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Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and for playing the patriarch Henry Reagan, NYPD Police Commissioner (retired), in the multi-generational television series Blue Bloods on CBS.
Birth Name
Leonard Joseph Cariou
Born
Saturday, 30 September 1939
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| When They See Us | DA Robert Morgenthau | 2019 |
| Bumblebee | Uncle Hank / Hank | 2018 |
| Death Wish | Ben | 2018 |
| Spotlight | Cardinal Law | 2015 |
| Showing Up | Self | 2014 |
| Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen | Ernest Hemingway | 2013 |
| Prisoners | Father Patrick Dunn | 2013 |
| The Talk | Self | 2010 |
| Blue Bloods | Henry Reagan | 2010 |
| War Stories | Narrator | 2010 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| When They See Us | DA Robert Morgenthau | 2019 |
| Bumblebee | Uncle Hank / Hank | 2018 |
| Death Wish | Ben | 2018 |
| Spotlight | Cardinal Law | 2015 |
| Showing Up | Self | 2014 |
| Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen | Ernest Hemingway | 2013 |
| Prisoners | Father Patrick Dunn | 2013 |
| The Talk | Self | 2010 |
| Blue Bloods | Henry Reagan | 2010 |
| War Stories | Narrator | 2010 |
| Into the Storm | President Franklin D. Roosevelt / Franklin D Roosevelt | 2009 |
| Wings of Honor | 2009 | |
| The Onion Movie | Norm Archer | 2008 |
| Damages | Louis Tobin | 2007 |
| 1408 | Mike's Father | 2007 |
| Army Wives | Randall Meade | 2007 |
| Flags of Our Fathers | Mr. Beech | 2006 |
| Brotherhood | Judd Fitzgerald | 2006 |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | James Tyrone (segment "Long Day's Journey Into Night") | 2006 |
| The Greatest Game Ever Played | Stedman Comstock | 2005 |
| Boynton Beach Club | Jack | 2005 |
| Wallander | Atkins | 2005 |
| Sex Traffic | Magnus Herzoff | 2004 |
| Secret Window | Sheriff Dave Newsome | 2004 |
| The Skulls III | Dean Lawton | 2004 |
| About Schmidt | Ray Nichols | 2002 |
| Power, Privilege & Justice | Narrator | 2002 |
| Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Dean Acheson | 2001 |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | Self | 2000 |
| Thirteen Days | Dean Acheson | 2000 |
| Ed | Mr. Stuckey | 2000 |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Frank McCarty | 2000 |
| Nuremberg | Francis Biddle | 2000 |
| D.C. | Senator William Abbott | 2000 |
| The West Wing | Alan Damson | 1999 |
| The Practice | Defense Attorney Weiland | 1997 |
| The Summer of Ben Tyler | Spencer Maitland | 1996 |
| Theater Talk | Self - Guest | 1996 |
| F/X: The Series | Charles Emery | 1996 |
| The 50th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Previous Winner | 1996 |
| Executive Decision | Secretary of Defense Charles White / Charles White | 1996 |
| A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story | Walt Disney | 1995 |
| Never Talk to Strangers | Henry Taylor | 1995 |
| The Man in the Attic | Joseph Heldmann / Joe Heldmann | 1995 |
| The Outer Limits | Father Anton Jonascu / Doc Wells | 1995 |
| Star Trek: Voyager | Admiral Edward Janeway | 1995 |
| Derby | Henry Woods | 1995 |
| Getting In | Dr. Ezekial Higgs / Dr. Lionel Higgs | 1994 |
| Witness to the Execution | Jake Tyler | 1994 |
| The Sea Wolf | Dr. Picard | 1993 |
| Class of '61 | Dr. Leland Peyton | 1993 |
| Miracle on Interstate 880 | Buck Helm | 1993 |
| North of 60 | Mike Birkett | 1992 |
| Monkey House | Ambassador Kelly | 1991 |
| Law & Order | Mac Geller / Edgar Beezley / Captain Allard Bunker | 1990 |
| Gabriel's Fire | Judge Norton Heller | 1990 |
| The 44th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Performer | 1990 |
| American Playwrights Theater: The One-Acts | Pat Sweeney | 1989 |
| The Johnstown Flood | Narrator | 1989 |
| American Experience | Narrator | 1988 |
| Lady in White | Phil Terragarossa / Phil Terragrossa | 1988 |
| There Were Times, Dear | Bob Millard | 1987 |
| Street Legal | Christian Peveril | 1987 |
| The Ray Bradbury Theater | Douglas | 1985 |
| Surviving | David Brogan | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Michael Hagarty / Monsignore O'Shaugnessy | 1984 |
| Louisiane | Oswald | 1984 |
| The Four Seasons | Nick Callan | 1981 |
| Madame X | John Abbott | 1981 |
| Something Hidden - A Portrait of Wilder Penfield | Narrator | 1981 |
| The 34th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Audience Member | 1980 |
| The 33rd Annual Tony Awards | Self - Winner & Performer | 1979 |
| The Great Detective | Tanner | 1979 |
| Drying Up the Streets | Larry | 1978 |
| Canada Vignettes: Lady Frances Simpson | (voice) / Narrator | 1978 |
| Canada Vignettes: Fort Prince of Wales | Narrator | 1978 |
| Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic | (voice) / Narrator | 1978 |
| A Little Night Music | Frederick Egerman | 1977 |
| One Man | Jason Brady | 1977 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
| Great Performances | Self | 1971 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2009 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
