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Harry Carey
Born · January 15, 1878
Died · September 21, 1947 (69 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Bio
Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 - September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero. One of his best known performances is as the president of the United States Senate in the drama film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was the father of Harry Carey Jr., who was also a prominent actor. Born in New York City to a Judge of Special Sessions who was also president of a sewing machine company. Grew up on City Island, New York. Attended Hamilton Military Academy and turned down an appointment to West Point to attend New York University, where his law school classmates included future New York City mayor James J. Walker. After a boating accident which led to pneumonia, Carey wrote a play while recuperating and toured the country in it for three years, earning a great deal of money, all of which evaporated after his next play was a failure. In 1911, his friend Henry B. Walthall introduced him to director D.W. Griffith, for whom Carey was to make many films. Carey married twice, the second time to actress Olive Fuller Golden (aka Olive Carey, who introduced him to future director John Ford. Carey influenced Universal Studios head Carl Laemmle to use Ford as a director, and a partnership was born that lasted until a rift in the friendship in 1921. During this time, Carey grew into one of the most popular Western stars of the early motion picture, occasionally writing and directing films as well. In the '30s he moved slowly into character roles and was nominated for an Oscar for one of them, the President of the Senate in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). He worked once more with Ford, in The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), and appeared once with his son, Harry Carey Jr., in Howard Hawks' Red River (1948). He died after a protracted bout with emphysema and cancer. Ford dedicated his remake of 3 Godfathers (1948) "To Harry Carey--Bright Star Of The Early Western Sky."
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
(archive footage)
0.0
2000
Legends of the West
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
0.0
1992
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
6.0
1972
Directed by John Ford
(archive footage)
6.8
1971
Film Fun
(archive footage)
4.0
1955
So Dear to My Heart
Head Judge at County Fair
6.5
1948
Red River
Mr. Melville
7.3
1948
The Sea of Grass
Doc J. Reid
6.2
1947
Angel and the Badman
Marshal Wistful McClintock
6.3
1947
Duel in the Sun
Lem Smoot
6.3
1946
China's Little Devils
Doc Temple
4.0
1945
The Great Moment
Professor John C. Warren
5.8
1944
Happy Land
Edward "Gramp" Marsh
6.2
1943
Air Force
Crew Chief
6.4
1943
The Spoilers
Dextry
6.2
1942
Among the Living
Dr. Ben Saunders
6.1
1941
Sundown
Dewey
5.4
1941
Parachute Battalion
Bill Richards
5.5
1941
The Shepherd of the Hills
Daniel Howitt
6.6
1941
They Knew What They Wanted
The Doctor
5.6
1940
Beyond Tomorrow
George Vale Melton
6.0
1940
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Captain Bailey
4.0
1940
My Son Is Guilty
Police Officer Tim Kerry
8.0
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
President of the Senate
7.9
1939
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
0.0
1939
Inside Information
Captain Bill Dugan
0.0
1939
Street of Missing Men
Charles Putnam
9.0
1939
Code of the Streets
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
7.0
1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
P.G. Delano
5.0
1939
The Law West of Tombstone
William 'Bill' Barker
4.0
1938
King of Alcatraz
Captain Glennan
5.7
1938
Gateway
Commissioner Nelson
6.5
1938
Sky Giant
Col. Cornelius Stockton
4.7
1938
You and Me
Mr. Morris
6.7
1938
Port of Missing Girls
Captain Josiah Storm
0.0
1938
Danger Patrol
Sam "Easy" Street
5.3
1937
Annapolis Salute
Chief Martin
6.0
1937
Souls at Sea
Captain of the William Brown
5.9
1937
Born Reckless
Dad Martin
5.5
1937
Border Cafe
Tex Stevens
6.3
1937
Kid Galahad
Silver Jackson
6.9
1937
Racing Lady
Tom Martin
5.3
1937
Aces Wild
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
0.0
1936
The Accusing Finger
Sen. Nash
4.7
1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Phil Yonne
6.3
1936
The Last Outlaw
Dean Payton
5.5
1936
Little Miss Nobody
John Russell
6.0
1936
Sutter's Gold
Kit Carson
0.0
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Commandant
6.9
1936
Ghost Town
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
5.0
1936
The Last of the Clintons
Trigger Carson
5.0
1935
Wild Mustang
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
0.0
1935
Barbary Coast
Jed Slocum
6.5
1935
Powdersmoke Range
Tucson Smith
0.0
1935
Rustler's Paradise
Cheyenne Kincaid
0.0
1935
Wagon Trail
Sheriff Clay Hartley
4.0
1935
Man of the Forest
Jim Gayner
5.5
1933
Sunset Pass
John Hesbitt
6.0
1933
The Thundering Herd
Clark Sprague
3.8
1933
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
0.0
1933
The Devil Horse
Bob Norton / Roberts
2.0
1932
The Night Rider
John Brown / Jim Blake
0.0
1932
The Last of the Mohicans
Hawkeye
6.0
1932
Border Devils
Jim Gray
5.3
1932
Law and Order
Ed Brandt
4.0
1932
Without Honors
Pete Marlan
5.0
1932
Cavalier of the West
Captain John Allister
4.8
1931
Bad Company
McBaine
4.6
1931
The Vanishing Legion
'Happy' Cardigan
9.0
1931
Trader Horn
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
5.3
1931
The Border Patrol
Bill Storm
0.0
1928
Burning Bridges
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
0.0
1928
The Trail of '98
Jack Locasto
6.2
1928
Slide, Kelly, Slide
Tom Munson
0.0
1927
A Little Journey
Alexander Smith
0.0
1927
Satan Town
Bill Scott
0.0
1926
The Frontier Trail
Jim Cardigan
0.0
1926
The Seventh Bandit
David Scanlon
0.0
1926
Driftin' Thru
Daniel Brown
0.0
1926
The Man from Red Gulch
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
0.0
1925
The Prairie Pirate
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
0.0
1925
The Bad Lands
Patrick Angus O'Toole
0.0
1925
The Texas Trail
Pete Grainger
0.0
1925
Beyond the Border
Bob Smith
0.0
1925
Silent Sanderson
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
0.0
1925
Soft Shoes
Pat Halahan
7.0
1925
The Flaming Forties
Bill Jones
0.0
1924
Roaring Rails
Big Bill Benson
6.8
1924
Tiger Thompson
Tiger Thompson
0.0
1924
The Lightning Rider
Phlip Morgan
0.0
1924
The Night Hawk
'The Hawk'
0.0
1924
The Miracle Baby
Neil Allison
0.0
1923
Desert Driven
Bob
0.0
1923
Crashin' Thru
Blake
0.0
1923
Canyon of the Fools
Bob
0.0
1923
Good Men and True
J. Wesley Pringle
0.0
1922
The Kickback
White Horse Harry
0.0
1922
Man to Man
Steve Packard
0.0
1922
The Fox
Ol' Santa Fe
0.0
1921
Desperate Trails
Bart Carson
4.0
1921
The Wallop
John Wesley Pringle
4.0
1921
The Freeze-Out
Ohio, the Stranger
4.0
1921
Hearts Up
David Brent
0.0
1921
West Is West
Dick Rainboldt
0.0
1920
Sundown Slim
Sundown Slim
0.0
1920
Blue Streak McCoy
Job McCoy
0.0
1920
'If Only' Jim
Jim Golden
0.0
1920
Human Stuff
James 'Jim' Pierce
0.0
1920
Bullet Proof
Pierre Winton
0.0
1920
Overland Red
Overland Red
0.0
1920
Marked Men
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1919
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1919
Rider of the Law
Jim Kyneton
5.0
1919
The Ace of the Saddle
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
5.0
1919
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
4.0
1919
Riders of Vengeance
Cheyenne Harry
3.0
1919
Bare Fists
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1919
A Fight For Love
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1919
Roped
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1919
Three Mounted Men
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1918
A Woman's Fool
Lin McLean
4.0
1918
Hell Bent
Cheyenne Harry
5.2
1918
The Scarlet Drop
Harry Ridge
3.5
1918
Thieves' Gold
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1918
Wild Women
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1918
The Phantom Riders
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1918
Bucking Broadway
Cheyenne Harry
5.5
1917
A Marked Man
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1917
The Secret Man
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1917
Straight Shooting
"Cheyenne" Harry
5.9
1917
Cheyenne's Pal
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1917
The Soul Herder
Cheyenne Harry
4.5
1917
Six-Shooter Justice
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
The Wrong Man
Jack Wilson
0.0
1917
The Golden Bullet
Jack
0.0
1917
The Mysterious Outlaw
Buck Lessen
0.0
1917
The Almost Good Man
Dick Glenning
0.0
1917
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
The Honor of an Outlaw
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
Hair-Trigger Burke
Hair Trigger Burke
0.0
1917
The Fighting Gringo
William 'Red' Saunders
0.0
1917
Goin' Straight
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
The Drifter
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
The Outlaw and the Lady
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
Blood Money
Cheyenne Harry
0.0
1917
Guilty
Ramon Valentine
0.0
1916
The Conspiracy
Dick Olney
0.0
1916
Behind the Lines
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
0.0
1916
The Devil's Own
Shifty
0.0
1916
A Woman's Eyes
Tom Horn
0.0
1916
Love's Lariat
Sky High
0.0
1916
For the Love of a Girl
Black La Rue
0.0
1916
The Committee on Credentials
Ballaret Bill
0.0
1916
The Jackals of a Great City
Tom Wayne
0.0
1916
The Three Godfathers
Bob Sangster
0.0
1916
The Wedding Guest
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
0.0
1916
The Passing of Hell's Crown
Blaze
0.0
1916
The Harbor Transportation Trust
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
A Knight of the Range
Cheyenne Harry
5.0
1916
The Insurance Swindlers
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
Secret Love
Fergus Derrick
0.0
1916
Old King Coal
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
America Saved from War
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
The Railroad Monopoly
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
Grinding Life Down
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
The Power of the People
Tom Larnigan
0.0
1916
Graft
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
0.0
1915
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Miles Rand
0.0
1915
Just Jim
Jim
0.0
1915
As It Happened
The New Foreman
0.0
1915
Old Offenders
Norris
0.0
1915
Her Convert
The Converted Cracksman
0.0
1915
The Way Out
The Bandit
0.0
1915
Her Dormant Love
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
0.0
1915
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Crook
0.0
1915
The Canceled Mortgage
1st Road Agent
0.0
1915
A Day's Adventure
Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
0.0
1915
A Double Winning
2nd Sportsman
0.0
1915
The Gambler's I.O.U.
Dave Dawson
0.0
1915
The Miser's Legacy
Jackson - The Crook
0.0
1915
The Sheriff's Dilemma
The Sheriff
0.0
1915
The Love Transcendent
The Prospector
0.0
1915
His Desperate Deed
Burleigh
0.0
1915
The Heart of a Bandit
Texas Pete - the Bandit
0.0
1915
McVeagh of the South Seas
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
4.7
1914
The Master Cracksman
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
0.0
1914
Brute Force
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
5.3
1914
Her Hand
Ivan
0.0
1914
Judith of Bethulia
Assyrian Traitor
6.3
1914
Her Father's Silent Partner
0.0
1914
A Nest Unfeathered
The Foreman
0.0
1914
His Fireman's Conscience
Engineer Daily
0.0
1914
Waifs
0.0
1914
Concentration
First Son
0.0
1914
The Abandoned Well
The Adopted Son
0.0
1913
For Her Government
0.0
1913
All for Science
The Young Man
0.0
1913
The Detective's Stratagem
Keene, the Detective
0.0
1913
The Stopped Clock
The Detective
0.0
1913
Madonna of the Storm
0.0
1913
The Van Nostrand Tiara
Society Detective
0.0
1913
A Tender-Hearted Crook
The Thief
0.0
1913
The Law and His Son
Manning
0.0
1913
The Stolen Treaty
The Detective
0.0
1913
A Modest Hero
0.0
1913
The Strong Man's Burden
Bob - the Younger Brother
5.0
1913
Black and White
0.0
1913
The Crook and the Girl
The Crook
0.0
1913
The Work Habit
The Son-in-Law
0.0
1913
Under the Shadow of the Law
The Convict
0.0
1913
When Love Forgives
Second Criminal
0.0
1913
I Was Meant for You
Luke
0.0
1913
The Vengeance of Galora
A Prospector
0.0
1913
A Misappropriated Turkey
The Bartender
0.0
1913
The Mirror
First Tramp
0.0
1913
A Gambler's Honor
The Gambler
0.0
1913
A Gamble with Death
The Cowpuncher
0.0
1913
In Diplomatic Circles
The Butler
0.0
1913
The Switchtower
5.0
1913
The Well
Giuseppe, the Farmhand
0.0
1913
The Enemy's Baby
Miller
0.0
1913
Red Hicks Defies the World
In Crowd (uncredited)
0.0
1913
The Sorrowful Shore
The Widowed Father
0.0
1913
The Ranchero's Revenge
The Schemer
0.0
1913
A Dangerous Foe
The 'Bull'
0.0
1913
Olaf—An Atom
Olaf, an Atom
0.0
1913
The Stolen Loaf
The Butler
0.0
1913
The Tenderfoot's Money
The Gambler
0.0
1913
If We Only Knew
The Sailor
0.0
1913
The Left-Handed Man
The Left-Handed Thief
0.0
1913
A Frightful Blunder
The Superintendent
0.0
1913
The Stolen Bride
The Husband
0.0
1913
The Hero of Little Italy
Tony
0.0
1913
The Sheriff's Baby
Second Bandit
5.0
1913
Near To Earth
0.0
1913
The Unwelcome Guest
The Sheriff
5.0
1913
Broken Ways
The Sheriff
0.0
1913
The Wrong Bottle
0.0
1913
Love in an Apartment Hotel
The Thief
0.0
1913
A Chance Deception
Raffles
0.0
1913
Oil and Water
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
0.0
1913
Brothers
The Mother's Favorite Son
0.0
1913
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Third Thief
0.0
1913
Pirate Gold
0.0
1913
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
The Thief
5.0
1913
A Cry for Help
The Thief
0.0
1912
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Older Crook
5.3
1912
My Hero
Indian
0.0
1912
Brutality
At Theatre
0.0
1912
The Informer
The Confederate Corporal
0.0
1912
Heredity
The White Renegade Father
0.0
1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Snapper's Sidekick
6.2
1912
The Painted Lady
At Ice Cream Festival
5.5
1912
The One She Loved
The Neighbor's Friend
0.0
1912
In the Aisles of the Wild
Bob Cole
0.0
1912
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
2nd Clan Member
4.5
1912
So Near, Yet So Far
A Thief
5.9
1912
Friends
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
5.5
1912
Two Daughters of Eve
In Audience
0.0
1912
An Unseen Enemy
The Safecracker
5.6
1912
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1.8
1910
Gentleman Joe
0.0
1910