Carey Wilson

AKA:
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1889-05-19

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Crew Roles

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Producer
Mutiny on the Bounty
Screenplay
The Red Danube
Producer
The Midshipman
Story
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Story
Murder at the Vanities
Screenplay
Sequoia
Screenplay
Judge Hardy and Son
Writer
The Happy Years
Producer
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Producer
Lilac Time
Scenario Writer
This Is Russia!
Producer
Bolero
Story
You, John Jones!
Writer
You, John Jones!
Producer
The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
Writer
Peacock Alley
Dialogue
Peacock Alley
Story
Faithless
Screenplay
The Awakening
Writer
Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
Story
Gabriel Over the White House
Screenplay
The Eternal Three
Writer
Behind Office Doors
Screenplay
Three Weeks
Adaptation
Polly of the Circus
Adaptation
Scaramouche
Producer
The Sea Tiger
Producer
The Sea Tiger
Writer
Passion Fruit
Story
What Do You Think? Tupapaoo
Writer
Dangerous Number
Screenplay
The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
Producer
Empty Hands
Writer
Why Be Good?
Screenplay
Fanny Foley Herself
Adaptation
The Women Men Marry
Writer
Hard-Boiled Haggerty
Writer
The Masked Bride
Writer
Wine of Youth
Writer
The Cup of Life
Story
Monte Carlo
Story
Red Lights
Adaptation
The President Vanishes
Writer
Footlights and Fools
Writer
Lights of Old Broadway
Screenplay
Outcast Lady
Writer
Naughty But Nice
Scenario Writer
Midnight Lovers
Story
Midnight Lovers
Screenplay
Between Two Women
Writer
Nostradamus IV
Producer
Moments in Music
Director
You're Only Young Once
Producer
He Who Gets Slapped
Adaptation
Ladies at Play
Scenario Writer
The Bad One
Adaptation
The Cardboard Lover
Adaptation
Oh Kay!
Writer
Nostradamus and the Queen
Producer
What Do You Think? (Number Two)
Writer
Nostradamus
Producer
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
Screenplay
More About Nostradamus
Producer
A Failure at Fifty
Producer
Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
Producer
Prophet Without Honor
Producer
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Writer
The Sporting Lover
Adaptation
The Silent Lover
Writer
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Writer
His Secretary
Story
Broken Chains
Writer
Dark Delusion
Producer
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Continuity
Between Two Women
Producer
Orchids and Ermine
Story
A Woman's Business
Writer
Into Her Kingdom
Co-Writer
Conquest
Writer
An Affair of the Follies
Writer
The Greenie
Writer
The Bad One
Screenplay
The Cardboard Lover
Writer
Polly of the Circus
Writer
Naughty But Nice
Screenplay
The Sporting Lover
Screenplay
Ladies at Play
Screenplay
Fanny Foley Herself
Writer
Three Weeks
Writer
The Tender Hour
Story
The Stolen Bride
Writer
Fast Workers
Screenplay
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Scenario Writer
Arsène Lupin
Writer
So This Is Marriage?
Story
Green Dolphin Street
Producer
Sadie McKee
Writer
What! No Beer?
Writer
Orchids and Ermine
Scenario Writer
Why Be Good?
Story
Madonnas and Men
Writer
Soul Mates
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {47}

Narrator (voice)

1938-06-11 7.5

What Do You Think? Tupapaoo

An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island. ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator(voice)

1943-01-23 0

Portrait of a Genius

Leonardo Da Vinci was seen as a great artist during his lifetime. The same cannot be said for his life as an inventor. His genius as an inventor was only truly known through reading his secret manuscr ...
Genre :Documentary

Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1951-12-16 7.061

Westward the Women

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a lon ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Western

Narrator

1938-02-26 7

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A. ...
Genre :

Narrator

1951-07-04 0

Target Nevada

The Story of United States Air Force support to the Atomic Energy Commission on Continental Atomic Tests. ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (uncredited)

1943-01-14 6

You, John Jones!

John Jones contemplates how fortunate he and his family are in America, where no wartime bombing occurs. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Narrator

1957-12-06 0

This Is Russia!

Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, the Black Sea, Kharkov, Sochi, Sukumi, Gori, Bukhara, Samarkand, Frunzo and Siberia. ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1936-06-13 5.5

Master Will Shakespeare

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater. ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Narrator (voice)

1937-11-20 5.3

The Man in the Barn

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surrender, the barn was set afire and Booth died in the ...
Genre :History, Mystery, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1937-10-09 5.5

The King Without a Crown

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America. ...
Genre :History, Mystery, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1937-09-11 4.5

The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on F ...
Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1938-07-01 4

Strange Glory

During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the Tennessee River. This proved to be a vital action for ...
Genre :Drama, History

Narrator (voice)

1953-09-29 5.5

Nostradamus and the Queen

An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1937-11-25 7

What Do You Think?

The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go to work. However, a few interruptions, including thinking for a moment that he sees a woman's body in ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1939-05-20 5.9

Prophet Without Honor

This short film portrays the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer who developed the first maps that charted the oceans' winds and currents. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Told by (voice)

1937-10-09 6.5

The Rainbow Pass

In Chinese culture, live theater performances are attended by all classes of society. This short shows a performance of "The Rainbow Pass," a tale of a wife who challenges her husband's murderer to co ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1940-07-01 4.5

A Failure at Fifty

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)

1940-07-31 6.5

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and p ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1940-01-01 0

Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things

Andy wants to buy a new car so he goes into the judge's home office where his father is about to write a $200 check to charity. He asks his dad for the $200 and they go used car shopping. ...
Genre :Comedy

Narrator

1942-03-28 0

The Lady or the Tiger?

Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of his story, The Lady or the Tiger? ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

1953-01-03 5

Nostradamus Says So!

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed. ...
Genre :Documentary, History, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1948-08-22 0

Operation Sandstone

In 1948, the U.S. nuclear stockpile consisted of approximately 50 atomic bombs. Since the industrial complex to produce more nuclear weapons was not fully complete and there were limited amounts of pl ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1936-06-02 8

Hollywood - The Second Step

This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work consists mostly ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1935-05-25 6

Pitcairn Island Today

This visit to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific Ocean shows that life for the residents has changed little in the years since Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers on HMS Bounty, along with s ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1944-01-02 4.7

Nostradamus IV

This Carey Wilson Miniature takes a further look at prophecies by 16th century seer Nostradamus. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Documentary

Sheriff

1937-01-22 4.333

Dangerous Number

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be an ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Narrator (voice)

1937-12-25 0

What Do You Think? (Number Two)

John Jones, newlywed, attends a party with his wife, when an incident occurs with his mother-in-law. His sweetie believes him to be the culprit of a supposed prank, and forces him to sleep in the gues ...
Genre :Drama

Himself - Narrator (voice)

1938-01-15 6

What Do You Think? (Number Three)

This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect. ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1938-09-24 5

Nostradamus

A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1938-12-31 6.3

The Great Heart

This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope and God's comfort to the lepers confined on the Haw ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1938-09-03 6

The Man on the Rock

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821. ...
Genre :History, Mystery

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1941-01-18 5.4

More About Nostradamus

This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the daughter of the English Isles" against these forces. The ...
Genre :History, Drama

Himself - Narrator (voice)

1943-04-24 0

Inca Gold

Legends associated with the lost treasures of Incan gold, thought to be located at the bottom of one of the many shafts of what is called the hawk's nest above the city of Cusco, Peru are presented. T ...
Genre :Drama, History

Narrator (voice)

1942-05-09 5.5

Further Prophecies of Nostradamus

This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1953-06-06 6

Let's Ask Nostradamus

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Documentary

Narrator

1942-05-29 4.7

Mr. Gardenia Jones

Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1925-04-09 6.1

1925 Studio Tour

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made. ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1938-08-06 0

Bravest of the Brave

This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France. ...
Genre :History

Commentator

1942-01-24 0

The Greenie

Told on the premise that the United States has always been a refuge from those seeking a reprieve from poverty and bigotry, this Miniature short from M-G-M is the story of a young Polish boy, unable t ...
Genre :History

Narrator (voice)

1941-03-05 0

Ghost Treasure

This short film presents three legends of hidden gold in California's Death Valley. ...
Genre :

Narrator (voice)

1938-06-11 6

Joaquin Murrieta

This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s. ...
Genre :Mystery, Western

Narrator

1946-06-15 0

Bikini, the Atom Island

This shows the natives of Bikini Island as they were being evacuated and relocated (o.k., dispossessed) from their island prior to the atom bomb tests. ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1945-09-20 0

Strange Destiny

This Carey Wilson Miniature tells the true story of a humble YMCA worker, Asa K. Jennings (Louis Jean Heydt), who lived a productive life for 27 years after medical science doomed him to death. Jennin ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1943-06-10 5.273

Hitler's Madman

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Narrator

0

The Miracle of Salt Lake

Tracing the migration of Brigham Young and the Mormons to Utah and posing the question of whether the appearance of seagulls that fed on the grasshoppers (which were consuming the wheat crops) was a p ...
Genre :

1955-09-14 0

MGM Parade

The original concept of the show was to allow the viewer to see the inner workings of a movie studio and featured interviews with MGM stars and explanations of how movies were made. Later, the format ...
Genre :

Self

1955-09-14 0

MGM Parade

The original concept of the show was to allow the viewer to see the inner workings of a movie studio and featured interviews with MGM stars and explanations of how movies were made. Later, the format ...
Genre :