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)
- 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
- Hitler's Madman as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Inca Gold as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- You, John Jones! as Narrator (uncredited)
- Portrait of a Genius as Narrator(voice)
1942
- The Greenie as Commentator
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy ... (Producer)
- Mr. Gardenia Jones as Narrator
- Further Prophecies of Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- The Lady or the Tiger? as Narrator
1941
- More About Nostradamus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Ghost Treasure as Narrator (voice)
1940
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ... (Story)
- Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
- A Failure at Fifty as Narrator (voice)
1939
- Judge Hardy and Son ... (Writer)
- Prophet Without Honor as Narrator (voice)
1938
- The Great Heart as Narrator (voice)
- Strange Glory as Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- The Man on the Rock as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? (Number Three) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Bravest of the Brave as Narrator (voice)
- Joaquin Murrieta as Narrator (voice)
- Life in Sometown, U.S.A. as Narrator
- What Do You Think? Tupapaoo as Narrator (voice)
1937
- Conquest ... (Writer)
- You're Only Young Once ... (Producer)
- Dangerous Number as Sheriff
- The King Without a Crown as Narrator (voice)
- 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)
- What Do You Think? (Number Two) as Narrator (voice)
1936
- Master Will Shakespeare as Narrator (voice)
- Hollywood - The Second Step as Narrator
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty ... (Screenplay)
- Primitive Pitcairn as Narrator
- Sequoia ... (Screenplay)
- Pitcairn Island Today as Narrator (voice)
1934
- Sadie McKee ... (Writer)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Murder at the Vanities ... (Screenplay)
- Bolero ... (Story)
- Outcast Lady ... (Writer)
1933
- Fast Workers ... (Screenplay)
- What! No Beer? ... (Writer)
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Screenplay)
1932
- Arsène Lupin ... (Writer)
- Polly of the Circus ... (Adaptation)
- Faithless ... (Screenplay)
1931
- Fanny Foley Herself ... (Adaptation)
- Behind Office Doors ... (Screenplay)
1930
- Peacock Alley ... (Dialogue)
- The Bad One ... (Adaptation)
1929
- Footlights and Fools ... (Writer)
- Why Be Good? ... (Screenplay)
1928
- Oh Kay! ... (Writer)
- The Awakening ... (Writer)
- Lilac Time ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Cardboard Lover ... (Adaptation)
1927
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty ... (Writer)
- Naughty But Nice ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Sea Tiger ... (Producer)
- An Affair of the Follies ... (Writer)
- The Stolen Bride ... (Writer)
- Orchids and Ermine ... (Story)
- American Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Tender Hour ... (Story)
1926
- The Silent Lover ... (Writer)
- The Sporting Lover ... (Adaptation)
- Into Her Kingdom ... (Co-Writer)
- Monte Carlo ... (Story)
- Midnight Lovers ... (Story)
- Ladies at Play ... (Scenario Writer)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Continuity)
- The Midshipman ... (Story)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- The Masked Bride ... (Writer)
- Lights of Old Broadway ... (Screenplay)
- Soul Mates ... (Writer)
- His Secretary ... (Story)
1924
- He Who Gets Slapped ... (Adaptation)
- So This Is Marriage? ... (Story)
- Sinners in Silk ... (Scenario Writer)
- Wine of Youth ... (Writer)
- Three Weeks ... (Adaptation)
- Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model ... (Writer)
- Empty Hands ... (Writer)
1923
- Red Lights ... (Adaptation)
- Lost and Found on a South Sea Island ... (Story)
- The Eternal Three ... (Writer)
1922
- Broken Chains ... (Writer)
1921
- The Cup of Life ... (Story)
- Passion Fruit ... (Story)
1920
- A Woman's Business ... (Writer)
- Madonnas and Men ... (Writer)