Leonard Carey

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).

Known For

Ben

Rebecca

Jenkins

Tuxedo Junction

The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)

Suspicion

Connors, Butler

Nice Women

The Police Constable (uncredited)

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Winters

Bombshell

Hendry Munn

The Little Minister

Peters (uncredited)

Beauty for the Asking

Nice Girl?

Angel

Jervons

Hitting a New High

Pale Tom (uncredited)

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)

The Emperor's Candlesticks

The Butler

The Age of Innocence

Servant (uncredited)

The King's Thief

Chandler (uncredited)

Mrs. Miniver

Carey (uncredited)

Shanghai Express

Flowers

Accent on Love

Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)

Stronger Than Desire

Braithwaite (uncredited)

This Reckless Age

Tilford - Tony's Butler

Smarty

Alfred

His Greatest Gamble

Martin

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

Lister

Night of Mystery

Wilson (uncredited)

Slightly French

Melville

Ann Carver's Profession

Gibley

Hold That Kiss

Zorka's Butler

Sally, Irene and Mary

Butler Phillips

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Walter's Butler (uncredited)

While the City Sleeps

Coroner (uncredited)

Moss Rose

Brent's Butler

Our Little Girl

Smithton - the Butler

Private Nurse

Jameson

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

William - Butler (uncredited)

My Dear Miss Aldrich

Meggs (uncredited)

Blond Cheat

James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)

A Woman Rebels

Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)

Strike Me Pink

Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)

King of the Jungle

Craddock

Fast and Loose

Hugo's Servant (uncredited)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Bingham's Secretary

Raffles

Sidney

Confirm or Deny

Guide (uncredited)

Gaslight

Butler

The Zero Hour

Benham, Gibson's Butler

Laughter

Butler

Little Miss Nobody

Jackson, Randall's Butler (Uncredited)

Call Her Savage

Butler

What's Cookin'?

Mate Dusty Rhodes

Moon Over Her Shoulder

Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)

A Lady's Profession

Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur

I Sell Anything

Taggart (uncredited)

Wife vs. Secretary

Buttler

Here's to Romance

Peterson - Butler

Hired Wife

Concierge (uncredited)

Small Town Girl

Delane's Secretary (uncredited)

A Dispatch from Reuters

Sutter - Grand's Butler

Sky Murder

Haskins

In Old Missouri

Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)

Gambling Lady

Gwynne (uncredited)

Ginger

Hans

Infernal Machine

Orderly (uncredited)

That Hamilton Woman

Flogdell (uncredited)

Heaven Can Wait

Dr. Edmund Simmons (uncredited)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Boyd's Butler (uncredited)

Working Girls

The Butler (uncredited)

The Affairs of Martha

William

Double Door

Kent's Butler

Bunker Bean

Forbes (uncredited)

Honor Among Lovers

Simpson

West Point Widow

Fair's Butler

The Crash

Chumley - the Butler

The Worst Woman in Paris?

Jailer

The Lady and the Bandit

Cavalier (uncredited)

The Exile

Hamilton Employee

Tomorrow Is Forever

Langdonn

Hold 'Em Yale

London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon

Unconquered

Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Casper the Butler

Private Affairs

Postman

Kind Lady

Policeman with Rector

This Above All

Dr. Paling

Thunder in the East

Valet (Uncredited)

Trouble for Two

Prentice's Butler (uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

Ames

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Talbot

The Avenger

Mr. Myers' Butler

Two for Tonight

Butler

The Luckiest Girl in the World

Anthonys' Butler (uncredited)

Strangers on a Train

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

91

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-02-25

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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