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Leo G. Carroll
Leo G. Carroll
	Carroll in 1951
Born	Leo Grattan Carroll; 25 October 1886; Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England
Died	16 October 1972 (aged 85); Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting place	Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
Other names	Leo Carroll
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1912–1914; 1919–1972
Spouse	Edith Nancy de Silva Carroll; (m. 1926)
Children	1

Leo Grattan Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor.^[1] In a career of more than 40 years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest and in three television series, Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Early life

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".

Stage career

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.^[2] Carroll saw action in France, Salonika and Palestine during the war; he was badly wounded while serving in the last.^[2] After his recovery and discharge, he again took up acting in December 1919.^[2]

He then performed in London and on Broadway.^[1] His American stage debut came in The Vortex.^[3] 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"^[3] Trump in the Broadway play The Green Bay Tree^[4] (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.^{[citation needed]}

After the production closed, he starred in the title role in John P. Marquand's The Late George Apley.^[3] In 1947 he starred in John Van Druten's The Druid Circle at the Morosco Theatre.

Films and television

Carroll, who had moved to Hollywood, made his film debut in Sadie McKee (1934). He often played doctors or butlers, but he made appearances as Marley's ghost in A Christmas Carol (1938) and as Joseph in Wuthering Heights (1939). He appeared in two Charlie Chan films, City in Darkness (1939) as a shady French locksmith, followed by a role in Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940) as a passenger on a ship. In the original version of Father of the Bride (1950), he played an unctuous wedding caterer. In the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel he played a sympathetic German field marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, presenting him as a tragic, resigned figure completely disillusioned with Hitler.

Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Strangers on a Train (1951) and North by Northwest (1959). He appeared in more Hitchcock films than anyone other than Clare Greet (1871–1939) (who appeared in seven) and Hitchcock himself, whose cameos were a trademark. As with earlier roles, he was often cast as doctors or other authority figures (such as the spymaster "Professor" in North by Northwest). Carroll eventually played a character based on Hitchcock himself in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

Carroll had a central role in the highly rated movie We're No Angels (1955) with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Basil Rathbone, among others.

In addition to appearing as Rev. Mosby with actress Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap (1961), Carroll is remembered for his role as the frustrated banker haunted by the ghosts of George and Marion Kerby in the television series Topper (1953–1956), with co-stars Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling and Lee Patrick.^[5]^{: 1097–1098} He appeared as the older Father Fitzgibbon from 1962 to 1963 in ABC's Going My Way, a series about two Roman Catholic priests at St. Dominic's parish in New York City. In 1963–1964, he portrayed John Miller in Channing on ABC.^[5] Carroll subsequently starred as spymaster Alexander Waverly on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968).^[5]^: 650 Several U.N.C.L.E. films were derived from the series, and a spin-off television series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. in 1966.^[5]^: 393 He was one of the first actors to appear in two different television series as the same character.

Carroll appeared in spots on the first two regular episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the series that replaced U.N.C.L.E., and in fact appears as Mr. Waverly in the very first episode party scene where he is seen using a pen communicator to call Kuryakin to report that he believes he has found THRUSH headquarters.

Death

In 1972, Carroll died in Hollywood of cancer-induced pneumonia nine days before his 86th birthday. He is interred at the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.^[6]

In popular culture

Carroll was posthumously referenced in the lyrics of "Science Fiction/Double Feature", the opening song of the musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film adaptation. The song refers to Carroll in connection with his role in the film Tarantula.^[7]

Selected filmography

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
1937	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
1945	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
1948	Enchantment	Proutie	Irving Reis
1950	Father of the Bride	Mr. Massoula	Vincente Minnelli
1950	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
1952	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
1955	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
1961	One Plus One	Professor Logan
1963	The Prize	Count Bertil Jacobsson	Mark Robson
1965	That Funny Feeling	O'Shea	Richard Thorpe
1968	From Nashville with Music	Arnold