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Occupation
  
Sound engineer

Years active
  
1947 – 1960


Name
  
Leslie Carey

Role
  
Sound Mixer

Full Name
  
Leslie Irwin Carey

Born
  
August 3, 1895 (
1895-08-03
)
Connecticut, United States

Died
  
June 17, 1984, Los Angeles, California, United States

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Similar People
  
Oscar Brodney, Alexander Golitzen, Anthony Mann, Mark Robson, Robert Montgomery

Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey (August 3, 1895 – June 17, 1984) first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films. Some of these were A Double Life in 1947, The Naked City and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948, Winchester '73 in 1950, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Magnificent Obsession in 1954, Man Without a Star and This Island Earth in 1955, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and Operation Petticoat (1959). Also in the late 1950s, he worked extensively on the "Peter Gunn" TV series. Nominated five times for the Academy Award, he won an Oscar in 1954 for The Glenn Miller Story.

Awards

Carey was nominated for five Academy Awards:

  • Once More, My Darling (1949)
  • Louisa (1950)
  • Bright Victory (1951)
  • The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
  • A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
  • References

    Leslie I. Carey Wikipedia