Carroll Nye

Carroll Nye

Born: October 4, 1901
Died: March 17, 1974
in Akron, Ohio, USA
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Robert Carroll Nye (October 4, 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an American film actor. He appeared in 58 films between 1925 and 1944. His mother, Myra Nye, worked for the Los Angeles Times. Carroll was educated at the University of California and later became a reporter and radio editor with the Times like his mother. However, he went into film business in 1924. At the beginning of his career he had a score of leading man roles in Hollywood opposite such silent screen stars as Anita Page and Corinne Griffith. In his late career, he played usually small roles, perhaps most memorably as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband, in Gone with the Wind (1939). His film career ended in 1944 with an uncredited role in Wilson. Nye also worked with Groucho Marx at CBS.

After his film career, Nye served as a Hollywood newscaster and publicity man. He was married to actress Helen Lynch since 1928, but the marriage ended in divorce. He later married a woman named Dorothy, mentioned on his gravestone at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. His brother was respected Hollywood makeup artist Ben Nye.

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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Mr. Loring
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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The Trail Blazers
Title: The Trail Blazers
Character: Jim Chapman
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
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Buyer Beware
Title: Buyer Beware
Character: George Collins (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Frank Kennedy
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Larsen
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Police Radio Broadcaster
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Burroughs
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Temptation's Workshop
Title: Temptation's Workshop
Character: Bob Lawton
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy family loses all of its money, but a foreign count who has married into the family helps them out.
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Neck and Neck
Title: Neck and Neck
Character: Frank Douglas
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good luck when he wins a racehorse during a poker game. This enables him to enjoy the lifestyle he has been bragging about for so long. While in high society, he falls for Norma, whose father is big in racing circles.
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The One Way Trail
Title: The One Way Trail
Character: Terry Allen
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in the saloon but has no idea he is targeting the wrong man.
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The Lawless Woman
Title: The Lawless Woman
Character: Allan Perry
Released: May 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at all costs to cover the case to obtain exclusivity and impress his hierarchy. He falls in love with the young woman, but Ed Baker's former friends, determined to take revenge, have not said their last word ...
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The Lottery Bride
Title: The Lottery Bride
Character: Nels
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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Sons of the Saddle
Title: Sons of the Saddle
Character: Harvey
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the rancher's daughter, though he is unaware that Harvey, a youthful cowhand, also loves her. Thus, Jim asks the boy, whom he protects like a brother, to speak for him. When he is spurned by Ronnie, Harvey decides to join Red Slade's gang, who are plotting a raid on the Wind River herd. As Jim forcibly attempts to separate him from the gang, Harvey is killed; and through the aid of his horse, Tarzan, Jim foils Slade's attempt to stampede the herd. Slade takes refuge in a wagon where Ronnie is hiding; Jim rescues Ronnie from the wagon just before the runaway team plunges over a cliff with Slade riding to his doom.
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The Bishop Murder Case
Title: The Bishop Murder Case
Character: John E. Sprigg
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Darrell, a Naval Officer
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
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Light Fingers
Title: Light Fingers
Character: Donald Madison
Released: July 29, 1929
Type: Movie
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
Title: The Girl in the Glass Cage
Character: Terry Pomfret
Released: June 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
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The Squall
Title: The Squall
Character: Paul
Released: May 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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The Devil Bear
Title: The Devil Bear
Character: Bert Sifton
Released: February 19, 1929
Type: Movie
An early Canadian horror/drama film.
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The Flying Fleet
Title: The Flying Fleet
Character: Tex (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
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Jazzland
Title: Jazzland
Character: Homer Pew
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a young newspaperman and his brother endeavor to learn the identity of the club's owner...
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Land of the Silver Fox
Title: Land of the Silver Fox
Character: Carroll Blackton
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: John Fredericks
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains blind to his wife's selfishness-until his eyes are opened when he is implicated in a double murder...
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The Perfect Crime
Title: The Perfect Crime
Character: Trevor
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
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Rinty of the Desert
Title: Rinty of the Desert
Character: Pat
Released: April 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Rinty rescues heroine June and hero Pat from all manner of desert dangers, both natural and man-made. The film's high point of tension finds the canine star rescuing Nye from a deep pit.
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Powder My Back
Title: Powder My Back
Character: Jack Hale
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy, determines to revenge herself on Hale. Gaining entrance to his home by pretending to be injured in an automobile accident, Fritzi has Claude, her press agent, masquerade as a doctor and advise that she should not be disturbed until she has completely recovered. Hale is enraged, but his son, Jack, falls in love with Fritzi though he is already engaged to Ruth Stevens, an attractive flapper. When she sees that her plan has caused unhappiness for an innocent person, Fritzi dissuades Jack, who returns to his old sweetheart; she ends up with the mayor.
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The Sporting Age
Title: The Sporting Age
Character: Phillip Kingston
Released: March 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight. He keeps this from his wife, who continues her affair. Finally, he invites his young niece Nancy Driscoll (Josephine Borio) in the hopes she will fall for Philip and vice-versa. His ploy works, James reveals he can see again, and husband and wife are reconciled.
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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Marty
Released: February 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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A Race for Life
Title: A Race for Life
Character: Robert Hammond
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea. Their devotion to one another is proven beyond doubt when Danny is threatened by kidnappers.
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Little Mickey Grogan
Title: Little Mickey Grogan
Character: Jeffrey Shore
Released: December 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
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The Silver Slave
Title: The Silver Slave
Character: Larry Martin
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
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The Girl from Chicago
Title: The Girl from Chicago
Character: Bob Carlton
Released: November 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
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The Heart of Maryland
Title: The Heart of Maryland
Character: Lloyd Calvert
Released: July 13, 1927
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
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The Black Diamond Express
Title: The Black Diamond Express
Character: Fred Foster
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
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Kosher Kitty Kelly
Title: Kosher Kitty Kelly
Character: Barney Kelly
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
The story is a variation on the Abie's Irish Rose theme, detailing the marriage between an Irish Catholic and a Jew.
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Her Honor, the Governor
Title: Her Honor, the Governor
Character: Bob Fenway
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
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The Impostor
Title: The Impostor
Character: Dick Gilbert
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling debts and uses a valuable family jewel as security for a loan from Prince Borkoff, but it is stolen by Morris, a gambler.
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The Earth Woman
Title: The Earth Woman
Character: Steve Tilden
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.
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Classified
Title: Classified
Character: Mart Comet
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and position to get a husband.