One of the most indispensable of character actors, Leo G. Carroll was already involved in the business of acting as a schoolboy in Gilbert & Sullivan productions. Aged 16, he portrayed an old man in 'Liberty Hall'. In spite of the fact, that he came from a military family, and , perhaps, because of his experience during World War I, he decided ...
October 16, 1972, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Profession
Actor
Nationality
British
Spouse
Edith Nancy de Silva (m. 1926–1972)
Parents
Catherine Carroll, William Carroll
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Movies
North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Spellbound, Rebecca, Suspicion, Tarantula, The Paradine Case, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, We're No Angels, The Parent Trap, The Bad and the Beautiful, Wuthering Heights, Father of the Bride, The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The House on 92nd Street, A Chri...
TV Shows
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Going My Way, Topper, Channing
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Trademark
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Craggy face
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Fatherly patrician characters
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Has played in more Alfred Hitchcock films (Rebecca, Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Strangers On A Train, and North By Northwest) than any other actor except Hitchcock himself (cameos in most of his films since his 1926 The Lodger).
Fought in the British army during WW I and was seriously wounded.
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He appeared as Laurence Olivier's manservant in The Green Bay Tree at Broadway's Cort Theatre in the 1933-1934 season, in which Olivier co-starred with his real-life first wife, Jill Esmond. The play, directed by the legendary Jed Harris, was a hit, playing for 166 performances. The Green Bay Tree, written by Mordaunt Shairp, was one of the first plays to deal with the topic of homosexuality.
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Made his Broadway debut in K.G. Sowerby's play Rutherford & Son at the Little Theatre on December 24, 1912. He last appeared on the Great White Way over 40 years later in Emlyn Williams's Someone Waiting at the John Golden Theatre, a flop which opened and closed after 15 performances in February 1956.
$8 Million
