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."
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Actor
as (archive footage)
as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Head Judge at County Fair
as Mr. Melville
as Doc J. Reid
as Marshal Wistful McClintock
as Lem Smoot
as Doc Temple
as Professor John C. Warren
as Edward "Gramp" Marsh
as Crew Chief
as Dextry
as Dr. Ben Saunders
as Dewey
as Bill Richards
as Daniel Howitt
as The Doctor
as George Vale Melton
as Captain Bailey
as Police Officer Tim Kerry
as President of the Senate
as (archive footage)
as Captain Bill Dugan
as Charles Putnam
as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
as P.G. Delano
as William 'Bill' Barker
as Captain Glennan
as Commissioner Nelson
as Col. Cornelius Stockton
as Mr. Morris
as Captain Josiah Storm
as Sam "Easy" Street
as Chief Martin
as Captain of the William Brown
as Dad Martin
as Tex Stevens
as Silver Jackson
as Tom Martin
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
as Sen. Nash
as Phil Yonne
as Dean Payton
as John Russell
as Kit Carson
as Commandant
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
as Trigger Carson
as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
as Jed Slocum
as Tucson Smith
as Cheyenne Kincaid
as Sheriff Clay Hartley
as Jim Gayner
as John Hesbitt
as Clark Sprague
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Bob Norton / Roberts
as John Brown / Jim Blake
as Hawkeye
as Jim Gray
as Ed Brandt
as Pete Marlan
as Captain John Allister
as McBaine
as 'Happy' Cardigan
as Aloysius "Trader" Horn
as Bill Storm
as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
as Jack Locasto
as Tom Munson
as Alexander Smith
as Bill Scott
as Jim Cardigan
as David Scanlon
as Daniel Brown
as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
as Patrick Angus O'Toole
as Pete Grainger
as Bob Smith
as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
as Pat Halahan
as Bill Jones
as Big Bill Benson
as Tiger Thompson
as Phlip Morgan
as 'The Hawk'
as Neil Allison
as Bob
as Blake
as Bob
as J. Wesley Pringle
as White Horse Harry
as Steve Packard
as Ol' Santa Fe
as Bart Carson
as John Wesley Pringle
as Ohio, the Stranger
as David Brent
as Dick Rainboldt
as Sundown Slim
as Job McCoy
as Jim Golden
as James 'Jim' Pierce
as Pierre Winton
as Overland Red
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Jim Kyneton
as Cheyenne Harry Henderson
as Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Lin McLean
as Cheyenne Harry
as Harry Ridge
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
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as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Jack Wilson
as Jack
as Buck Lessen
as Dick Glenning
as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Hair Trigger Burke
as William 'Red' Saunders
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Cheyenne Harry
as Ramon Valentine
as Dick Olney
as Dr. Ralph Hamlin
as Shifty
as Tom Horn
as Sky High
as Black La Rue
as Ballaret Bill
as Tom Wayne
as Bob Sangster
as The Squarest Sheriff Alive
as Blaze
as Tom Larnigan
as Cheyenne Harry
as Tom Larnigan
as Fergus Derrick
as Tom Larnigan
as Tom Larnigan
as Tom Larnigan
as Tom Larnigan
as Tom Larnigan
as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
as Miles Rand
as Jim
as The New Foreman
as Norris
as The Converted Cracksman
as The Bandit
as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
as Crook
as 1st Road Agent
as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
as 2nd Sportsman
as Dave Dawson
as Jackson - The Crook
as The Sheriff
as The Prospector
as Burleigh
as Texas Pete - the Bandit
as Cyril Bruce McVeagh
as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
as Ivan
as Assyrian Traitor
as The Foreman
as Engineer Daily
as First Son
as The Adopted Son
as The Young Man
as Keene, the Detective
as The Detective
as Society Detective
as The Thief
as Manning
as The Detective
as Bob - the Younger Brother
as The Crook
as The Son-in-Law
as The Convict
as Second Criminal
as Luke
as A Prospector
as The Bartender
as First Tramp
as The Gambler
as The Cowpuncher
as The Butler
as Giuseppe, the Farmhand
as Miller
as In Crowd (uncredited)
as The Widowed Father
as The Schemer
as The 'Bull'
as Olaf, an Atom
as The Butler
as The Gambler
as The Sailor
as The Left-Handed Thief
as The Superintendent
as The Husband
as Tony
as Second Bandit
as The Sheriff
as The Sheriff
as The Thief
as Raffles
as The Stage Manager / At Dinner
as The Mother's Favorite Son
as Third Thief
as The Thief
as The Thief
as Older Crook
as Indian
as At Theatre
as The Confederate Corporal
as The White Renegade Father
as Snapper's Sidekick
as At Ice Cream Festival
as The Neighbor's Friend
as Bob Cole
as 2nd Clan Member
as A Thief
as Bob Kyne - the Prospector
as In Audience
as The Safecracker
Writer
as Story
as Story
as Story
as Story
as Scenario Writer
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as Scenario Writer
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as Writer
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as Screenplay
as Story
Director
as Director
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Producer
Crew
as In Memory Of