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Leo G. Carroll

Leo G. Carroll

4 films · 260 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19451959

Born 25 October 1886 · Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England, UK · died 16 October 1972

Leo Gratten Carroll was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films - Rebecca, Suspicion, Spellbound, The Paradine Case, Strangers on a Train, and North by Northwest - and the television series Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

How their films are shot

Measured across 260 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Leo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Leo takes.

Time of day

Night53%
Day36%
Interior10%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural22%
High key18%
Chiaroscuro15%

Shot size

Medium53%
Wide19%
Closeup19%
Establishing5%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
Low angle11%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral73%
Tense21%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 260 frames from Leo G. Carroll's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.