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
- Let's Ask Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus Says So! as Narrator
- Nostradamus and the Queen 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)
- Inca Gold as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- You, John Jones! as Narrator (uncredited)
- Portrait of a Genius as Narrator(voice)
1942
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy ... (Producer)
- Further Prophecies of Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- Mr. Gardenia Jones as Narrator
- The Greenie as Commentator
- The Lady or the Tiger? as Narrator
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
- Strange Glory as Narrator (voice)
- The Great Heart as Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? (Number Three) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Joaquin Murrieta as Narrator (voice)
- Life in Sometown, U.S.A. as Narrator
- What Do You Think? Tupapaoo as Narrator (voice)
- Bravest of the Brave as Narrator (voice)
- The Man on the Rock as Narrator (voice)
1937
- Conquest ... (Writer)
- Between Two Women ... (Writer)
- The Man in the Barn as Narrator (voice)
- You're Only Young Once ... (Producer)
- Dangerous Number as Sheriff
- What Do You Think? as Narrator (voice)
- The Women Men Marry ... (Writer)
- The King Without a Crown as Narrator (voice)
- The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning as Narrator (voice)
- The Rainbow Pass as Told by (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)
- Sequoia ... (Screenplay)
- Pitcairn Island Today as Narrator (voice)
- Primitive Pitcairn as Narrator
1934
- Murder at the Vanities ... (Screenplay)
- Sadie McKee ... (Writer)
- Bolero ... (Story)
- The President Vanishes ... (Writer)
- Outcast Lady ... (Writer)
1933
- What! No Beer? ... (Writer)
- Gabriel Over the White House ... (Screenplay)
- 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 ... (Dialogue)
- The Bad One ... (Adaptation)
1929
- Why Be Good? ... (Screenplay)
- Footlights and Fools ... (Writer)
1928
- Oh Kay! ... (Writer)
- The Awakening ... (Writer)
- The Cardboard Lover ... (Adaptation)
- Lilac Time ... (Scenario Writer)
1927
- The Sea Tiger ... (Writer)
- Orchids and Ermine ... (Story)
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty ... (Writer)
- Naughty But Nice ... (Scenario Writer)
- American Beauty ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Stolen Bride ... (Writer)
- The Tender Hour ... (Story)
- An Affair of the Follies ... (Writer)
1926
- The Sporting Lover ... (Adaptation)
- The Silent Lover ... (Writer)
- Monte Carlo ... (Story)
- Midnight Lovers ... (Story)
- Into Her Kingdom ... (Co-Writer)
- Ladies at Play ... (Scenario Writer)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Continuity)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- The Midshipman ... (Story)
- The Masked Bride ... (Writer)
- His Secretary ... (Story)
- Soul Mates ... (Writer)
- Lights of Old Broadway ... (Screenplay)
1924
- He Who Gets Slapped ... (Adaptation)
- So This Is Marriage? ... (Story)
- Sinners in Silk ... (Scenario Writer)
- Wine of Youth ... (Writer)
- Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model ... (Writer)
- Empty Hands ... (Writer)
- Three Weeks ... (Adaptation)
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
- Madonnas and Men ... (Writer)
- A Woman's Business ... (Writer)