Leslie I. Carey

Leslie Irwin Carey ( born August 3, 1895 in Connecticut, † June 17, 1984 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American sound engineer, the Oscar for best sound received at the Academy Awards in 1955.

Biography

In 1947, he was the successor of Bernard B. Brown sound supervisor for Universal Studios and has held this position until his replacement by Waldon O. Watson 1959. According to the first film Girl Time ( 1947) he worked until 1960 in the creation of over 300 films and television series with.

At the Academy Awards in 1952, he was first nominated for the Oscar for best sound and indeed for victory over the Dark ( 1951). After another nomination in 1954 for The world belongs to him ( The Mississippi Gambler, 1953) he received at the Academy Awards in 1955 for The Glenn Miller Story (1954 ) won the Oscar.

Most recently, he was going to die ( A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1958) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound for time on the life and time at the Academy Awards in 1959.

Other well-known films, at whose creation he was involved as a sound engineer, were ride on the pink horse, my friend Harvey (1950), To Hell and Back (1955), Abbott and Costello as a mummy Robber (1955), On Sherlock Holmes ' tracks ( 1951), Touch of Evil (1958), Pillow Talk (1959) and Imitation of Life (1959). He worked throughout his career with renowned 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.