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 Anthony's 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
- 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)
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Pale Tom (uncredited)
- The Affairs of Martha as The Butler (uncredited)
- This Above All as Policeman with Rector
- What's Cookin'? as Butler
1941
- Suspicion as The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
- That Hamilton Woman as Orderly (uncredited)
- Nice Girl?
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Mate Dusty Rhodes
- Confirm or Deny as Sidney
- West Point Widow as Simpson
- Tuxedo Junction as Jenkins
- Accent on Love as Flowers
- Private Nurse as Smithton - the Butler
1940
- Rebecca as Ben
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
- Hired Wife as Peterson - Butler
- Sky Murder as Sutter - Grand's Butler
- Private Affairs as Casper the Butler
- In Old Missouri as Haskins
1939
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Hugo's Servant (uncredited)
- Raffles as Bingham's Secretary
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Jameson
- Five Little Peppers And How They Grew as Martin
- Fast and Loose as Craddock
- Beauty for the Asking as Peters (uncredited)
- The Zero Hour as Butler
- Stronger Than Desire as Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
1938
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Zorka's Butler
- Blond Cheat as Meggs (uncredited)
- Bulldog Drummond in Africa as Butler Phillips
- Hold That Kiss as Gibley
1937
- Angel
- The Emperor's Candlesticks as Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Ames
- Hitting a New High as Jervons
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as William - Butler (uncredited)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
- Night of Mystery as Lister
1936
- Wife vs. Secretary as Taggart (uncredited)
- Little Miss Nobody as Butler
- A Woman Rebels as Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
- Strike Me Pink as Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
- Small Town Girl as Concierge (uncredited)
- The Luckiest Girl in the World as Butler
- Trouble for Two as Valet (Uncredited)
- Bunker Bean as Kent's Butler
1935
- Our Little Girl as Jackson
- Here's to Romance as Buttler
- Two for Tonight as Mr. Myers' Butler
- Hold 'Em Yale as Langdonn
- Ginger as Gwynne (uncredited)
1934
- The Age of Innocence as The Butler
- The Little Minister as Hendry Munn
- Gambling Lady as Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
- Double Door as William
- I Sell Anything as Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
- His Greatest Gamble as Alfred
- Smarty as Tilford - Tony's Butler
1933
- Infernal Machine as Hans
- A Lady's Profession as Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
- King of the Jungle as Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
- 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
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)
- This Reckless Age as Braithwaite (uncredited)
- The Crash as Fair's Butler
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
- Nice Women as Connors, Butler
- Working Girls as Boyd's Butler (uncredited)
- Honor Among Lovers as Forbes (uncredited)
1930
- Laughter as Benham, Gibson's Butler