Leo G. Carroll — Actor (35)
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [Movie]
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Wuthering Heights (1939) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB
Wuthering Heights
director: William Wyler actor: Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier …
other title: La voce nella tempesta / Stormfulde Højder …
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
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Tarantula (1955) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Tarantula
director: Jack Arnold actor: John Agar / Mara Corday …
other title: Tarantola / Tarântula …
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
The Bad and the Beautiful
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Lana Turner / Kirk Douglas …
other title: Il bruto e la bella / Stadt der Illusionen …
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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The Movie Orgy (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Movie Orgy
director: Joe Dante actor: Goodman Ace / Andy Devine …
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Captains Courageous (1937) [Movie] TMDB
Captains Courageous
director: Victor Fleming actor: Freddie Bartholomew / Spencer Tracy …
other title: Capitani coraggiosi / Lobos do Mar …
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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The Parent Trap (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
The Parent Trap
director: David Swift actor: Hayley Mills / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Il cowboy con il velo da sposa / Forældrefælden …
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
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Waterloo Bridge (1940) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Waterloo Bridge
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Vivien Leigh / Robert Taylor …
other title: Il ponte di Waterloo / A Ponte de Waterloo …
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
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Suspicion (1941) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Suspicion
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Cary Grant / Joan Fontaine …
other title: Il sospetto / Suspeita …
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.
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Tower of London (1939) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Tower of London
director: Rowland V. Lee actor: Basil Rathbone / Boris Karloff …
other title: L'usurpatore / Der Henker von London …
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Rebecca (1940) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB Skybridge YetiWatch WikiData
Rebecca
8.1 (9 ratings) director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Laurence Olivier / Joan Fontaine …
other title: Rebecca - La prima moglie / Rebeca …
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
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Strangers on a Train (1951) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb Melon Log WikiData Skybridge
Strangers on a Train
8.5 (11 ratings) director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Farley Granger / Ruth Roman …
other title: L'altro uomo / Farligt møde …
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.
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Spellbound (1945) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Spellbound
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Ingrid Bergman / Harry Brown …
other title: Io ti salverò / Troldbunden …
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.