Leo G. Carroll
October 25, 1886
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 f…
Known For
18 titles
North by Northwest
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Rebecca
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Strangers on a Train
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Spellbound
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Suspicion
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
The Parent Trap
Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
Wuthering Heights
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
The Bad and the Beautiful
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Father of the Bride
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
The Paradine Case
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Tarantula
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
The Prize
As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.
The House on 92nd Street
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Sadie McKee
A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.