George M. Carleton

Carleton died on September 23, 1950 at the age of 64 in Hollywood, California, and was interred at Chapel Of The Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.

He was an actor, known for The Purple Monster Strikes (1945), Just Off Broadway (1942) and Daughter of the Jungle (1949).

Carleton made his film debut in the small un-credited role of the judge in 1939's Back Door to Heaven. Over the next 10 years he appeared in over 100 films. Most of his roles were un-credited, but he would occasionally be given a larger, featured part, as in the role of Jones in Raiders of the Desert (1941), or as Judge Robert Walters in the 1942 drama Just Off Broadway, or as General Finney in the 1948 comedy-drama A Foreign Affair. Some notable films in which he appeared include: Michael Curtiz' classic Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman; 1944's romantic comedy, Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright; in Elia Kazan's film directorial debut, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), starring James Dunn (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Dorothy McGuire, and Joan Blondell; the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake; the 1946 Abbott and Costello comedy The Time of Their Lives; the classic drama Two Years Before the Mast, starring Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, and Barry Fitzgerald; the 1948 biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Words and Music, starring Tom Drake and Mickey Rooney; and the 1949 comedy Once More, My Darling, starring Robert Montgomery and Ann Blyth. Carleton's final screen performance was in 1949's Malaya, starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Valentina Cortesa.

George M. Carleton was born on October 28, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA.