Leo Gratten Carroll
| Sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Oct 25, 1886 Weedon, England |
| Died | Oct 16, 1972 Hollywood, CA |
| Age | Died at 86 |
| Final Resting PlaceGrand View Memorial Park | |
Leo G. Carroll | |
| Job | Actor |
| Years active | 1912-68 |
| Known for | Kindly or villainous; deliberate speech |
| Top Roles | Burns, Dr. Murchison, Captain Melbeck, Mr. Massoula, Rev. Dr. Mosby |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Crime, Comedy, Thriller/Suspense, Mystery |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Romance (Drama), Spies |
| Top Collaborators | Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Leonard Carey, Lumsden Hare, Clarence Brown (Director) |
| Shares birthday with | Whit Bissell, Marion Ross, Polly Ann Young see more.. |
Leo G. Carroll Overview:
Legendary character actor, Leo G. Carroll, was born Leo Gratten Carroll on Oct 25, 1886 in Weedon, England. Carroll appeared in over 75 film and television roles. His best known films include Spellbound (1945, as Dr. Murchison) and North by Northwest (1959 as the professor) (*see below list for all of his Hitchcock films). On television, he was best known as Cosmo Topper in Topper (1953-1955), Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way (1962-1963) and Alexander Waverly in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968). Carroll died at the age of 86 on Oct 16, 1972 in Hollywood, CA and was laid to rest in Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, CA.
MINI BIO:
With Beetle-brow and deliberate speech, Leo G. Carroll came to Hollywood via the English stage (debuting in 1911), then Broadway. He continued to show a preference for the stage but will be best remembered by moviegoers for his role as the villainous Dr. Murchison in Spellbound. For television fans, he will be best known as Alexander Waverly from the long-running TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968).
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).*CARROLL / HITCHCOCK FILMS:
Leo G. Carroll appeared 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).
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Carroll was never nominated for an Academy Award.
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Leo G. Carroll Quotes:
Prof. Gerald Deemer: The disease of hunger, like most diseases, well, it spreads. There are 2 billion people in the world today. In 1975 there'll be 3 billion. In the year 2000, there'll be 3,625,000,000. The world may not be able to produce enough food to feed all these people. Now perhaps you'll understand what an inexpensive nutrient will mean.
Dr. Matt Hastings: Well, not many of us look that far in the future, sir.
Prof. Gerald Deemer: Our business is the future. No man can do it on his own, of course. You don't pull it out of your hat like a magician's rabbit. You - well, you build on what hundreds of others have learned before you.
Dr. Matt Hastings: But what if circumstances magnified one of them in size and strength, took it out of its primitive world, and turned it loose in ours?
Prof. Townsend: Then expect something that's fiercer, more cruel and deadly than anything that ever walked on earth!
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