Harry Carey
Acting
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
Acting266
movieGolden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000
(archive footage)
movieLegends of the West
1992
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order' (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieHollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Self (archive footage)
movieDirected by John Ford
1971
(archive footage)
Film Fun
1955
(archive footage)
movieSo Dear to My Heart
1948
Head Judge at County Fair
movieRed River
1948
Mr. Melville
movieThe Sea of Grass
1947
Doc J. Reid
movieAngel and the Badman
1947
Marshal Wistful McClintock
movieDuel in the Sun
1946
Lem Smoot
movieChina's Little Devils
1945
Doc Temple
movieThe Great Moment
1944
Professor John C. Warren
movieHappy Land
1943
Edward "Gramp" Marsh
movieAir Force
1943
Crew Chief
movieThe Spoilers
1942
Dextry
movieAmong the Living
1941
Dr. Ben Saunders
movieSundown
1941
Dewey
movieParachute Battalion
1941
Bill Richards
movieThe Shepherd of the Hills
1941
Daniel Howitt
movieThey Knew What They Wanted
1940
The Doctor
movieBeyond Tomorrow
1940
George Vale Melton
movieOutside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
Captain Bailey
movieMy Son Is Guilty
1939
Police Officer Tim Kerry
movieMr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
President of the Senate
movieLand of Liberty
1939
(archive footage)
movieInside Information
1939
Captain Bill Dugan
movieStreet of Missing Men
1939
Charles Putnam
movieCode of the Streets
1939
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
movieBurn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
P.G. Delano
movieThe Law West of Tombstone
1938
William 'Bill' Barker
movieKing of Alcatraz
1938
Captain Glennan
movieGateway
1938
Commissioner Nelson
movieSky Giant
1938
Col. Cornelius Stockton
movieYou and Me
1938
Mr. Morris
moviePort of Missing Girls
1938
Captain Josiah Storm
movieDanger Patrol
1937
Sam "Easy" Street
movieAnnapolis Salute
1937
Chief Martin
movieSouls at Sea
1937
Captain of the William Brown
movieBorn Reckless
1937
Dad Martin
movieBorder Cafe
1937
Tex Stevens
movieKid Galahad
1937
Silver Jackson
movieLest We Forget
1937
Himself
movieRacing Lady
1937
Tom Martin
movieAces Wild
1936
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
movieThe Accusing Finger
1936
Sen. Nash
movieValiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
Phil Yonne
movieThe Last Outlaw
1936
Dean Payton
movieLittle Miss Nobody
1936
John Russell
movieSutter's Gold
1936
Kit Carson
movieThe Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Commandant
movieGhost Town
1936
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
movieThe Last of the Clintons
1935
Trigger Carson
movieWild Mustang
1935
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
movieBarbary Coast
1935
Jed Slocum
moviePowdersmoke Range
1935
Tucson Smith
movieRustler's Paradise
1935
Cheyenne Kincaid
movieWagon Trail
1935
Sheriff Clay Hartley
movieMan of the Forest
1933
Jim Gayner
movieSunset Pass
1933
John Hesbitt
movieBuffalo Stampede
1933
Clark Sprague
movieThe Film Parade
1933
(archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Devil Horse
1932
Bob Norton / Roberts
movieThe Night Rider
1932
John Brown / Jim Blake
movieBorder Devils
1932
Jim Gray
movieThe Movie Album
1932
(archive footage)
movieLaw and Order
1932
Ed Brandt
movieWithout Honor
1932
Pete Marlan
movieCavalier of the West
1931
Captain John Allister
movieBad Company
1931
McBaine
movieThe Vanishing Legion
1931
'Happy' Cardigan
movieTrader Horn
1931
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
movieThe Border Patrol
1928
Bill Storm
movieBurning Bridges
1928
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
movieThe Trail of '98
1928
Jack Locasto
movieSlide, Kelly, Slide
1927
Tom Munson
movieA Little Journey
1927
Alexander Smith
movieSatan Town
1926
Bill Scott
movieThe Frontier Trail
1926
Jim Cardigan
movieThe Seventh Bandit
1926
David Scanlon
movieDriftin' Thru
1926
Daniel Brown
movieThe Man from Red Gulch
1925
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
movieThe Prairie Pirate
1925
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
movieThe Bad Lands
1925
Patrick Angus O'Toole
movieThe Texas Trail
1925
Pete Grainger
movieBeyond the Border
1925
Bob Smith
movieSilent Sanderson
1925
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
movieSoft Shoes
1925
Pat Halahan
movieThe Flaming Forties
1924
Bill Jones
movieRoaring Rails
1924
Big Bill Benson
movieTiger Thompson
1924
Tiger Thompson
movieThe Lightning Rider
1924
Phlip Morgan
movieThe Night Hawk
1924
'The Hawk'
movieThe Miracle Baby
1923
Neil Allison
movieGood Men and True
1922
J. Wesley Pringle
movieThe Kickback
1922
White Horse Harry
movieMan to Man
1922
Steve Packard
movieThe Fox
1921
Ol' Santa Fe
movieDesperate Trails
1921
Bart Carson
movieThe Wallop
1921
John Wesley Pringle
movieThe Freeze-Out
1921
Ohio, the Stranger
movieHearts Up
1921
David Brent
movieWest Is West
1920
Dick Rainboldt
movieSundown Slim
1920
Sundown Slim
movieBlue Streak McCoy
1920
Job McCoy
movie'If Only' Jim
1920
Jim Golden
movieHuman Stuff
1920
James 'Jim' Pierce
movieBullet Proof
1920
Pierre Winton
movieOverland Red
1920
Overland Red
movieMarked Men
1919
Cheyenne Harry
movieA Gun Fightin' Gentleman
1919
Cheyenne Harry
movieRider of the Law
1919
Jim Kyneton
movieThe Ace of the Saddle
1919
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
movieThe Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
movieRiders of Vengeance
1919
Cheyenne Harry
movieBare Fists
1919
Cheyenne Harry
movieA Fight For Love
1919
Cheyenne Harry
movieRoped
1919
Cheyenne Harry
movieThree Mounted Men
1918
Cheyenne Harry
movieA Woman's Fool
1918
Lin McLean
movieHell Bent
1918
Cheyenne Harry
movieThe Scarlet Drop
1918
Harry Ridge
movieThieves' Gold
1918
Cheyenne Harry
movieWild Women
1918
Cheyenne Harry
movieThe Phantom Riders
1918
Cheyenne Harry
movieBucking Broadway
1917
Cheyenne Harry
movieA Marked Man
1917
Cheyenne Harry
movieThe Secret Man
1917
Cheyenne Harry
movieStraight Shooting
1917
"Cheyenne" Harry
movieCheyenne's Pal
1917
Cheyenne Harry
movieThe Soul Herder
1917
Cheyenne Harry
Six-Shooter Justice
1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Wrong Man
1917
Jack Wilson
movieThe Almost Good Man
1917
Dick Glenning
movieA 44-Calibre Mystery
1917
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917
Cheyenne Harry
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917
Hair Trigger Burke
movieThe Fighting Gringo
1917
William 'Red' Saunders
Goin' Straight
1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Drifter
1917
Cheyenne Harry
movieThe Outlaw and the Lady
1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917
Cheyenne Harry
Blood Money
1917
Cheyenne Harry
Guilty
1916
Ramon Valentine
The Conspiracy
1916
Dick Olney
movieBehind the Lines
1916
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
movieLove's Lariat
1916
Sky High
movieThe Committee on Credentials
1916
Ballaret Bill
movieThe Three Godfathers
1916
Bob Sangster
The Wedding Guest
1916
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
movieThe Night Riders
1916
The Apache Kid
movieA Knight of the Range
1916
Cheyenne Harry
Secret Love
1916
Fergus Derrick
Old King Coal
1916
Tom Larnigan
Grinding Life Down
1916
Tom Larnigan
movieGraft
1915
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
As It Happened
1915
The New Foreman
Her Convert
1915
The Converted Cracksman
The Way Out
1915
The Bandit
Her Dormant Love
1915
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
movieThe Canceled Mortgage
1915
1st Road Agent
A Day's Adventure
1915
Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
A Double Winning
1915
2nd Sportsman
The Miser's Legacy
1915
Jackson - The Crook
The Love Transcendent
1915
The Prospector
movieThe Heart of a Bandit
1915
Texas Pete - the Bandit
movieMcVeagh of the South Seas
1914
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
movieThe Master Cracksman
1914
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
movieBrute Force
1914
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
movieJudith of Bethulia
1914
Assyrian Traitor
movieConcentration
1914
First Son
The Abandoned Well
1913
The Adopted Son
All for Science
1913
The Young Man
The Detective's Stratagem
1913
Keene, the Detective
The Stopped Clock
1913
The Detective
The Van Nostrand Tiara
1913
Society Detective
The Stolen Treaty
1913
The Detective
movieThe Strong Man's Burden
1913
Bob - the Younger Brother
The Work Habit
1913
The Son-in-Law
When Love Forgives
1913
Second Criminal
The Mirror
1913
First Tramp
A Gambler's Honor
1913
The Gambler
A Gamble with Death
1913
The Cowpuncher
The Well
1913
Giuseppe, the Farmhand
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913
In Crowd (uncredited)
The Sorrowful Shore
1913
The Widowed Father
A Dangerous Foe
1913
The 'Bull'
movieOlaf—An Atom
1913
Olaf, an Atom
The Stolen Loaf
1913
The Butler
movieThe Tenderfoot's Money
1913
The Gambler
movieIf We Only Knew
1913
The Sailor
The Left-Handed Man
1913
The Left-Handed Thief
A Frightful Blunder
1913
The Superintendent
The Stolen Bride
1913
The Husband
movieThe Sheriff's Baby
1913
Second Bandit
movieThe Unwelcome Guest
1913
The Sheriff
movieBroken Ways
1913
The Sheriff
movieOil and Water
1913
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
Brothers
1913
The Mother's Favorite Son
movieA Cry for Help
1912
The Thief
movieThe Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
Older Crook
My Hero
1912
Indian
movieBrutality
1912
At Theatre
movieThe Informer
1912
The Confederate Corporal
movieHeredity
1912
The White Renegade Father
movieThe Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
Snapper's Sidekick
movieThe Painted Lady
1912
At Ice Cream Festival
The One She Loved
1912
The Neighbor's Friend
movieA Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912
2nd Clan Member
movieSo Near, Yet So Far
1912
A Thief
movieFriends
1912
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
movieTwo Daughters of Eve
1912
In Audience
movieAn Unseen Enemy
1912
The Safecracker
Writing19
movieSoft Shoes
1925
Story
movieThe Fox
1921
Story
movieHearts Up
1921
Story
movieHuman Stuff
1920
Scenario Writer
movieHell Bent
1918
Story, Writer
movieA Knight of the Range
1916
Scenario Writer
Under the Shadow of the Law
1913
Screenplay, Story
Directing4
Production3
Crew1
movie3 Godfathers
1948
In Memory Of