Harry Carey
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 16, 1878
- Died
- September 21, 1947
- Birthplace
- The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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."
Filmography
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs 2000
as (archive footage)
Legends of the West 1992
as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory 1972
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by John Ford 1971
as (archive footage)
- Film Fun
Film Fun 1955
as (archive footage)
3 Godfathers 1948
In Memory Of
So Dear to My Heart 1948
as Head Judge at County Fair
Red River 1948
as Mr. Melville
The Sea of Grass 1947
as Doc J. Reid
Angel and the Badman 1947
as Marshal Wistful McClintock
Duel in the Sun 1946
as Lem Smoot
China's Little Devils 1945
as Doc Temple
The Great Moment 1944
as Professor John C. Warren
Happy Land 1943
as Edward "Gramp" Marsh
Air Force 1943
as Crew Chief
The Spoilers 1942
as Dextry
Among the Living 1941
as Dr. Ben Saunders
Sundown 1941
as Dewey
Parachute Battalion 1941
as Bill Richards
The Shepherd of the Hills 1941
as Daniel Howitt
They Knew What They Wanted 1940
as The Doctor
Beyond Tomorrow 1940
as George Vale Melton
Outside the Three-Mile Limit 1940
as Captain Bailey
My Son Is Guilty 1939
as Police Officer Tim Kerry
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
as President of the Senate
Land of Liberty 1939
as (archive footage)
Inside Information 1939
as Captain Bill Dugan
Street of Missing Men 1939
as Charles Putnam
Code of the Streets 1939
as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor 1939
as P.G. Delano
The Law West of Tombstone 1938
as William 'Bill' Barker
King of Alcatraz 1938
as Captain Glennan
Gateway 1938
as Commissioner Nelson
Sky Giant 1938
as Col. Cornelius Stockton
You and Me 1938
as Mr. Morris
Port of Missing Girls 1938
as Captain Josiah Storm
Danger Patrol 1937
as Sam "Easy" Street
Annapolis Salute 1937
as Chief Martin
Souls at Sea 1937
as Captain of the William Brown
Born Reckless 1937
as Dad Martin
Border Cafe 1937
as Tex Stevens
Kid Galahad 1937
as Silver Jackson
Lest We Forget 1937
as Himself
Racing Lady 1937
as Tom Martin
Aces Wild 1936
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
The Accusing Finger 1936
as Sen. Nash
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie 1936
as Phil Yonne
The Last Outlaw 1936
as Dean Payton
Little Miss Nobody 1936
as John Russell
Sutter's Gold 1936
as Kit Carson
The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936
as Commandant
Ghost Town 1936
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
The Last of the Clintons 1935
as Trigger Carson
Wild Mustang 1935
as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
Barbary Coast 1935
as Jed Slocum
Powdersmoke Range 1935
as Tucson Smith
Rustler's Paradise 1935
as Cheyenne Kincaid
Wagon Trail 1935
as Sheriff Clay Hartley
Man of the Forest 1933
as Jim Gayner
Sunset Pass 1933
as John Hesbitt
Buffalo Stampede 1933
as Clark Sprague
The Film Parade 1933
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Devil Horse 1932
as Bob Norton / Roberts
The Night Rider 1932
as John Brown / Jim Blake
The Last of the Mohicans 1932
as Hawkeye
Border Devils 1932
as Jim Gray
The Movie Album 1932
as (archive footage)
Law and Order 1932
as Ed Brandt
Without Honor 1932
as Pete Marlan
Cavalier of the West 1931
as Captain John Allister
Bad Company 1931
as McBaine
The Vanishing Legion 1931
as 'Happy' Cardigan
Trader Horn 1931
as Aloysius "Trader" Horn
The Border Patrol 1928
as Bill Storm
Burning Bridges 1928
as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
The Trail of '98 1928
as Jack Locasto
Slide, Kelly, Slide 1927
as Tom Munson
A Little Journey 1927
as Alexander Smith
Satan Town 1926
as Bill Scott
The Frontier Trail 1926
as Jim Cardigan
The Seventh Bandit 1926
as David Scanlon
Driftin' Thru 1926
as Daniel Brown
The Man from Red Gulch 1925
as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
The Prairie Pirate 1925
as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
The Bad Lands 1925
as Patrick Angus O'Toole
The Texas Trail 1925
as Pete Grainger
Beyond the Border 1925
as Bob Smith
Silent Sanderson 1925
as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
Soft Shoes 1925
as Pat Halahan, Story
The Flaming Forties 1924
as Bill Jones
Roaring Rails 1924
as Big Bill Benson
Tiger Thompson 1924
as Tiger Thompson
The Lightning Rider 1924
as Phlip Morgan
The Night Hawk 1924
as 'The Hawk'
The Miracle Baby 1923
as Neil Allison
Desert Driven 1923
as Bob
Crashin' Thru 1923
as Blake
Canyon of the Fools 1923
as Bob
Good Men and True 1922
as J. Wesley Pringle
The Kickback 1922
as White Horse Harry, Story
Man to Man 1922
as Steve Packard
The Fox 1921
as Ol' Santa Fe, Story
Desperate Trails 1921
as Bart Carson
The Wallop 1921
as John Wesley Pringle
The Freeze-Out 1921
as Ohio, the Stranger
Hearts Up 1921
as David Brent, Story
West Is West 1920
as Dick Rainboldt
Sundown Slim 1920
as Sundown Slim
Blue Streak McCoy 1920
as Job McCoy
'If Only' Jim 1920
as Jim Golden
Human Stuff 1920
as James 'Jim' Pierce, Scenario Writer
Bullet Proof 1920
as Pierre Winton
Overland Red 1920
as Overland Red
Marked Men 1919
as Cheyenne Harry
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman 1919
as Cheyenne Harry, Story
Rider of the Law 1919
as Jim Kyneton
The Ace of the Saddle 1919
as Cheyenne Harry Henderson
The Outcasts of Poker Flat 1919
as Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
Riders of Vengeance 1919
as Cheyenne Harry, Story
The Gun Packer 1919
Story
Bare Fists 1919
as Cheyenne Harry
A Fight For Love 1919
as Cheyenne Harry
Roped 1919
as Cheyenne Harry
Three Mounted Men 1918
as Cheyenne Harry
A Woman's Fool 1918
as Lin McLean
Hell Bent 1918
as Cheyenne Harry, Story, Writer
The Scarlet Drop 1918
as Harry Ridge
Thieves' Gold 1918
as Cheyenne Harry
Wild Women 1918
as Cheyenne Harry, Producer
The Phantom Riders 1918
as Cheyenne Harry, Producer
Bucking Broadway 1917
as Cheyenne Harry, Producer
A Marked Man 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
The Secret Man 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
Straight Shooting 1917
as "Cheyenne" Harry
Cheyenne's Pal 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
The Soul Herder 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
- Six-Shooter Justice
Six-Shooter Justice 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
- The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man 1917
as Jack Wilson
The Golden Bullet 1917
as Jack
- The Mysterious Outlaw
The Mysterious Outlaw 1917
as Buck Lessen
The Almost Good Man 1917
as Dick Glenning
A 44-Calibre Mystery 1917
as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
- The Honor of an Outlaw
The Honor of an Outlaw 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
- Hair-Trigger Burke
Hair-Trigger Burke 1917
as Hair Trigger Burke
The Fighting Gringo 1917
as William 'Red' Saunders
- Goin' Straight
Goin' Straight 1917
as Cheyenne Harry, Story
- The Drifter
The Drifter 1917
as Cheyenne Harry
The Outlaw and the Lady 1917
as Cheyenne Harry, Story
- The Bad Man of Cheyenne
The Bad Man of Cheyenne 1917
as Cheyenne Harry, Story
- Blood Money
Blood Money 1917
as Cheyenne Harry, Story
- Guilty
Guilty 1916
as Ramon Valentine
- The Conspiracy
The Conspiracy 1916
as Dick Olney
Behind the Lines 1916
as Dr. Ralph Hamlin
- The Devil's Own
The Devil's Own 1916
as Shifty
- A Woman's Eyes
A Woman's Eyes 1916
as Tom Horn
Love's Lariat 1916
as Sky High, Director
- For the Love of a Girl
For the Love of a Girl 1916
as Black La Rue, Director
The Committee on Credentials 1916
as Ballaret Bill
- The Jackals of a Great City
The Jackals of a Great City 1916
as Tom Wayne
The Three Godfathers 1916
as Bob Sangster
- The Wedding Guest
The Wedding Guest 1916
as The Squarest Sheriff Alive
- The Passing of Hell's Crown
The Passing of Hell's Crown 1916
as Blaze
The Night Riders 1916
as The Apache Kid
- Stampede in the Night
Stampede in the Night 1916
Story
- The Harbor Transportation Trust
The Harbor Transportation Trust 1916
as Tom Larnigan
A Knight of the Range 1916
as Cheyenne Harry, Scenario Writer
- The Insurance Swindlers
The Insurance Swindlers 1916
as Tom Larnigan
- Secret Love
Secret Love 1916
as Fergus Derrick
- Old King Coal
Old King Coal 1916
as Tom Larnigan
- America Saved from War
America Saved from War 1916
as Tom Larnigan
- The Railroad Monopoly
The Railroad Monopoly 1916
as Tom Larnigan
- Grinding Life Down
Grinding Life Down 1916
as Tom Larnigan
- The Power of the People
The Power of the People 1916
as Tom Larnigan
Graft 1915
as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
- Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings 1915
as Miles Rand
Just Jim 1915
as Jim
- As It Happened
As It Happened 1915
as The New Foreman
- Old Offenders
Old Offenders 1915
as Norris
- Her Convert
Her Convert 1915
as The Converted Cracksman
- The Way Out
The Way Out 1915
as The Bandit
- Her Dormant Love
Her Dormant Love 1915
as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
- Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Truth Stranger Than Fiction 1915
as Crook
The Canceled Mortgage 1915
as 1st Road Agent
- A Day's Adventure
A Day's Adventure 1915
as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
- A Double Winning
A Double Winning 1915
as 2nd Sportsman
- The Gambler's I.O.U.
The Gambler's I.O.U. 1915
as Dave Dawson
- The Miser's Legacy
The Miser's Legacy 1915
as Jackson - The Crook
- The Sheriff's Dilemma
The Sheriff's Dilemma 1915
as The Sheriff
- The Love Transcendent
The Love Transcendent 1915
as The Prospector
- His Desperate Deed
His Desperate Deed 1915
as Burleigh
The Heart of a Bandit 1915
as Texas Pete - the Bandit
McVeagh of the South Seas 1914
as Cyril Bruce McVeagh, Story, Director
The Master Cracksman 1914
as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman, Director, Writer
Brute Force 1914
as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
- Her Hand
Her Hand 1914
as Ivan
Judith of Bethulia 1914
as Assyrian Traitor
Her Father's Silent Partner 1914
Actor
- A Nest Unfeathered
A Nest Unfeathered 1914
as The Foreman
- His Fireman's Conscience
His Fireman's Conscience 1914
as Engineer Daily
- Waifs
Waifs 1914
Actor
Concentration 1914
as First Son
- The Abandoned Well
The Abandoned Well 1913
as The Adopted Son
- For Her Government
For Her Government 1913
Actor
- All for Science
All for Science 1913
as The Young Man
- The Detective's Stratagem
The Detective's Stratagem 1913
as Keene, the Detective
- The Stopped Clock
The Stopped Clock 1913
as The Detective
- Madonna of the Storm
Madonna of the Storm 1913
Actor
- The Van Nostrand Tiara
The Van Nostrand Tiara 1913
as Society Detective
- A Tender-Hearted Crook
A Tender-Hearted Crook 1913
as The Thief
- The Law and His Son
The Law and His Son 1913
as Manning
- The Stolen Treaty
The Stolen Treaty 1913
as The Detective
- A Modest Hero
A Modest Hero 1913
Actor
The Strong Man's Burden 1913
as Bob - the Younger Brother
- Black and White
Black and White 1913
Actor
- The Crook and the Girl
The Crook and the Girl 1913
as The Crook
- The Work Habit
The Work Habit 1913
as The Son-in-Law
- I Was Meant for You
I Was Meant for You 1913
as Luke
- Under the Shadow of the Law
Under the Shadow of the Law 1913
as The Convict, Screenplay, Story
- When Love Forgives
When Love Forgives 1913
as Second Criminal
- The Vengeance of Galora
The Vengeance of Galora 1913
as A Prospector
- A Misappropriated Turkey
A Misappropriated Turkey 1913
as The Bartender
- The Mirror
The Mirror 1913
as First Tramp
- A Gambler's Honor
A Gambler's Honor 1913
as The Gambler, Writer
- The Enemy's Baby
The Enemy's Baby 1913
as Miller
- A Gamble with Death
A Gamble with Death 1913
as The Cowpuncher
- In Diplomatic Circles
In Diplomatic Circles 1913
as The Butler
The Switchtower 1913
Actor
- The Well
The Well 1913
as Giuseppe, the Farmhand
- Red Hicks Defies the World
Red Hicks Defies the World 1913
as In Crowd (uncredited)
- The Sorrowful Shore
The Sorrowful Shore 1913
as The Widowed Father
- The Ranchero's Revenge
The Ranchero's Revenge 1913
as The Schemer
- A Dangerous Foe
A Dangerous Foe 1913
as The 'Bull'
Olaf—An Atom 1913
as Olaf, an Atom
- The Stolen Loaf
The Stolen Loaf 1913
as The Butler
The Tenderfoot's Money 1913
as The Gambler
If We Only Knew 1913
as The Sailor
- The Left-Handed Man
The Left-Handed Man 1913
as The Left-Handed Thief
- A Frightful Blunder
A Frightful Blunder 1913
as The Superintendent
- The Stolen Bride
The Stolen Bride 1913
as The Husband
- The Hero of Little Italy
The Hero of Little Italy 1913
as Tony
The Sheriff's Baby 1913
as Second Bandit
Near To Earth 1913
Actor
The Unwelcome Guest 1913
as The Sheriff
Broken Ways 1913
as The Sheriff
- The Wrong Bottle
The Wrong Bottle 1913
Actor
- Love in an Apartment Hotel
Love in an Apartment Hotel 1913
as The Thief
- A Chance Deception
A Chance Deception 1913
as Raffles
Oil and Water 1913
as The Stage Manager / At Dinner
- Brothers
Brothers 1913
as The Mother's Favorite Son
- An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods 1913
as Third Thief
- Pirate Gold
Pirate Gold 1913
Actor
The Telephone Girl and the Lady 1913
as The Thief
A Cry for Help 1912
as The Thief
The Burglar’s Dilemma 1912
as Older Crook
- My Hero
My Hero 1912
as Indian
Brutality 1912
as At Theatre
The Informer 1912
as The Confederate Corporal
Heredity 1912
as The White Renegade Father
The Musketeers of Pig Alley 1912
as Snapper's Sidekick
The Painted Lady 1912
as At Ice Cream Festival
- The One She Loved
The One She Loved 1912
as The Neighbor's Friend
In the Aisles of the Wild 1912
as Bob Cole
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills 1912
as 2nd Clan Member
So Near, Yet So Far 1912
as A Thief
Friends 1912
as Bob Kyne - the Prospector
Two Daughters of Eve 1912
as In Audience
An Unseen Enemy 1912
as The Safecracker
- Bill Sharkey's Last Game
Bill Sharkey's Last Game 1910
Actor
- Gentleman Joe
Gentleman Joe 1910
Actor
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