Harry Carey

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1878-01-15

Deathday 1947-09-21 (69 years old)

Place of Birth The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Henry DeWitt Carey II, H.D. Carey, Harry D. Carey, Harry Carey Sr.

Harry Carey

Biography

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."

Known For

Actor

2000
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

as (archive footage)

1992
Legends of the West

as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'

1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1971
Directed by John Ford

as (archive footage)

1955
Film Fun

as (archive footage)

1948
So Dear to My Heart

as Head Judge at County Fair

1948
Red River

as Mr. Melville

1947
The Sea of Grass

as Doc J. Reid

1947
Angel and the Badman

as Marshal Wistful McClintock

1946
Duel in the Sun

as Lem Smoot

1945
China's Little Devils

as Doc Temple

1944
The Great Moment

as Professor John C. Warren

1943
Happy Land

as Edward "Gramp" Marsh

1943
Air Force

as Crew Chief

1942
The Spoilers

as Dextry

1941
Among the Living

as Dr. Ben Saunders

1941
Sundown

as Dewey

1941
Parachute Battalion

as Bill Richards

1941
The Shepherd of the Hills

as Daniel Howitt

1940
1940
Beyond Tomorrow

as George Vale Melton

1940
1939
My Son Is Guilty

as Police Officer Tim Kerry

1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as President of the Senate

1939
Land of Liberty

as (archive footage)

1939
Inside Information

as Captain Bill Dugan

1939
Street of Missing Men

as Charles Putnam

1939
Code of the Streets

as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis

1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

as P.G. Delano

1938
The Law West of Tombstone

as William 'Bill' Barker

1938
King of Alcatraz

as Captain Glennan

1938
Gateway

as Commissioner Nelson

1938
Sky Giant

as Col. Cornelius Stockton

1938
You and Me

as Mr. Morris

1938
Port of Missing Girls

as Captain Josiah Storm

1937
Danger Patrol

as Sam "Easy" Street

1937
Annapolis Salute

as Chief Martin

1937
Souls at Sea

as Captain of the William Brown

1937
Born Reckless

as Dad Martin

1937
Border Cafe

as Tex Stevens

1937
Kid Galahad

as Silver Jackson

1937
Racing Lady

as Tom Martin

1936
Aces Wild

as Cheyenne Harry Morgan

1936
The Accusing Finger

as Sen. Nash

1936
The Last Outlaw

as Dean Payton

1936
Little Miss Nobody

as John Russell

1936
Sutter's Gold

as Kit Carson

1936
Ghost Town

as Cheyenne Harry Morgan

1935
The Last of the Clintons

as Trigger Carson

1935
Wild Mustang

as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton

1935
Barbary Coast

as Jed Slocum

1935
Powdersmoke Range

as Tucson Smith

1935
Rustler's Paradise

as Cheyenne Kincaid

1935
Wagon Trail

as Sheriff Clay Hartley

1933
Man of the Forest

as Jim Gayner

1933
Sunset Pass

as John Hesbitt

1933
The Thundering Herd

as Clark Sprague

1933
The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1932
The Devil Horse

as Bob Norton / Roberts

1932
The Night Rider

as John Brown / Jim Blake

1932
Border Devils

as Jim Gray

1932
Law and Order

as Ed Brandt

1932
Without Honors

as Pete Marlan

1931
Cavalier of the West

as Captain John Allister

1931
Bad Company

as McBaine

1931
The Vanishing Legion

as 'Happy' Cardigan

1931
Trader Horn

as Aloysius "Trader" Horn

1928
The Border Patrol

as Bill Storm

1928
Burning Bridges

as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely

1928
The Trail of '98

as Jack Locasto

1927
Slide, Kelly, Slide

as Tom Munson

1927
A Little Journey

as Alexander Smith

1926
Satan Town

as Bill Scott

1926
The Frontier Trail

as Jim Cardigan

1926
The Seventh Bandit

as David Scanlon

1926
Driftin' Thru

as Daniel Brown

1925
The Man from Red Gulch

as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton

1925
The Prairie Pirate

as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney

1925
The Bad Lands

as Patrick Angus O'Toole

1925
The Texas Trail

as Pete Grainger

1925
Beyond the Border

as Bob Smith

1925
Silent Sanderson

as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson

1925
Soft Shoes

as Pat Halahan

1924
The Flaming Forties

as Bill Jones

1924
Roaring Rails

as Big Bill Benson

1924
Tiger Thompson

as Tiger Thompson

1924
The Lightning Rider

as Phlip Morgan

1924
The Night Hawk

as 'The Hawk'

1923
The Miracle Baby

as Neil Allison

1923
1923
Crashin' Thru

as Blake

1922
Good Men and True

as J. Wesley Pringle

1922
The Kickback

as White Horse Harry

1922
Man to Man

as Steve Packard

1921
The Fox

as Ol' Santa Fe

1921
Desperate Trails

as Bart Carson

1921
The Wallop

as John Wesley Pringle

1921
The Freeze-Out

as Ohio, the Stranger

1921
Hearts Up

as David Brent

1920
West Is West

as Dick Rainboldt

1920
Sundown Slim

as Sundown Slim

1920
Blue Streak McCoy

as Job McCoy

1920
'If Only' Jim

as Jim Golden

1920
Human Stuff

as James 'Jim' Pierce

1920
Bullet Proof

as Pierre Winton

1920
Overland Red

as Overland Red

1919
Marked Men

as Cheyenne Harry

1919
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman

as Cheyenne Harry

1919
Rider of the Law

as Jim Kyneton

1919
The Ace of the Saddle

as Cheyenne Harry Henderson

1919
The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst

1919
Riders of Vengeance

as Cheyenne Harry

1919
Bare Fists

as Cheyenne Harry

1919
A Fight For Love

as Cheyenne Harry

1919
Roped

as Cheyenne Harry

1918
Three Mounted Men

as Cheyenne Harry

1918
A Woman's Fool

as Lin McLean

1918
Hell Bent

as Cheyenne Harry

1918
The Scarlet Drop

as Harry Ridge

1918
Thieves' Gold

as Cheyenne Harry

1918
Wild Women

as Cheyenne Harry

1918
The Phantom Riders

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
Bucking Broadway

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
A Marked Man

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Secret Man

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
Straight Shooting

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
Cheyenne's Pal

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Soul Herder

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
Six-Shooter Justice

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Wrong Man

as Jack Wilson

1917
1917
The Mysterious Outlaw

as Buck Lessen

1917
The Almost Good Man

as Dick Glenning

1917
A 44-Calibre Mystery

as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Honor of an Outlaw

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
Hair-Trigger Burke

as Hair Trigger Burke

1917
The Fighting Gringo

as William 'Red' Saunders

1917
Goin' Straight

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Drifter

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Outlaw and the Lady

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
The Bad Man of Cheyenne

as Cheyenne Harry

1917
Blood Money

as Cheyenne Harry

1916
Guilty

as Ramon Valentine

1916
The Conspiracy

as Dick Olney

1916
Behind the Lines

as Dr. Ralph Hamlin

1916
The Devil's Own

as Shifty

1916
A Woman's Eyes

as Tom Horn

1916
Love's Lariat

as Sky High

1916
For the Love of a Girl

as Black La Rue

1916
1916
The Three Godfathers

as Bob Sangster

1916
The Wedding Guest

as The Squarest Sheriff Alive

1916
A Knight of the Range

as Cheyenne Harry

1916
The Insurance Swindlers

as Tom Larnigan

1916
Secret Love

as Fergus Derrick

1916
Old King Coal

as Tom Larnigan

1916
America Saved from War

as Tom Larnigan

1916
The Railroad Monopoly

as Tom Larnigan

1916
Grinding Life Down

as Tom Larnigan

1916
The Power of the People

as Tom Larnigan

1915
Graft

as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)

1915
Just Jim

as Jim

1915
As It Happened

as The New Foreman

1915
Old Offenders

as Norris

1915
Her Convert

as The Converted Cracksman

1915
The Way Out

as The Bandit

1915
Her Dormant Love

as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive

1915
The Canceled Mortgage

as 1st Road Agent

1915
A Day's Adventure

as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks

1915
A Double Winning

as 2nd Sportsman

1915
The Gambler's I.O.U.

as Dave Dawson

1915
The Miser's Legacy

as Jackson - The Crook

1915
The Sheriff's Dilemma

as The Sheriff

1915
The Love Transcendent

as The Prospector

1915
His Desperate Deed

as Burleigh

1915
The Heart of a Bandit

as Texas Pete - the Bandit

1914
McVeagh of the South Seas

as Cyril Bruce McVeagh

1914
The Master Cracksman

as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman

1914
Brute Force

as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)

1914
Her Hand

as Ivan

1914
Judith of Bethulia

as Assyrian Traitor

1914
A Nest Unfeathered

as The Foreman

1914
His Fireman's Conscience

as Engineer Daily

1914
1914
Concentration

as First Son

1913
The Abandoned Well

as The Adopted Son

1913
All for Science

as The Young Man

1913
The Detective's Stratagem

as Keene, the Detective

1913
The Stopped Clock

as The Detective

1913
The Van Nostrand Tiara

as Society Detective

1913
1913
1913
The Stolen Treaty

as The Detective

1913
The Strong Man's Burden

as Bob - the Younger Brother

1913
1913
The Work Habit

as The Son-in-Law

1913
1913
When Love Forgives

as Second Criminal

1913
The Vengeance of Galora

as A Prospector

1913
A Misappropriated Turkey

as The Bartender

1913
The Mirror

as First Tramp

1913
A Gambler's Honor

as The Gambler

1913
A Gamble with Death

as The Cowpuncher

1913
In Diplomatic Circles

as The Butler

1913
The Well

as Giuseppe, the Farmhand

1913
1913
Red Hicks Defies the World

as In Crowd (uncredited)

1913
The Sorrowful Shore

as The Widowed Father

1913
The Ranchero's Revenge

as The Schemer

1913
A Dangerous Foe

as The 'Bull'

1913
Olaf—An Atom

as Olaf, an Atom

1913
The Stolen Loaf

as The Butler

1913
The Tenderfoot's Money

as The Gambler

1913
If We Only Knew

as The Sailor

1913
The Left-Handed Man

as The Left-Handed Thief

1913
A Frightful Blunder

as The Superintendent

1913
The Stolen Bride

as The Husband

1913
The Sheriff's Baby

as Second Bandit

1913
The Unwelcome Guest

as The Sheriff

1913
Broken Ways

as The Sheriff

1913
1913
Oil and Water

as The Stage Manager / At Dinner

1913
Brothers

as The Mother's Favorite Son

1912
A Cry for Help

as The Thief

1912
1912
My Hero

as Indian

1912
Brutality

as At Theatre

1912
The Informer

as The Confederate Corporal

1912
Heredity

as The White Renegade Father

1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley

as Snapper's Sidekick

1912
The Painted Lady

as At Ice Cream Festival

1912
The One She Loved

as The Neighbor's Friend

1912
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

as 2nd Clan Member

1912
1912
Friends

as Bob Kyne - the Prospector

1912
Two Daughters of Eve

as In Audience

1912
An Unseen Enemy

as The Safecracker

Writer

1925
Soft Shoes

as Story

1922
The Kickback

as Story

1921
Hearts Up

as Story

1921
The Fox

as Story

1920
Human Stuff

as Scenario Writer

1919
1919
1917
1917
Blood Money

as Story

1916
A Knight of the Range

as Scenario Writer

1914
1913
1913

Director

1916
1916
Love's Lariat

as Director

1914

Producer

1918
The Phantom Riders

as Producer

1918
Wild Women

as Producer

1917
Bucking Broadway

as Producer

Crew

1948
3 Godfathers

as In Memory Of