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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1889-05-19 (135 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Carey Wilson

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.

Known For

Acting

1957

This Is Russia! as Narrator

1953

Nostradamus and the Queen as Narrator (voice)
Let's Ask Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)

1951

Westward the Women as Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Target Nevada as Narrator

1948

Operation Sandstone as Narrator (voice)

1946

1945

Strange Destiny as Narrator

1944

Nostradamus IV as Narrator (voice)

1943

Portrait of a Genius as Narrator(voice)
You, John Jones! as Narrator (uncredited)
Inca Gold as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1942

Mr. Gardenia Jones as Narrator
The Greenie as Commentator

1941

More About Nostradamus as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ghost Treasure as Narrator (voice)

1940

A Failure at Fifty as Narrator (voice)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)

1939

Prophet Without Honor as Narrator (voice)

1938

What Do You Think? Tupapaoo as Narrator (voice)
Strange Glory as Narrator (voice)
What Do You Think? (Number Three) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Nostradamus as Narrator (voice)
The Great Heart as Narrator (voice)
The Man on the Rock as Narrator (voice)
Bravest of the Brave as Narrator (voice)
Joaquin Murrieta as Narrator (voice)

1937

The King Without a Crown as Narrator (voice)
The Man in the Barn as Narrator (voice)
What Do You Think? as Narrator (voice)
The Rainbow Pass as Told by (voice)
Dangerous Number as Sheriff

1936

Master Will Shakespeare as Narrator (voice)

1935

Pitcairn Island Today as Narrator (voice)

1925

Production

1957

This Is Russia! as Producer

1952

Scaramouche as Producer

1950

The Happy Years as Producer

1949

The Red Danube as Producer

1947

Dark Delusion as Producer

1945

Between Two Women as Producer

1944

Nostradamus IV as Producer

1943

You, John Jones! as Producer

1941

1940

A Failure at Fifty as Producer

1939

1938

Nostradamus as Producer

1927

The Sea Tiger as Producer

Writing

1943

1942

The Greenie as Writer

1939

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty as Screenplay
Sequoia as Screenplay

1934

Bolero as Story
Outcast Lady as Writer
Sadie McKee as Writer

1933

Fast Workers as Screenplay
What! No Beer? as Writer

1932

Faithless as Screenplay
Polly of the Circus as Adaptation
Arsène Lupin as Writer

1931

Behind Office Doors as Screenplay
Fanny Foley Herself as Adaptation

1930

Peacock Alley as Dialogue
Peacock Alley as Story
The Bad One as Adaptation
The Bad One as Screenplay

1929

Why Be Good? as Screenplay

1928

Lilac Time as Scenario Writer
The Awakening as Writer
The Cardboard Lover as Adaptation
Oh Kay! as Writer

1927

The Sea Tiger as Writer
Naughty But Nice as Scenario Writer
Naughty But Nice as Screenplay
Orchids and Ermine as Scenario Writer

1926

Monte Carlo as Story
Midnight Lovers as Screenplay
Ladies at Play as Scenario Writer
The Sporting Lover as Adaptation
Into Her Kingdom as Co-Writer
The Sporting Lover as Screenplay
Ladies at Play as Screenplay

1925

His Secretary as Story

1924

Three Weeks as Adaptation
Empty Hands as Writer
Wine of Youth as Writer
He Who Gets Slapped as Adaptation
Three Weeks as Writer

1922

Broken Chains as Writer

1921

Passion Fruit as Story

1920

Directing

1950

Moments in Music as Director