Carey Wilson
Writing
1889 – 1962 (aged 72)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
43 acting credits
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
Westward the Women
16 Dec 1951
Prophet Without Honor
20 May 1939
Hitler's Madman
10 Jun 1943
The Great Heart
31 Dec 1938
More About Nostradamus
18 Jan 1941
You, John Jones!
14 Jan 1943
The King Without a Crown
09 Oct 1937
The Man in the Barn
20 Nov 1937
Filmography
1958
- This Is Russia!as Narrator
1953
- Nostradamus and the Queenas Narrator (voice)
- Let's Ask Nostradamusas Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamus Says So!as Narrator
1951
- Westward the Womenas Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Target Nevadaas Narrator
1948
- Operation Sandstoneas Narrator (voice)
1946
- Bikini, the Atom Islandas Narrator
1945
- Strange Destinyas Narrator
1944
- Nostradamus IVas Narrator (voice)
1943
- Hitler's Madmanas Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Portrait of a Geniusas Narrator(voice)
- You, John Jones!as Narrator (uncredited)
1942
- Mr. Gardenia Jonesas Narrator
- Further Prophecies of Nostradamusas Narrator (voice)
- The Lady or the Tiger?as Narrator
- The Greenieas Commentator
1941
- Ghost Treasureas Narrator (voice)
- More About Nostradamusas Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awardsas Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
- A Failure at Fiftyas Narrator (voice)
- Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Thingsas Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1939
- Prophet Without Honoras Narrator (voice)
1938
- The Great Heartas Narrator (voice)
- Nostradamusas Narrator (voice)
- The Man on the Rockas Narrator (voice)
- Bravest of the Braveas Narrator (voice)
- Strange Gloryas Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think? Tupapaooas Narrator (voice)
- Joaquin Murrietaas Narrator (voice)
- Life in Sometown, U.S.A.as Narrator
1937
- What Do You Think? (Number Two)as Narrator (voice)
- What Do You Think?as Narrator (voice)
- The Man in the Barnas Narrator (voice)
- The King Without a Crownas Narrator (voice)
- The Rainbow Passas Told by (voice)
- The Boss Didn't Say Good Morningas Narrator (voice)
- Dangerous Numberas Sheriff
1936
- Master Will Shakespeareas Narrator (voice)
- Hollywood - The Second Stepas Narrator
1935
- Pitcairn Island Todayas Narrator (voice)
- Primitive Pitcairnas Narrator