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
1957
- This Is Russia! as Narrator
1955
1953
- Nostradamus and the Queen as Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus Says So! as Narrator
- Let's Ask Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
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
- Hitler's Madman as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- You, John Jones! as Narrator (uncredited)
- Inca Gold as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Portrait of a Genius as Narrator(voice)
1942
- Mr. Gardenia Jones as Narrator
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy ... (Producer)
- The Lady or the Tiger? as Narrator
- Further Prophecies of Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- The Greenie as Commentator
1941
- Ghost Treasure as Narrator (voice)
- More About Nostradamus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ... (Story)
- 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
- The Man on the Rock as Narrator (voice)
- Bravest of the Brave as Narrator (voice)
- The Great Heart as Narrator (voice)
- Joaquin Murrieta as Narrator (voice)
- Strange Glory as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? (Number Three) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Life in Sometown, U.S.A. as Narrator
- Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? Tupapaoo as Narrator (voice)
1937
- Conquest ... (Writer)
- Dangerous Number as Sheriff
- You're Only Young Once ... (Producer)
- Between Two Women ... (Writer)
- The Rainbow Pass as Told by (voice)
- The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning as Narrator (voice)
- The Women Men Marry ... (Writer)
- The Man in the Barn as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? as Narrator (voice)
- The King Without a Crown as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? (Number Two) as Narrator (voice)
1936
- Hollywood - The Second Step as Narrator
- Master Will Shakespeare as Narrator (voice)
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty ... (Screenplay)
- Sequoia ... (Screenplay)
- Pitcairn Island Today as Narrator (voice)
- Primitive Pitcairn as Narrator
1934
- Sadie McKee ... (Writer)
- Murder at the Vanities ... (Screenplay)
- Outcast Lady ... (Writer)
- Bolero ... (Story)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
1933
- What! No Beer? ... (Writer)
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Screenplay)
- Fast Workers ... (Screenplay)
1932
- Arsène Lupin ... (Writer)
- Faithless ... (Screenplay)
- Polly of the Circus ... (Adaptation)
1931
- Behind Office Doors ... (Screenplay)
- Fanny Foley Herself ... (Adaptation)
1930
- Peacock Alley ... (Dialogue)
- The Bad One ... (Adaptation)
1929
- Why Be Good? ... (Screenplay)
- Footlights and Fools ... (Writer)
1928
- Lilac Time ... (Scenario Writer)
- Oh Kay! ... (Writer)
- The Cardboard Lover ... (Adaptation)
- The Awakening ... (Writer)
1927
- American Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Sea Tiger ... (Producer)
- The Tender Hour ... (Story)
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty ... (Writer)
- An Affair of the Follies ... (Writer)
- Naughty But Nice ... (Scenario Writer)
- Orchids and Ermine ... (Story)
- The Stolen Bride ... (Writer)
1926
- Monte Carlo ... (Story)
- Into Her Kingdom ... (Co-Writer)
- Midnight Lovers ... (Story)
- The Sporting Lover ... (Adaptation)
- Ladies at Play ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Silent Lover ... (Writer)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Continuity)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- His Secretary ... (Story)
- Lights of Old Broadway ... (Screenplay)
- The Masked Bride ... (Writer)
- Soul Mates ... (Writer)
- The Midshipman ... (Story)
1924
- He Who Gets Slapped ... (Adaptation)
- Three Weeks ... (Adaptation)
- Wine of Youth ... (Writer)
- Empty Hands ... (Writer)
- Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model ... (Writer)
- So This Is Marriage? ... (Story)
- Sinners in Silk ... (Scenario Writer)
1923
- Red Lights ... (Adaptation)
- The Eternal Three ... (Writer)
- Lost and Found on a South Sea Island ... (Story)
1922
- Broken Chains ... (Writer)
1921
- Passion Fruit ... (Story)
- The Cup of Life ... (Story)
1920
- A Woman's Business ... (Writer)
- Madonnas and Men ... (Writer)