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Carleton Carpenter (born Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr.; July 10, 1926) is an American film, television and stage actor, magician, author and songwriter.〔''International Motion Picture Almanac''. New York: Quigley Publishing Co., 1986.〕〔David Ragan. 1992. ''Who's Who in Hollywood. The largest cast of international film personalities ever assembled''. New York: Facts on File.〕 ==Biography== Carpenter was born in Bennington, Vermont, where he attended Bennington High School. Before signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was a magician and an actor on Broadway, beginning with David Merrick's first production ''Bright Boy'' in 1944, followed by co-starring appearances in ''Three to Make Ready'' with Ray Bolger, ''John Murray Anderson's Almanac'' and ''Hotel Paradiso'' with Bert Lahr and Angela Lansbury. Other stage appearances include ''Hello, Dolly! (musical)'' opposite Mary Martin (which toured Vietnam during the war and was filmed as a one-hour NBC-TV special), ''The Boys in the Band (play)'', ''Dylan'' with Rue McClanahan, ''Crazy For You'', and the City Center revival of Kander and Ebb's ''70, Girls, 70''. Carpenter was featured in ''Lost Boundaries'', then signed with MGM, where he had roles in such films as ''Summer Stock'', ''Father of the Bride'', ''Vengeance Valley'', ''The Whistle at Eaton Falls'', and the war dramas ''Take The High Ground'' and ''Up Periscope''. He later starred in ''Sky Full of Moon'', ''Fearless Fagan'', ''Three Little Words'', and ''Two Weeks With Love''. He wrote material for Debbie Reynolds, Kaye Ballard, Marlene Dietrich and Hermione Gingold, and also scripts for films and television. He guest-starred on numerous radio and TV shows. Along with Eva Marie Saint, he was one of the featured players on the very early television program ''Campus Hoopla'', which was produced by NBC, via WNBT in New York City, and which aired from 1946-47.Among his television appearances, Carpenter played Gilbert Burton, the recipient of $1,000,000 in a 1959 episode of ''The Millionaire''. In 1963 he played defendant Peter Brent in the ''Perry Mason'' episode "The Case of the Lover's Leap". Carpenter composed the songs "Christmas Eve", recorded by Billy Eckstine, "Cabin in the Woods" and "Ev'ry Other Day", which he recorded for MGM Records. In 1943 he wrote the words and melody of the song "Can We Forget."〔The Library of Congress Copyright Office: ''Catalog of Copyright Entries Published by Authority of the Acts of Congress of March 3, 1891, of June 30, 1906, and of March 4, 1909.'' Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943, Part 3, Musical Compositions, New Series, Vol. 38, Pt. 1, #1, pg. 9〕 His other song compositions include "I Wouldn't Mind", "A Little Love" and "Come Away". Carpenter may be remembered as a best-selling mystery novelist in the 1970s and 1980s. One of his books, ''Deadhead'', was turned into a Broadway musical production. Other books included ''Games Murderers Play'', ''Cat Got Your Tongue?'' ''Only Her Hairdresser Knew'', ''Sleight of Deadly Hand'', ''The Peabody Experience'' and ''Stumped''. He also had short stories published in the Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen mystery magazines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carleton Carpenter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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