Brother of Ben Nye.
Despite a score of leading man roles in Hollywood opposite such silent screen stars as Anita Page and Corinne Griffith, he is best remembered in the very small role of lumber-yard foreman Frank Kennedy, Scarlett O'Hara's ill-fated second husband, in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Educated at the University of California.
His mother, Myra Nye, worked for the Los Angeles Times. Carroll later became a reporter and radio editor with the Times.
Later served as a Hollywood newscaster and publicity man.
Uncle of Ben Nye Jr. and Dana Nye.