Leo G. Carroll Movies and Career Information

Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English-born actor. He was best known for his roles in several Hitchcock films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and "Topper". Carroll was born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, to William and Catherine Carroll. His Roman Catholic parents named him after the reigning 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, London, done when Carroll was a teenager, his occupation is listed as a "Wine trade clerk". In the 1911 census, he is living at the same address and described as a "Dramatic agent". Carroll made his stage debut in 1912. His acting career was on hold during World War I, when he served in the British Army. He then performed in London and Broadway. In the twenties, Carroll had the lead in a successful Broadway play, The Green Bay Tree, and in 1941 starred with Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn in Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street (Gas Light), which ran for three years at the Golden Theatre on 45th Street in New York City. After the production closed, he starred in the title role in J. P. Marquand's The Late George