Leo G. Carroll

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

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North by Northwest

North by Northwest

1959 · 2h 16m · Movie

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.

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Rebecca

Rebecca

1940 · 2h 10m · Movie

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.

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Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

1951 · 1h 41m · Movie

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.

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Spellbound

Spellbound

1945 · 1h 51m · Movie

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

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Suspicion

Suspicion

1941 · 1h 39m · Movie

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.

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The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap

1961 · 2h 9m · Movie

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

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The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952 · 1h 58m · Movie

An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.

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Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

1950 · 1h 32m · Movie

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.

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The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case

1947 · 2h 5m · Movie

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

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Tarantula

Tarantula

1955 · 1h 20m · Movie

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.

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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951 · 1h 28m · Movie

The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.

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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952 · 1h 54m · Movie

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.

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The Prize

The Prize

1963 · 2h 14m · Movie

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

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The House on 92nd Street

The House on 92nd Street

1945 · 1h 28m · Movie

Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934 · 1h 49m · Movie

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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Sadie McKee

Sadie McKee

1934 · 1h 33m · Movie

A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.

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