Leo G. Carroll
Acting
Biography
Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films - Rebecca, Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Strangers on a Train, and North by Northwest - and the television series Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Born: October 25, 1886
Place of Birth: Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Known For
North by Northwest
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
The Happy Years
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Strangers on a Train
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
Waterloo Bridge
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Captains Courageous
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Spellbound
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
We're No Angels
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
Wuthering Heights
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Filmography
as Self - (archive footage)
as Arnold
as Alexander Waverly
as Alexander Waverly
as Self (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Alexander Waverly
as Trevor Winthrop
as Alexander Waverly
as Alexander Waverly
as Alexander Waverly
as Alexander Waverly
as O'Shea
as Alexander Waverly
as Alexander Waverly
as Bertil Jacobsson
as Father Fitzgibbon
as Cady
as Prof. Logan
as Rev. Dr. Mosby
as Major Downey
as Professor
as Mr. Gingery
as Caesar
as Prof. Gerald Deemer
as Self
as Felix Ducotel
as Mr. Mums
as Col. Henry Lenbridge
as Raoul Dondel
as Henry Whitfield
as William Penn
as Uncle Bill Swift
as Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
as Sen. Morton
as Father Rector Paul Duquesne
as Mr. Hopkins
as Mr. Massoula
as Proutie
as Bellingham
as Very Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt
as Professor White
as Duncan
as Father Moynihan
as Jarvis
as Sir Joseph
as Matt Goodgroome
as Professor Wieck
as Capt. Fortune
as Dr. Murchison
as Col. Hammersohn
as Delbridge
as Captain George Melbeck
as Angus 'Sandy' McKay
as Craven
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Professor Gordon
as Dr. Baker
as Lord Hastings
as Louis Santelle
as Sir Edward Coke
as Joseph
as Henry Seaton
as Marley's Ghost
as Correy
as Burns (uncredited)
as Smith (as Leo Carroll)
as Joseph B. Tate
as Dr. Harvester
as Mr. Manning
as Dr. Masters
as Dr. Ford-Waterlow
as Kruger, #117 aka Bertram Church (uncredited)
as Phelps
as George the waiter