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
- The Exile as Cavalier (uncredited)
- Moss Rose as Coroner (uncredited)
1946
- Tomorrow Is Forever as Hamilton Employee
1944
- Gaslight as Guide (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as The Police Constable (uncredited)
1943
- Heaven Can Wait as Flogdell (uncredited)
1942
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Pale Tom (uncredited)
- Mrs. Miniver as Chandler (uncredited)
- The Affairs of Martha as The Butler (uncredited)
- This Above All as Policeman with Rector
- What's Cookin'? as Butler
1941
- Moon Over Her Shoulder as Mate Dusty Rhodes
- Suspicion as The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
- Private Nurse as Smithton - the Butler
- Nice Girl?
- Accent on Love as Flowers
- That Hamilton Woman as Orderly (uncredited)
- West Point Widow as Simpson
- Tuxedo Junction as Jenkins
- Confirm or Deny as Sidney
1940
- A Dispatch from Reuters as Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
- Rebecca as Ben
- 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)
- Raffles as Bingham's Secretary
- Beauty for the Asking as Peters (uncredited)
- The Zero Hour as Butler
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Jameson
- Fast and Loose as Craddock
- Stronger Than Desire as Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
- Five Little Peppers And How They Grew as Martin
1938
- Bulldog Drummond in Africa as Butler Phillips
- Hold That Kiss as Gibley
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Zorka's Butler
- Blond Cheat as Meggs (uncredited)
1937
- Angel
- Hitting a New High as Jervons
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Ames
- My Dear Miss Aldrich as William - Butler (uncredited)
- Night of Mystery as Lister
- The Emperor's Candlesticks as Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
1936
- The Luckiest Girl in the World as Butler
- Bunker Bean as Kent's Butler
- A Woman Rebels as Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
- Small Town Girl as Concierge (uncredited)
- Strike Me Pink as Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
- Trouble for Two as Valet (Uncredited)
- Wife vs. Secretary as Taggart (uncredited)
- Little Miss Nobody as Butler
1935
- Ginger as Gwynne (uncredited)
- Two for Tonight as Mr. Myers' Butler
- Hold 'Em Yale as Langdonn
- Our Little Girl as Brent's Butler
- Here's to Romance as Buttler
1934
- The Age of Innocence as The Butler
- Double Door as William
- Smarty as Tilford - Tony's Butler
- The Little Minister as Hendry Munn
- Gambling Lady as Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
- His Greatest Gamble as Alfred
- I Sell Anything as Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
1933
- The Worst Woman in Paris? as Chumley - the Butler
- Bombshell as Winters
- King of the Jungle as Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
- Ann Carver's Profession as Melville, the Butler (uncredited)
- Infernal Machine as Hans
- A Lady's Profession as Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
- The Avenger as Talbot
1932
- The Crash as Fair's Butler
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
- Shanghai Express as Carey (uncredited)
- This Reckless Age as Braithwaite (uncredited)
- Call Her Savage as Jackson, Randall's Butler (Uncredited)
1931
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
- Honor Among Lovers as Forbes (uncredited)
- Working Girls as Boyd's Butler (uncredited)
- Nice Women as Connors, Butler
1930
- Laughter as Benham, Gibson's Butler