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      Carleton Carpenter

      Carleton Carpenter

      Highest Rated: 100% Vengeance Valley (1951)

      Lowest Rated: 60% Lost Boundaries (1949)

      Birthday: Jul 10, 1926

      Birthplace: Bennington, Vermont, USA

      A gangling song-and-dance man with extensive TV and stage credits, Carpenter also made his brief mark in a handful of MGM musicals which embodied the small-town vision of the USA so prevalent in the 1950s. Thin as a rail and standing 6'3," Carpenter possessed a handsomely boyish face and loads of eager-beaver energy to match, all honed during a childhood spent as a performer. He was singing and dancing at age four and, by the time he was nine, was performing as a child magician in traveling carnivals. Carpenter served briefly with the Navy Seabees in WWII and made it to Broadway in his late teens in "Bright Boy" (1944). After making his feature debut in the sincere, low-budget, independently made film about a light-skinned African-American family passing for white, "Lost Boundaries" (1949), he was signed by MGM.

      Highest rated movies

      Vengeance Valley
      Summer Stock
      The Prowler
      Lost Boundaries

      Photos

      SKY FULL OF MOON, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, from left, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, 1952 THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS, Anne Francis, Carleton Carpenter, 1951 THREE LITTLE WORDS, Debbie Reynolds, Carleton Carpenter, 1950 SKY FULL OF MOON, from left, Jan Sterling, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, from left, Jan Sterling, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS, Carleton Carpenter, 1951 SUMMER STOCK, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Carlton Carpenter, 1950 TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE, Carleton Carpenter, Jane Powell, 1950 SKY FULL OF MOON, from left, Keenan Wynn, Jan Sterling, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 FEARLESS FAGAN, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, from left: Jan Sterling, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, Jan Sterling, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, Keenan Wynn, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, 1952 TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE, from left: Carleton Carpenter, Jane Powell, 1950 SKY FULL OF MOON, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, 1952 SKY FULL OF MOON, Carleton Carpenter, 1952 FEARLESS FAGAN, Carleton Carpenter, Janet Leigh, 1952
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      75% 49% The Prowler 1945 M.C (Character) - 1981
      No Score Yet 30% Up Periscope Lt. Phil Carney (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet 29% Take the High Ground Merton "Tex" Tolliver (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Sky Full of Moon Harley "Tumbleweeds" Williams (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Fearless Fagan Pvt. Floyd Hilston (Character) - 1952
      100% 23% Vengeance Valley Hewie (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Whistle at Eaton Falls Eddie Talbot (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 76% Two Weeks With Love Billy Finlay (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 78% Three Little Words Dan Healy (Character) - 1950
      100% 83% Summer Stock Artie (Character) - 1950
      60% 36% Lost Boundaries Andy (Character) - 1949

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Peter Brent (Guest Star) 1963
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Father Knows Best Unknown (Guest Star) 1960
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rifleman Unknown (Guest Star) 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Trackdown Jerry Kelso (Guest Star) 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Artie (Character) 1955