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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).
One of his biggest roles was as "Dusty" in the film, Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941) with John Sutton. Other memorable appearances included roles in The Awful Truth (1937), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) and Thunder in the East (1953).
Carey retired from acting in the late 1950s. He died at aged 90 in Woodland Hills, California. His interment was at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
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1956.
1 TV show
TV
Telephone Time
1956
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hos...
1955.
1 TV show
TV
The Millionaire
1955
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who ins...
1954.
1 TV show
TV
Climax!
1954
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era...
1952.
2 Movies · 1 TV show
TV
Adventures of Superman
1952
With powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, Superman battles for truth and justice.
Thunder in the East
1952
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreemen...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
1951.
2 Movies
The Lady and the Bandit
1951
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Kind Lady
1
1951
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott,...
1949.
1 Movie
Slightly French
1949
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery
1947.
2 Movies
The Exile
1947
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he fa...
Unconquered
1947
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants beg...
1946.
1 Movie
Tomorrow Is Forever
1946
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, was killed in the war. Elizabeth is married to her boss and is the mother of John's son. John has not been known to her, but he is ba...
1944.
2 Movies
Gaslight
3.5
1944
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
5.15
1944
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
1943.
1 Movie
Heaven Can Wait
6.5
1943
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets He...
1942.
3 Movies
This Above All
1942
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice ag...
The Affairs of Martha
1942
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
What's Cookin'?
1942
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor B...
1941.
6 Movies
West Point Widow
1941
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military c...
Suspicion
2
1941
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains...
Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941
Marriage counselor (Sutton) advises his bored wife (Bari) to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman (Dailey).
Accent on Love
1941
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
That Hamilton Woman
1941
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Confirm or Deny
1941
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
1940.
5 Movies
Hired Wife
1940
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorc...
A Dispatch from Reuter's
1940
German Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Sky Murder
1940
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Naz...
Rebecca
5.76
1940
The story of a young woman who married 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 wife needs...
In Old Missouri
1940
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs t...
1939.
7 Movies
Stronger Than Desire
1939
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Raffles
1939
A man is a First Class cricketer. Raffles keeps himself solvent by committing daring robberies. He spends the weekend with Gwen's parents, Lord and Lady Melrose, because he fell in love with her again...
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
Michael Lanyard was forced to steal defense secrets in Washington by the spies.
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
4.88
1939
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the loca...
Fast and Loose
1939
A rare-book dealer (Robert Montgomery) and his wife (Rosalind Russell) tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
The Zero Hour
1939
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
1938.
4 Movies
Blond Cheat
1938
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be remo...
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Hold That Kiss
1938
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is wealthy. There is a lot of comedy.
1937.
5 Movies
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years...
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Hitting a New High
1937
A Paris singer's (Lily Pons) press agent (Jack Oakie) arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
1936.
7 Movies
Little Miss Nobody
1936
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Small Town Girl
1936
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and th...
Wife vs. Secretary
4
1936
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Va...
A Woman Rebels
1936
A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in life is to defy the restrictive and often hypocritical conventions of Victorian England.
Trouble for Two
1936
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member...
1935.
4 Movies
Ginger
1935
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lect...
Our Little Girl
1935
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get...
Here's to Romance
1935
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend...
Hold 'Em Yale
1935
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been le...
1934.
7 Movies
Gambling Lady
1934
Mike Lee's syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town and is least profitable. Lady Lee is the only way she knows to make a living, because her father Mike walked out under pressure to allow cheat...
I Sell Anything
1934
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
The Little Minister
1934
The proper Rev. is the stoic. A priest assigned to a church in a small Scottish village falls in love with a member of the congregation. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relation...
Smarty
1934
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Verno...
His Greatest Gamble
1934
American gambler Philip Eden, who has ambushed his young daughter Alice from his estranged wife Florence, loses all of his money playing roulette in a French casino. In spite of Philip's sporadic inco...
Double Door
1934
Based on a 1933 stage production billed as “The Play That Made Broadway Gasp,” it features an over-the-top performance by Mary Morris (repeating her stage role) as a domineering money-bags whose suppr...
1933.
5 Movies
Ann Carver's Profession
1933
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
Infernal Machine
1933
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to ret...
King of the Jungle
1933
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Bombshell
1933
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
1932.
3 Movies
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania....
Call Her Savage
1932
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She learns the errors of her ways after her marriage fails and she is married to a man who her father disl...
The Crash
1932
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
1931.
3 Movies
Honor Among Lovers
1931
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Working Girls
1931
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. June helps Mae get a job as a stenographer for ...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.17
1931
Dr. is based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. There are two different sides to the man, according to Henry Jekyll. He believes that man can become liberated if he separates the two. He succeeds...
1930.
1 Movie
Laughter
1930
The beauty of the Follies is married to a man older than she is. Morton Gibson was named after him. She refuses the attentions of her long-time friend, the volatile sculptor, because she is tired of t...
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