Carey Wilson
Born: 1889-05-19 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1962-02-01
Known For: Writing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carey Wilson (May 19, 1889 – February 1, 1962) was an American screenwriter, voice actor and producer. Wilson's screenplays include Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and The Great Heart (1938). His credits as producer include Green Dolphin Street (1947). He also narrated many nuclear test films, produced by the Atomic Energy Commission (now Department of Energy) and by the Department of Defence, including Operation Sandstone of 1948 and Operation Greenhouse of 1951. He was one of the thirty-six Hollywood pioneers who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. He collaborated with Jean Harlow on her novel Today is Tonight. For his contribution in films, Wilson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography
1958
- This Is Russia! as Narrator
1955
1953
- Nostradamus and the Queen as Narrator (voice)
- Let's Ask Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus Says So! as Narrator
1952
- Scaramouche ... (Producer)
1951
- Westward the Women as Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Target Nevada as Narrator
1950
- The Happy Years ... (Producer)
- Moments in Music ... (Director)
1949
- The Red Danube ... (Producer)
1948
- Operation Sandstone as Narrator (voice)
1947
- Green Dolphin Street ... (Producer)
- Dark Delusion ... (Producer)
1946
- The Postman Always Rings Twice ... (Producer)
- Bikini, the Atom Island as Narrator
1945
- Between Two Women ... (Producer)
- Strange Destiny as Narrator
1944
- Nostradamus IV as Narrator (voice)
1943
- You, John Jones! as Narrator (uncredited)
- Hitler's Madman as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Portrait of a Genius as Narrator(voice)
- Inca Gold as Himself - Narrator (voice)
1942
- The Greenie as Commentator
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy ... (Producer)
- The Lady or the Tiger? as Narrator
- Further Prophecies of Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- Mr. Gardenia Jones as Narrator
1941
- Ghost Treasure as Narrator (voice)
- More About Nostradamus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ... (Story)
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
- A Failure at Fifty as Narrator (voice)
- Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1939
- Judge Hardy and Son ... (Writer)
- Prophet Without Honor as Narrator (voice)
1938
- Strange Glory as Narrator (voice)
- Bravest of the Brave as Narrator (voice)
- Life in Sometown, U.S.A. as Narrator
- What Do You Think? Tupapaoo as Narrator (voice)
- The Man on the Rock as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? (Number Three) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- The Great Heart as Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- Joaquin Murrieta as Narrator (voice)
1937
- You're Only Young Once ... (Producer)
- The Women Men Marry ... (Writer)
- Conquest ... (Writer)
- The King Without a Crown as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? as Narrator (voice)
- The Man in the Barn as Narrator (voice)
- Between Two Women ... (Writer)
- What Do You Think? (Number Two) as Narrator (voice)
- Dangerous Number as Sheriff
- The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning as Narrator (voice)
- The Rainbow Pass as Told by (voice)
1936
- Hollywood - The Second Step as Narrator
- Master Will Shakespeare as Narrator (voice)
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty ... (Screenplay)
- Primitive Pitcairn as Narrator
- Sequoia ... (Screenplay)
- Pitcairn Island Today as Narrator (voice)
1934
- Sadie McKee ... (Writer)
- Murder at the Vanities ... (Screenplay)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Bolero ... (Story)
- Outcast Lady ... (Writer)
1933
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Screenplay)
- What! No Beer? ... (Writer)
- Fast Workers ... (Screenplay)
1932
- Arsène Lupin ... (Writer)
- Polly of the Circus ... (Adaptation)
- Faithless ... (Screenplay)
1931
- Behind Office Doors ... (Screenplay)
- Fanny Foley Herself ... (Adaptation)
1930
- Peacock Alley ... (Story)
- The Bad One ... (Adaptation)
1929
- Footlights and Fools ... (Writer)
- Why Be Good? ... (Screenplay)
1928
- Oh Kay! ... (Writer)
- Lilac Time ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Awakening ... (Writer)
- The Cardboard Lover ... (Adaptation)
1927
- An Affair of the Follies ... (Writer)
- Orchids and Ermine ... (Story)
- American Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- Naughty But Nice ... (Scenario Writer)
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty ... (Writer)
- The Sea Tiger ... (Writer)
- The Stolen Bride ... (Writer)
- The Tender Hour ... (Story)
1926
- The Sporting Lover ... (Adaptation)
- Monte Carlo ... (Story)
- Midnight Lovers ... (Story)
- Into Her Kingdom ... (Co-Writer)
- The Silent Lover ... (Writer)
- Ladies at Play ... (Scenario Writer)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Continuity)
- The Midshipman ... (Story)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- Lights of Old Broadway ... (Screenplay)
- His Secretary ... (Story)
- Soul Mates ... (Writer)
- The Masked Bride ... (Writer)
1924
- He Who Gets Slapped ... (Adaptation)
- So This Is Marriage? ... (Story)
- Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model ... (Writer)
- Sinners in Silk ... (Scenario Writer)
- Empty Hands ... (Writer)
- Three Weeks ... (Adaptation)
- Wine of Youth ... (Writer)
1923
- Lost and Found on a South Sea Island ... (Story)
- The Eternal Three ... (Writer)
- Red Lights ... (Adaptation)
1922
- Broken Chains ... (Writer)
1921
- The Cup of Life ... (Story)
- Passion Fruit ... (Story)
1920
- A Woman's Business ... (Writer)
- Madonnas and Men ... (Writer)