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