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)
- The Lady and the Bandit as Jailer
- Kind Lady as Postman
1949
- Slightly French as Wilson (uncredited)
1947
- Unconquered as London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon
- Moss Rose as Coroner (uncredited)
- The Exile as Cavalier (uncredited)
1946
- Tomorrow Is Forever as Hamilton Employee
1944
- Gaslight as Guide (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as The Police Constable (uncredited)
- Ministry of Fear as Porter (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)
- Confirm or Deny as Sidney
- West Point Widow as Simpson
- Private Nurse as Smithton - the Butler
- Tuxedo Junction as Jenkins
- Accent on Love as Flowers
- Nice Girl?
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Mate Dusty Rhodes
1940
- Rebecca as Ben
- In Old Missouri as Haskins
- Sky Murder as Sutter - Grand's Butler
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
- Private Affairs as Casper the Butler
- Hired Wife as Peterson - Butler
1939
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Hugo's Servant (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Jameson
- Five Little Peppers And How They Grew as Martin
- Raffles as Bingham's Secretary
- The Zero Hour as Butler
- Beauty for the Asking as Peters (uncredited)
- Fast and Loose as Craddock
- Stronger Than Desire as Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
1938
- Bulldog Drummond in Africa as Butler Phillips
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Zorka's Butler
- Blond Cheat as Meggs (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Gibley
1937
- Angel
- Hitting a New High as Jervons
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Ames
- The Emperor's Candlesticks as Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as William - Butler (uncredited)
- Night of Mystery as Lister
1936
- Wife vs. Secretary as Taggart (uncredited)
- Small Town Girl as Concierge (uncredited)
- A Woman Rebels as Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
- Trouble for Two as Valet (Uncredited)
- Strike Me Pink as Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
- The Luckiest Girl in the World as Butler
- Bunker Bean as Kent's Butler
- Little Miss Nobody as Butler
1935
- Two for Tonight as Mr. Myers' Butler
- Our Little Girl as Brent's Butler
- Ginger as Gwynne (uncredited)
- Here's to Romance as Buttler
- Hold 'Em Yale as Langdonn
1934
- Double Door as William
- The Little Minister as Hendry Munn
- Smarty as Tilford - Tony's Butler
- The Age of Innocence as The Butler
- Gambling Lady as Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
- His Greatest Gamble as Alfred
- I Sell Anything as Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
1933
- Bombshell as Winters
- Infernal Machine as Hans
- The Avenger as Talbot
- Ann Carver's Profession as Melville, the Butler (uncredited)
- King of the Jungle as Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
- The Worst Woman in Paris? as Chumley - the Butler
- A Lady's Profession as Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
1932
- Shanghai Express as Carey (uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
- Call Her Savage as Jackson, Randall'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)
- Honor Among Lovers as Forbes (uncredited)
- Nice Women as Connors, Butler
1930
- Laughter as Benham, Gibson's Butler