Leonard Carey
Birthday: 1887-02-25
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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).
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Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
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Tuxedo Junction
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and h...
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Suspicion
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gamblin...
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Nice Women
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love....
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who le...
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Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....
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The Little Minister
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Th...
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Beauty for the Asking
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she ...
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Nice Girl?
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built ...
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Angel
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man....
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Hitting a New High
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her M...
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Ben...
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....
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The Age of Innocence
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan....
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The King's Thief
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II....
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Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf...
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Shanghai Express
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
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Accent on Love
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his sp...
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Stronger Than Desire
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing....
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This Reckless Age
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son...
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Smarty
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being...
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His Greatest Gamble
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold....
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular bo...
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Slightly French
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "Fren...
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Hold That Kiss
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. C...
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry ...
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue ...
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While the City Sleeps
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"....
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Moss Rose
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckil...
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Our Little Girl
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend m...
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Private Nurse
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that he...
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington....
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters....
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Blond Cheat
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan duri...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of...
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A Woman Rebels
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and en...
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Strike Me Pink
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters....
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King of the Jungle
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilizati...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
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Raffles
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. M...
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Confirm or Deny
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuf...
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Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion....
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The Zero Hour
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their s...
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Laughter
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired ...
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Little Miss Nobody
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past....
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Call Her Savage
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, ...
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What's Cookin'?
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Cour...
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Moon Over Her Shoulder
Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival...
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A Lady's Profession
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse....
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I Sell Anything
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?...
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Wife vs. Secretary
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his att...
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Here's to Romance
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take...
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Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his ...
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Small Town Girl
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One ...
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A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
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Sky Murder
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth ...
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In Old Missouri
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is...
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Gambling Lady
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's...
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Ginger
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian ...
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Infernal Machine
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets f...
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That Hamilton Woman
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir Willi...
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Heaven Can Wait
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is ...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...
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Working Girls
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June...
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The Affairs of Martha
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids i...
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Double Door
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sis...
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Bunker Bean
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon....
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Honor Among Lovers
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who...
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West Point Widow
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but th...
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The Crash
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips fro...
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The Worst Woman in Paris?
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Bare...
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The Lady and the Bandit
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England....
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The Exile
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by...
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Tomorrow Is Forever
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Eliza...
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Hold 'Em Yale
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that...
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Unconquered
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to esc...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He bel...
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Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love...
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Kind Lady
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she e...
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This Above All
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF servi...
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Thunder in the East
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plan...
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Trouble for Two
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London dis...
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Merrily We Go to Hell
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prenti...
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord....
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The Avenger
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him...
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Two for Tonight
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days....
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being mar...
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Strangers on a Train
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...
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Ann Carver's Profession
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshado...
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Ministry of Fear
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so san...
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