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Leo G. Carroll

Has played in more Alfred Hitchcock films (Rebecca, Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Strangers On A Train, and North By Northwest) than any other actor except Hitchcock himself (cameos in most of his films since his 1926 The Lodger).
Fatherly patrician characters
Craggy face

Fought in the British army during WW I and was seriously wounded.
Born to a wealthy English Catholic family, he was named after the reigning Pope at the time of his birth, Leo XIII (1810-1903, reigned 1878-1903).
He appeared in six films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, more than anyone other than Hitchcock and Clare Greet: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Strangers on a Train (1951) and North by Northwest (1959).
Appeared as Laurence Olivier's manservant in 'The Green Bay Tree' at Broadway's Cort Theatre in the 1933-34 season, in which Olivier co-starred with his real-life first wife, Jill Esmond. The play, directed by the legendary Jed Harris, was a hit, playing for 166 performances. Written by Mordaunt Shairp, it was one of the first plays to deal with the topic of homosexuality.
Made his Broadway debut in K.G. Sowerby's play "Rutherford & Son" at the Little Theatre on 12/24/1912. He last appeared on the Great White Way over 40 years later in Emlyn Williams's "Someone Waiting' at the John Golden Theatre, a flop that opened and closed after 15 performances in February 1956.