Leslie I. Carey
Leslie Irwin Carey (born August 3, 1895 in Connecticut , † June 17, 1984 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American sound engineer who received the Oscar for best sound at the 1955 Academy Awards .
biography
In 1947 he succeeded Bernard B. Brown as supervisor for sound engineering at Universal Studios and held this position until he was replaced by Waldon O. Watson in 1959. After the first film Girl Time (1947), he worked on the creation of over 300 until 1960 Movies and TV series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1952 he was nominated for the first time for the Oscar for the best sound, namely for Victory over Darkness (1951). After another nomination in 1954 for The World Is His (The Mississippi Gambler, 1953), he received the Oscar at the 1955 Academy Awards for The Glenn Miller Story (1954).
Most recently, he was at the Oscars in 1959 for dying time to the life and times (A Time to Love and a Time to Die 1958) nominated for an Oscar for best sound.
Other well-known films he was involved in creating as a sound engineer were Ride on the Pink Horse , My Friend Harvey (1950), To Hell and Back (1955), Abbott and Costello as Mummy Robbers (1955), In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes ( 1951), In the Sign of Evil (1958), Bed Whispers (1959) and As Long as There Are People (1959). In the course of his career he has worked with well-known film directors such as Henry Koster , Orson Welles , Michael Gordon , Douglas Sirk , Charles Lamont , Robert Montgomery , Jesse Hibbs , Mark Robson , Rudolph Maté and Anthony Mann .
Web links
- Leslie I. Carey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carey, Leslie I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carey, Leslie Irwin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sound engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th June 1984 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |