Leonard Carey

Born: 1887-02-25

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

as Ben
Released: 1940-03-23

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in...

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Gaslight

as Guide (uncredited)
Released: 1944-05-04

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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Heaven Can Wait

as Flogdell (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-05

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he...

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Suspicion

as The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
Released: 1941-11-14

Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie...

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Dr. Edmund Simmons (uncredited)
Released: 1952-10-08

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1931-12-24

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He...

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Mrs. Miniver

as Chandler (uncredited)
Released: 1942-07-03

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her...

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Shanghai Express

as Carey (uncredited)
Released: 1932-02-12

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a...

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Wife vs. Secretary

as Taggart (uncredited)
Released: 1936-02-28

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his...

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Unconquered

as London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon
Released: 1947-10-10

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to...

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While the City Sleeps

as Walter's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1956-04-19

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Hugo's Servant (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-24

On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral...

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That Hamilton Woman

as Orderly (uncredited)
Released: 1941-04-03

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Pale Tom (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-29

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew...

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Angel

as uncredited
Released: 1937-10-29

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

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Bombshell

as Winters
Released: 1933-10-13

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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Trouble for Two

as Valet (Uncredited)
Released: 1936-05-29

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London...

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This Above All

as Policeman with Rector
Released: 1942-05-12

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF...

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Tomorrow Is Forever

as Hamilton Employee
Released: 1946-02-20

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war....

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Confirm or Deny

as Sidney
Released: 1941-12-12

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate...

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The Avenger

as Talbot
Released: 1933-08-10

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had...

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Kind Lady

as Postman
Released: 1951-06-20

Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years,...

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Fast and Loose

as Craddock
Released: 1939-02-17

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

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Merrily We Go to Hell

as Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1932-06-10

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan...

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The King's Thief

as Servant (uncredited)
Released: 1955-08-05

An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.

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A Dispatch from Reuters

as Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-19

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news...

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The Invisible Man's Revenge

as The Police Constable (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-09

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner...

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Night of Mystery

as Lister
Released: 1937-05-21

One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance

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Beauty for the Asking

as Peters (uncredited)
Released: 1939-02-24

Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job...

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Bulldog Drummond in Africa

as Butler Phillips
Released: 1938-08-05

Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to...

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The Little Minister

as Hendry Munn
Released: 1934-12-28

The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village...

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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

as Martin
Released: 1939-08-22

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's...

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Raffles

as Bingham's Secretary
Released: 1939-11-11

Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring...

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Hold That Kiss

as Gibley
Released: 1938-05-13

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely...

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My Dear Miss Aldrich

as William - Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1937-09-17

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

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The Zero Hour

as Butler
Released: 1939-05-26

A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through...

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Smarty

as Tilford - Tony's Butler
Released: 1934-05-19

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in...

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Laughter

as Benham, Gibson's Butler
Released: 1930-09-24

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows...

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Blond Cheat

as Meggs (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-17

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan...

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Thunder in the East

as Dr. Paling
Released: 1952-12-04

During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded...

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Sally, Irene and Mary

as Zorka's Butler
Released: 1938-03-04

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old...

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

as Ames
Released: 1937-02-19

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

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The Lady and the Bandit

as Jailer
Released: 1951-08-13

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

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Gambling Lady

as Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
Released: 1934-03-08

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike...

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The Exile

as Cavalier (uncredited)
Released: 1947-10-17

In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his...

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Call Her Savage

as Jackson, Randall's Butler (Uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-24

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....

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Private Affairs

as Casper the Butler
Released: 1940-07-05

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up...

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Hitting a New High

as Jervons
Released: 1937-12-24

A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges...

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Moss Rose

as Coroner (uncredited)
Released: 1947-05-30

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body....

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Ginger

as Gwynne (uncredited)
Released: 1935-07-04

Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down...

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Infernal Machine

as Hans
Released: 1933-04-08

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who...

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A Woman Rebels

as Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1936-11-06

A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and...

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Bunker Bean

as Kent's Butler
Released: 1936-06-26

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

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Small Town Girl

as Concierge (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-10

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear....

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This Reckless Age

as Braithwaite (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-09

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their...

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Hired Wife

as Peterson - Butler
Released: 1940-09-13

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect...

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The Age of Innocence

as The Butler
Released: 1934-09-14

An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.

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A Lady's Profession

as Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-03

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

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West Point Widow

as Simpson
Released: 1941-06-20

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant,...

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Double Door

as William
Released: 1934-05-04

A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother...

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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

as Jameson
Released: 1939-01-27

Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

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Stronger Than Desire

as Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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Here's to Romance

as Buttler
Released: 1935-10-04

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to...

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Beg, Borrow or Steal

as James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1937-12-03

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to...

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Sky Murder

as Sutter - Grand's Butler
Released: 1940-09-27

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of...

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Nice Girl?

as uncredited
Released: 1941-02-21

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his...

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Tuxedo Junction

as Jenkins
Released: 1941-11-25

The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks...

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Little Miss Nobody

as Butler
Released: 1936-06-05

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

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Slightly French

as Wilson (uncredited)
Released: 1949-02-02

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a...

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The Affairs of Martha

as The Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1942-06-21

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their...

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Accent on Love

as Flowers
Released: 1941-07-11

A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on...

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I Sell Anything

as Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
Released: 1934-10-20

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

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The Emperor's Candlesticks

as Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
Released: 1937-07-02

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

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Hold 'Em Yale

as Langdonn
Released: 1935-04-27

A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds...

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Our Little Girl

as Brent's Butler
Released: 1935-01-01

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to...

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His Greatest Gamble

as Alfred
Released: 1934-08-10

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

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Working Girls

as Boyd's Butler
Released: 1931-12-12

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister...

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Ann Carver's Profession

as Melville
Released: 1933-06-09

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney...

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What's Cookin'?

as Butler
Released: 1942-02-20

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha...

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In Old Missouri

as Haskins
Released: 1940-04-17

The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find...

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King of the Jungle

as Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-10

A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to...

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Honor Among Lovers

as Forbes, Butler
Released: 1931-02-28

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character...

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Strike Me Pink

as Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
Released: 1936-01-24

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

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Private Nurse

as Smithton - the Butler
Released: 1941-08-22

In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware...

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The Crash

as Fair's Butler
Released: 1932-10-09

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips...

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Nice Women

as Connors, Butler
Released: 1931-11-28

A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.

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The Worst Woman in Paris?

as Chumley - the Butler
Released: 1933-12-03

Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US....

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Moon Over Her Shoulder

as Mate Dusty Rhodes
Released: 1941-10-23

Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a...

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Climax!

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Adventures of Superman

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-09-19

Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a...

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Telephone Time

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-04-08

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from...

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The Millionaire

as Chester - Butler
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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