Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He wrote the screenplays for the 1974 Richard Chamberlain television version of The Count of Monte Cristo as well as the original story for the Michael Caine heist movie Gambit. He continued to write for television until 1986. Carroll is also remembered for a remarkable story called None Before Maine which Ray Bradbury included in the anthology Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow.
lieutenant describes a lonely miser who becomes fascinated by a lavish dollhouse.
Bradbury"s book is an anthology of fantasy stories, and it is only in the last sentence that the story turns to fantasy, with rather startling results. Carroll was married to Broadway lyricist June Carroll from 1940 until his death.
He is the father of prize-winning novelist Jonathan Carroll.