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