Fair's Butler
- This Reckless Age as Braithwaite (uncredited)
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
- Working Girls as Boyd's Butler (uncredited)
- Nice Women as Connors, Butler
- Honor Among Lovers as Forbes (uncredited)
1930
- Laughter as Benham, Gibson's Butler