Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Morris Carnovsky (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1992) was an American stage and film actor born in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked briefly in the Yiddish theatre before attending Washington University in St. Louis. Opting for a mainstream acting career, he appeared in dozens of Broadway shows. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morris Carnovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and ...
The Gambler
1974
as A. R. Lowenthal
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add...
Dig: A Journey Into Earth
1972
as Earl of Limestone (voice)
A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form of...
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
1970
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
A View from the Bridge
1962
as Mr. Alfieri
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from...
The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959
as Aaron Katz / Presiding Angel
This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and televisi...
Medea
1959
as Creon
A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
as Le Bret
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano he...
The Second Woman
1950
as Dr. Raymond Hartley
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramoder...
Western Pacific Agent
1950
as Joe 'Pop' Wickens
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.
Gun Crazy
1950
as Judge Willoughby
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carniva...
Thieves' Highway
1949
as Yanko Garcos
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...
Siren of Atlantis
1949
as Le Mesge
Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis. Bewitch...
Man-Eater of Kumaon
1948
as Ganga Ram
A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts t...
Saigon
1947
as Alex Maris
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable fl...
Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947
as Howard Abbott
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk h...
Dishonored Lady
1947
as Dr. Richard Caleb
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depres...
Dead Reckoning
1946
as Martinelli
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publ...
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946
as Dr. Fletcher
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
Cornered
1945
as Manuel Satana
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945
as Bjorn Bjornson
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and A...
Rhapsody in Blue
1945
as Morris Gershwin
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
The Master Race
1944
as Old Man Bartoc
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary peop...
Address Unknown
1944
as Max Eisenstein
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
Edge of Darkness
1943
as Sixtus Andresen
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living ...
The City
1939
as Narrator (voice)
A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay ...
The 400 Million
1939
as Additional Voice (voice)
The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Jap...
Tovarich
1937
as Chauffourier Dubieff
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatia...
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Anatole France
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins...
Panther Woman of the Needle Trades, or The Lovely Life of Little Lisa
1931
as Jehovah
The photographer Ralph Steiner, who had been making abstract avant-garde films in the late 1920s, contributed his own parody of American economic life...