Leo G. Carroll

• Name — Leo G. Carroll • Birth Name — Leo Grattan Carroll • Born — 25 October 1886 • Birthplace — Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England • Died — 16 October 1972 • Place of death — Hollywood, California, U.S. • Resting Place — Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California • Other Names — Leo Carroll • Years Active — 1912–1914; 1919–1972 • Occupation — Actor • Children — 1

Carroll was born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, to William and Catherine Carroll. His Roman Catholic parents named him after then-Pope Leo XIII. In 1897, his family lived in York, where his Irish-born father was a foreman in an ordnance store. In the 1901 census for West Ham, Essex, his occupation is listed as "wine trade clerk". In the 1911 census, he is living at the same address and described as a "dramatic agent".

Carroll made his stage debut in 1912. His acting career was on hold during the First World War, when he served in the British Army as a Lieutenant in the London Regiment. Carroll saw action in France, Salonika, and Palestine during the war; he was badly wounded while serving in the last. After his recovery and discharge, he again took up acting in December 1919. He then performed in London and on Broadway. His American stage debut came in The Vortex. In 1933, he was a member of the Manhattan Theatre Repertory Company in the inaugural season of the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. During 1933–34, Carroll had the role of "impeccable valet" Trump in the Broadway play The Green Bay Tree (which has no relation to the novel by Louis Bromfield apart from the shared title), and in 1941 starred with Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn in Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street (better known as Gaslight), which ran for three years at the Golden Theatre on West 45th Street in New York City. After the production closed, he starred in the title role in John P. Marquand's The Late George Apley. In 1947 he starred in John Van Druten's The Druid Circle at the Morosco Theatre.

In 1972, Carroll died aged 85 in Hollywood, following a long illness. He is interred at the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

• Year — Film — Role — Director — Notes • 1934 — Sadie McKee — Phelps Finnegan — Clarence Brown • Stamboul Quest — Kruger, #117 aka Bertram Church — Sam Wood Jack Conway (uncredited) — Uncredited • The Barretts of Wimpole Street — Dr. Ford-Waterlow — Sidney Franklin • Outcast Lady — Dr. Masters — Robert Z. Leonard • 1935 — Clive of India — Mr. Manning — Richard Boleslawski • The Right to Live — Dr. Harvester — William Keighley • Murder on a Honeymoon — Joseph B. Tate — Lloyd Corrigan • The Casino Murder Case — Smith — Edwin L. Marin • 1936 — The Man I Marry — Mr. Furthermore — Ralph Murphy — Uncredited • 1937 — Captains Courageous — Burns — Victor Fleming — Uncredited • London by Night — Correy — Wilhelm Thiele • 1938 — A Christmas Carol — Marley's Ghost — Edwin L. Marin • 1939 — Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police — Henry Seaton — James P. Hogan • Wuthering Heights — Joseph — William Wyler • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex — Sir Edward Coke — Michael Curtiz • Tower of London — Lord Hastings — Rowland V. Lee • Charlie Chan in City in Darkness — Louis Santelle — Herbert I. Leeds • 1940 — Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise — Professor Gordon — Eugene Forde • Waterloo Bridge — Policeman — Mervyn LeRoy — Uncredited • Rebecca — Dr. Baker — Alfred Hitchcock • 1941 — Scotland Yard — Craven — Norman Foster • This Woman Is Mine — Angus 'Sandy' McKay — Frank Lloyd • Bahama Passage — Delbridge — Edward H. Griffith • Suspicion — Captain Melbeck — Alfred Hitchcock • 1945 — The House on 92nd Street — Col. Hammersohn — Henry Hathaway • Spellbound — Dr. Murchison — Alfred Hitchcock • 1947 — Time Out of Mind — Capt. Fortune — Robert Siodmak • Song of Love — Professor Wieck — Clarence Brown • The Paradine Case — Sir Joseph — Alfred Hitchcock • Forever Amber — Matt Goodgroome — Otto Preminger • 1948 — So Evil My Love — Jarvis — Lewis Allen • Enchantment — Proutie — Irving Reis • 1950 — Father of the Bride — Mr. Massoula — Vincente Minnelli • The Happy Years — The Old Roman — William Wellman • 1951 — The First Legion — Father Rector Paul Duquesne — Douglas Sirk • The Desert Fox — Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt — Henry Hathaway • Strangers on a Train — Sen. Morton — Alfred Hitchcock • 1952 — The Snows of Kilimanjaro — Uncle Bill — Henry King • The Bad and the Beautiful — Henry Whitfield — Vincente Minnelli • 1953 — Treasure of the Golden Condor — Raoul Dondel — Delmer Daves • Rogue's March — Col. Henry Lenbridge — Geoffrey Barkas • Young Bess — Mr. Mums — George Sidney • 1955 — We're No Angels — Felix Ducotel — Michael Curtiz • Tarantula — Prof. Gerald Deemer — Jack Arnold • 1956 — The Swan — Caesar — Charles Vidor • 1959 — North by Northwest — the Professor — Alfred Hitchcock • 1961 — The Parent Trap — Rev. Dr. Mosby — David Swift • 1+1 (Exploring the Kinsey Report) — Professor Logan — Arch Oboler • 1963 — The Prize — Count Bertil Jacobsson — Mark Robson • 1965 — That Funny Feeling — O'Shea — Richard Thorpe • 1968 — From Nashville with Music — Arnold — Eddie Crandall, Robert Patrick

• To Trap a Spy (1964) • The Spy with My Face (1965) • One Spy Too Many (1966) • One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) • The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) • The Karate Killers (1967) • The Helicopter Spies (1968) • How to Steal the World (1968)