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Leo G. Carroll is a Actor British born on 25 october 1886 at England (United-kingdom)

Leo G. Carroll

Leo G. Carroll
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Birth name Leo Gratten Carroll
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 25 october 1886 at England (United-kingdom)
Death 16 october 1972 (at 85 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. He was best known for his roles in several Hitchcock films, and in three television series, Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Biography

Leo G. Carroll est né en Angleterre d'une famille catholique d'origine irlandaise (il est prénommé d'après le pape régnant, Léon XIII). Il débute au théâtre en 1912. Son père est militaire, mais Leo, blessé durant la Première Guerre mondiale, ne suit pas la voie paternelle et retourne vers la scène. Il joue dans de nombreuses pièces à Londres, puis à Broadway et enfin à Hollywood en 1933.

En 1934 sa carrière s'oriente vers le cinéma et il fait ses débuts dans Vivre et aimer (Sadie McKee). Suivent plusieurs films, dans lesquels ses personnages de prédilection sont souvent des médecins ou des serviteurs. Il fait une apparition remarquée dans A Christmas Carol (1938), puis dans Les Hauts de Hurlevent (1939).

La renommée de Leo G. Carroll vient surtout de sa participation à six films d'Alfred Hitchcock. Aucun autre acteur n’a participé à autant de films du « maître » (à part Hitchcock lui-même dans ses caméos). Il y joue aussi des docteurs (La Maison du docteur Edwardes), ou des représentants de l’autorité (La Mort aux trousses).

Sa silhouette est déjà très connue du public quand il incarne le rôle de l’espion Alexander Waverly dans Des agents très spéciaux (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), de 1964 à la télévision à 1968. Il tourne d’ailleurs le même personnage en parallèle dans une deuxième série, Annie, agent très spécial (The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.) à partir de 1966. Une autre série télévisée, Topper, avait déjà contribué à sa célébrité aux États-Unis en 1954-55.

Il décède en 1972 d’une pneumonie aggravée par un cancer, quelques jours avant son 86e anniversaire. Il est enterré à Glendale (Californie).

En 1975, il est mentionné dans la chanson "Science fiction / Double feature" du film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Best films

North by Northwest (1959)
(Actor)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
(Actor)
Spellbound (1945)
(Actor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leo G. Carroll (58 films)

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Actor

The Helicopter Spies, 1h35
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Bradford Dillman, Carol Lynley, Lola Albright, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating57% 2.850562.850562.850562.850562.85056
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo, (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) witness the aerial destruction wrought on an African village by Dr. Kharmusi using his newly developed “thermal prism”. U.N.C.L.E. then seeks out notorious safe cracker (and former thermal prism researcher himself) Luther Sebastian to help them obtain the device from Dr. Kharmusi. Sebastian is on an island among a religious group called “The Third Way”, a mystical organization with disciples having – except for Sebastian – platinum white hair and all having a belief that when the “Old Man” in their group finally speaks after twenty years of silence The Third Way will have dominion over the world. Wanted in nearly two dozen countries Sebastian agrees to leave the island and help U.N.C.L.E. in return for world-wide immunity from prosecution.
How to Steal the World, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Eleanor Parker, Barry Sullivan, Leslie Nielsen, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating53% 2.6629152.6629152.6629152.6629152.662915
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) investigate when fellow agent Robert Kingsley (Barry Sullivan) and European general Maximilian Harmon (Leslie Nielsen) disappear. Shortly afterward, five of the world's top scientists are mysteriously abducted. The trail leads to the Himalayas, where Kingsley has set himself up as potential world dictator, hoping to use the combined talents of the scientists to build a device that will spread mind-controlling gas throughout the planet. However, his wife Margitta Kingsley (Eleanor Parker) has different plans for the gas.
The Spy in the Green Hat, 1h32
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Letícia Román, Leo G. Carroll, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating57% 2.8588352.8588352.8588352.8588352.858835
Solo and Kuryakin are assigned to infiltrate a THRUSH secret base located in a Sicillian winery. The base is run by Louis Strago, who in conjunction with former Nazi Dr. von Kronen is planning to detonate atomic bombs in the Atlantic Ocean. The bombs will cause the Gulf Stream to divert, wreaking havoc in Europe and the United States and warming Greenland sufficiently for it to become a strategic new home for THRUSH (“THRUSHland”).
The Karate Killers, 1h32
Directed by Barry Shear
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Kim Darby, Leo G. Carroll, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating53% 2.658962.658962.658962.658962.65896
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) are being attacked with missiles from small helicopters while on their way to see Dr. Simon True. The attackers work for THRUSH and, though they fail to stop the agents, are the titular “Karate Killers.”
One of Our Spies Is Missing, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Maurice Evans, Yvonne Craig, Vera Miles
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating55% 2.760682.760682.760682.760682.76068
Illya Kuryakin is investigating the theft of cats in the Soho area of London, and Napoleon Solo is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of the famous, suddenly youthful appearing, and now missing 83-year-old biologist Benjamin Lancer. Solo contacts Lancer’s daughter Lorelei, a model at the Paris salon of Madame Raine De Sala. De Sala orders her associate Olga and another model Do Do to make sure that Lorelei does not speak to Solo.
One Spy Too Many, 1h42
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, James Hong, David McCallum, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating57% 2.898942.898942.898942.898942.89894
The film opens with Alexander (Rip Torn) stealing a chemical weapon from a military base. The weapon causes an enemy’s troops to lose the will to fight, thereby making conquest in battle far easier. This is part of Alexander’s dual goal: to conquer the world in the manner of Alexander the Great and to break each of the major moral codes in so doing (which essentially means the ten commandments as detailed throughout the movie).
The Spy with My Face, 1h26
Directed by John Newland
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, Senta Berger, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Sharon Farrell, Donald Harron
Roles Alexander Waverly
Rating59% 2.9987252.9987252.9987252.9987252.998725
Mr. Waverly (Leo G. Carroll) gives U.N.C.L.E. agents Solo, Kuryakin, Arsene Coria (Fabrizio Mioni) from Italy, and Namana (Bill Gunn) from Liberia their assignment: they are to take a top secret code to a hidden location. After they leave, Waverly sends another agent, Australian Kitt Kittridge (Donald Harron), to follow them without their knowledge.
That Funny Feeling, 1h33
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor, Leo G. Carroll, Nita Talbot, Larry Storch
Roles O'Shea
Rating65% 3.2921453.2921453.2921453.2921453.292145
Joan Howell intends to be an actress, but for now she's working as a maid. Three different times, she accidentally bumps into Tom Milford, a successful publishing executive, who then asks her for a date.
The Prize
The Prize (1963)
, 2h14
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle, Gérard Oury
Roles Bertil Jacobsson
Rating67% 3.39973.39973.39973.39973.3997
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig (Paul Newman), who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. When he arrives in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted to find that the Swedish Foreign Department has sent the beautiful Inger Lisa Andersson (Elke Sommer) as his personal chaperone. When Craig arrives at his hotel, he is introduced to another laureate, Dr. Max Stratman (Edward G. Robinson), a famous German-American physicist, who is accompanied by his niece Emily (Diane Baker).
The Parent Trap, 2h9
Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Road movies, Children's films, Jumeaux ou jumelles, Films about marriage
Actors Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles, Joanna Barnes, Una Merkel
Roles Rev. Dr. Mosby
Rating71% 3.598133.598133.598133.598133.59813
Identical twins Susan Evers and Sharon McKendrick meet at summer camp, unaware that they are sisters. Their identical appearance initially creates rivalry, and they continuously pull pranks on each other, which ultimately leads to the camp dance being crashed by their mischief. As punishment, they must live together in an isolated cabin (and eat together at an "isolation table") for the remainder of their time at summer camp. After both admit they come from broken homes, they soon realize they are twin sisters and that their parents, Mitch and Maggie, divorced shortly after their birth, with each parent having custody of one of them. The twins, each eager to meet the parent she never knew, switch places. They drill each other on the other's behavior and lives, and Susan cuts Sharon's hair into the same style as hers. While Susan is in Boston masquerading as Sharon, Sharon goes to California pretending to be Susan.
North by Northwest, 2h16
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Sol Gorss, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Professor
Rating82% 4.148164.148164.148164.148164.14816
Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein), who take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm's "associate" Leonard (Martin Landau) intends to get rid of Thornhill once they finish questioning him.
The Swan
The Swan (1956)
, 1h44
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood, Brian Aherne
Roles Caesar
Rating64% 3.201493.201493.201493.201493.20149
The film, set in 1910, deals with the story of the daughter of a minor branch of a European royal house who is being considered as a wife for her cousin, the heir to the throne.
We're No Angels, 1h46
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Christmas films, Prison films, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Felix Ducotel
Rating73% 3.6974153.6974153.6974153.6974153.697415
Three convicts – Joseph, Albert and Jules – escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to a store managed by the Ducotel family, the only one to give supplies on credit. While there, they notice its roof is leaking, and offer to fix it. They do not actually intend to, but decide to remain there until nightfall, when they will steal clothes and supplies and escape on a ship waiting in the harbor. As they wait, they find that the small family of Felix, Amelie, and daughter Isabelle, is in financial distress and offer their services to hide the trio's all-too-sinister ruse. Joseph even gets to work conning people and falsifying records to make the store prosperous. However, the three felons begin to have a change of heart after they fix a delicious Christmas dinner for the Ducotels made mostly of stolen items.
Tarantula
Tarantula (1955)
, 1h16
Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Films about spiders, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday, Clint Eastwood, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott
Roles Prof. Gerald Deemer
Rating64% 3.2009553.2009553.2009553.2009553.200955
A man with Neanderthal features and wearing pajamas stumbles through the Arizona desert, falls and dies. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar), a bright, handsome and sympathetic doctor from the small town of Desert Rock, is called to view the body. Asked to give an opinion as to cause of death, he finds himself perplexed. Surprised to learn the deceased was someone he knew – biological research scientist Eric Jacobs – Dr. Hastings suggests he be given permission to perform an autopsy to learn why the man's face is distorted beyond recognition. The sheriff refuses, judging an autopsy unnecessary as Jacobs' associate, Dr. Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), signed the death certificate and there is no indication of foul play.