Harry Carey
Acting
Born: January 16, 1878 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: September 21, 1947 (aged 69)
Highest Rated
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
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Red River
1948
3 Godfathers
1948
Duel in the Sun
1946
Angel and the Badman
1947
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
The Spoilers
1942
Air Force
1943
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Kid Galahad
1937
So Dear to My Heart
1948
Photos (8)
Movies (176)
Red River
Mr. Melville
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
President of the Senate
Duel in the Sun
Lem Smoot
Angel and the Badman
Marshal Wistful McClintock
The Spoilers
Dextry
Directed by John Ford
(archive footage)
Air Force
Crew Chief
The Shepherd of the Hills
Daniel Howitt
Hell Bent
Cheyenne Harry
So Dear to My Heart
Head Judge at County Fair
The Sea of Grass
Doc J. Reid
Desert Driven
Bob
My Son Is Guilty
Police Officer Tim Kerry
Hearts Up
David Brent
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Commandant
Legends of the West
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buffalo Stampede
Clark Sprague
Kid Galahad
Silver Jackson
Bare Fists
Cheyenne Harry
The Kickback
White Horse Harry
Sundown Slim
Sundown Slim
Beyond Tomorrow
George Vale Melton
Roped
Cheyenne Harry
The Movie Album
(archive footage)
You and Me
Mr. Morris
Racing Lady
Tom Martin
Barbary Coast
Jed Slocum
Parachute Battalion
Bill Richards
Souls at Sea
Captain of the William Brown
The Great Moment
Professor John C. Warren
Man of the Forest
Jim Gayner
Little Miss Nobody
John Russell
Annapolis Salute
Chief Martin
Sundown
Dewey
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
(archive footage)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Snapper's Sidekick
Trader Horn
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
The Night Rider
John Brown / Jim Blake
Tiger Thompson
Tiger Thompson
The Accusing Finger
Sen. Nash
Among the Living
Dr. Ben Saunders
Judith of Bethulia
Assyrian Traitor
Roaring Rails
Big Bill Benson
Gateway
Commissioner Nelson
Straight Shooting
"Cheyenne" Harry
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Captain Bailey
In the Aisles of the Wild
Bob Cole
Land of Liberty
(archive footage)
Brutality
At Theatre
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
The Thief
Oil and Water
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
The Secret Man
Cheyenne Harry
Good Men and True
J. Wesley Pringle
The Last of the Mohicans
Hawkeye
West Is West
Dick Rainboldt
Man to Man
Steve Packard
Powdersmoke Range
Tucson Smith
Love's Lariat
Sky High
An Unseen Enemy
The Safecracker
Born Reckless
Dad Martin
Three Mounted Men
Cheyenne Harry
Sunset Pass
John Hesbitt
The Lightning Rider
Phlip Morgan
The Last Outlaw
Dean Payton
Border Cafe
Tex Stevens
Code of the Streets
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
The Law West of Tombstone
William 'Bill' Barker
Bucking Broadway
Cheyenne Harry
Danger Patrol
Sam "Easy" Street
A Marked Man
Cheyenne Harry
The Freeze-Out
Ohio, the Stranger
King of Alcatraz
Captain Glennan
Law and Order
Ed Brandt
Wild Women
Cheyenne Harry
The Scarlet Drop
Harry Ridge
Wild Mustang
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
The Trail of '98
Jack Locasto
Happy Land
Edward "Gramp" Marsh
Sky Giant
Col. Cornelius Stockton
The Ace of the Saddle
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
They Knew What They Wanted
The Doctor
Behind the Lines
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
Sutter's Gold
Kit Carson
Riders of Vengeance
Cheyenne Harry
Thieves' Gold
Cheyenne Harry
Ghost Town
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
Cheyenne's Pal
Cheyenne Harry
Olaf—An Atom
Olaf, an Atom
The Wallop
John Wesley Pringle
Near To Earth
1913
The Informer
The Confederate Corporal
China's Little Devils
Doc Temple
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Phil Yonne
Brute Force
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
Concentration
First Son
Street of Missing Men
Charles Putnam
A Cry for Help
The Thief
The Canceled Mortgage
1st Road Agent
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Cheyenne Harry
The Texas Trail
Pete Grainger
Friends
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
The Fox
Ol' Santa Fe
The Master Cracksman
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
If We Only Knew
The Sailor
A Woman's Fool
Lin McLean
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bad Lands
Patrick Angus O'Toole
Bad Company
McBaine
Inside Information
Captain Bill Dugan
The Painted Lady
At Ice Cream Festival
Cavalier of the West
Captain John Allister
Soft Shoes
Pat Halahan
The Devil Horse
Bob Norton / Roberts
The Soul Herder
Cheyenne Harry
Rider of the Law
Jim Kyneton
Canyon of the Fools
Bob
The Switchtower
1913
Two Daughters of Eve
In Audience
Border Devils
Jim Gray
The Vanishing Legion
'Happy' Cardigan
Aces Wild
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
2nd Clan Member
The Frontier Trail
Jim Cardigan
The Man from Red Gulch
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
Slide, Kelly, Slide
Tom Munson
The Outlaw and the Lady
Cheyenne Harry
Driftin' Thru
Daniel Brown
Desperate Trails
Bart Carson
Graft
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
Just Jim
Jim
Crashin' Thru
Blake
The Phantom Riders
Cheyenne Harry
Beyond the Border
Bob Smith
Marked Men
Cheyenne Harry
Satan Town
Bill Scott
Wagon Trail
Sheriff Clay Hartley
So Near, Yet So Far
A Thief
The Strong Man's Burden
Bob - the Younger Brother
Broken Ways
The Sheriff
Heredity
The White Renegade Father
Without Honor
Pete Marlan
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Older Crook
The Night Hawk
'The Hawk'
Bullet Proof
Pierre Winton
McVeagh of the South Seas
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
The Unwelcome Guest
The Sheriff
The Night Riders
The Apache Kid
A Fight For Love
Cheyenne Harry
The Golden Bullet
Jack
The Sheriff's Baby
Second Bandit
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
The Seventh Bandit
David Scanlon
A Knight of the Range
Cheyenne Harry
The Three Godfathers
Bob Sangster
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
P.G. Delano
The Flaming Forties
Bill Jones
The Prairie Pirate
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
Port of Missing Girls
Captain Josiah Storm
Blue Streak McCoy
Job McCoy
Burning Bridges
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
Overland Red
Overland Red
Silent Sanderson
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
The Tenderfoot's Money
The Gambler
The Last of the Clintons
Trigger Carson
The Committee on Credentials
Ballaret Bill
Her Father's Silent Partner
1914
'If Only' Jim
Jim Golden
The Miracle Baby
Neil Allison
A Little Journey
Alexander Smith
Rustler's Paradise
Cheyenne Kincaid
The Heart of a Bandit
Texas Pete - the Bandit
The Almost Good Man
Dick Glenning
The Fighting Gringo
William 'Red' Saunders
Human Stuff
James 'Jim' Pierce
The Border Patrol
Bill Storm
Self / Appearances (2)
Directing (3)
Writing (14)
Hell Bent
Story
Hell Bent
Writer
Hearts Up
Story
The Kickback
Story
The Gun Packer
Story
Riders of Vengeance
Story
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Story
The Fox
Story
The Master Cracksman
Writer
Soft Shoes
Story
The Outlaw and the Lady
Story
McVeagh of the South Seas
Story
A Knight of the Range
Scenario Writer
Human Stuff
Scenario Writer