Harry Carey
267 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 16, 1878
- Died
- Sep 21, 1947 (age 69)
- 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.
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.
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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."
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Harry Carey: movies and TV shows
Acting (264)
- 2000 Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
as (archive footage)
- 1992 Legends of the West
as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1971 Directed by John Ford
as (archive footage)
- 1955 Film Fun
as (archive footage)
- 1948 So Dear to My Heart
as Head Judge at County Fair
- 1948 Red River
as Mr. Melville
- 1947 The Sea of Grass
as Doc J. Reid
- 1947 Angel and the Badman
as Marshal Wistful McClintock
- 1946 Duel in the Sun
as Lem Smoot
- 1945 China's Little Devils
as Doc Temple
- 1944 The Great Moment
as Professor John C. Warren
- 1943 Happy Land
as Edward "Gramp" Marsh
- 1943 Air Force
as Crew Chief
- 1942 The Spoilers
as Dextry
- 1941 Among the Living
as Dr. Ben Saunders
- 1941 Sundown
as Dewey
- 1941 Parachute Battalion
as Bill Richards
- 1941 The Shepherd of the Hills
as Daniel Howitt
- 1940 They Knew What They Wanted
as The Doctor
- 1940 Beyond Tomorrow
as George Vale Melton
- 1940 Outside the Three-Mile Limit
as Captain Bailey
- 1939 My Son Is Guilty
as Police Officer Tim Kerry
- 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as President of the Senate
- 1939 Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
- 1939 Inside Information
as Captain Bill Dugan
- 1939 Street of Missing Men
as Charles Putnam
- 1939 Code of the Streets
as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
- 1939 Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
as P.G. Delano
- 1938 The Law West of Tombstone
as William 'Bill' Barker
- 1938 King of Alcatraz
as Captain Glennan
- 1938 Gateway
as Commissioner Nelson
- 1938 Sky Giant
as Col. Cornelius Stockton
- 1938 You and Me
as Mr. Morris
- 1938 Port of Missing Girls
as Captain Josiah Storm
- 1937 Danger Patrol
as Sam "Easy" Street
- 1937 Annapolis Salute
as Chief Martin
- 1937 Souls at Sea
as Captain of the William Brown
- 1937 Born Reckless
as Dad Martin
- 1937 Border Cafe
as Tex Stevens
- 1937 Kid Galahad
as Silver Jackson
- 1937 Racing Lady
as Tom Martin
- 1936 Aces Wild
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
- 1936 The Accusing Finger
as Sen. Nash
- 1936 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Phil Yonne
- 1936 The Last Outlaw
as Dean Payton
- 1936 Little Miss Nobody
as John Russell
- 1936 Sutter's Gold
as Kit Carson
- 1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Commandant
- 1936 Ghost Town
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
- 1935 The Last of the Clintons
as Trigger Carson
- 1935 Wild Mustang
as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
- 1935 Barbary Coast
as Jed Slocum
- 1935 Powdersmoke Range
as Tucson Smith
- 1935 Rustler's Paradise
as Cheyenne Kincaid
- 1935 Wagon Trail
as Sheriff Clay Hartley
- 1933 Man of the Forest
as Jim Gayner
- 1933 Sunset Pass
as John Hesbitt
- 1933 Buffalo Stampede
as Clark Sprague
- 1933 The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1932 The Devil Horse
as Bob Norton / Roberts
- 1932 The Night Rider
as John Brown / Jim Blake
- 1932 The Last of the Mohicans
as Hawkeye
- 1932 Border Devils
as Jim Gray
- 1932 The Movie Album
as (archive footage)
- 1932 Law and Order
as Ed Brandt
- 1932 Without Honor
as Pete Marlan
- 1931 Cavalier of the West
as Captain John Allister
- 1931 Bad Company
as McBaine
- 1931 The Vanishing Legion
as 'Happy' Cardigan
- 1931 Trader Horn
as Aloysius "Trader" Horn
- 1928 The Border Patrol
as Bill Storm
- 1928 Burning Bridges
as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
- 1928 The Trail of '98
as Jack Locasto
- 1927 Slide, Kelly, Slide
as Tom Munson
- 1927 A Little Journey
as Alexander Smith
- 1926 Satan Town
as Bill Scott
- 1926 The Frontier Trail
as Jim Cardigan
- 1926 The Seventh Bandit
as David Scanlon
- 1926 Driftin' Thru
as Daniel Brown
- 1925 The Man from Red Gulch
as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
- 1925 The Prairie Pirate
as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
- 1925 The Bad Lands
as Patrick Angus O'Toole
- 1925 The Texas Trail
as Pete Grainger
- 1925 Beyond the Border
as Bob Smith
- 1925 Silent Sanderson
as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
- 1925 Soft Shoes
as Pat Halahan
- 1924 The Flaming Forties
as Bill Jones
- 1924 Roaring Rails
as Big Bill Benson
- 1924 Tiger Thompson
as Tiger Thompson
- 1924 The Lightning Rider
as Phlip Morgan
- 1924 The Night Hawk
as 'The Hawk'
- 1923 The Miracle Baby
as Neil Allison
- 1923 Desert Driven
as Bob
- 1923 Crashin' Thru
as Blake
- 1923 Canyon of the Fools
as Bob
- 1922 Good Men and True
as J. Wesley Pringle
- 1922 The Kickback
as White Horse Harry
- 1922 Man to Man
as Steve Packard
- 1921 The Fox
as Ol' Santa Fe
- 1921 Desperate Trails
as Bart Carson
- 1921 The Wallop
as John Wesley Pringle
- 1921 The Freeze-Out
as Ohio, the Stranger
- 1921 Hearts Up
as David Brent
- 1920 West Is West
as Dick Rainboldt
- 1920 Sundown Slim
as Sundown Slim
- 1920 Blue Streak McCoy
as Job McCoy
- 1920 'If Only' Jim
as Jim Golden
- 1920 Human Stuff
as James 'Jim' Pierce
- 1920 Bullet Proof
as Pierre Winton
- 1920 Overland Red
as Overland Red
- 1919 Marked Men
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1919 A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1919 Rider of the Law
as Jim Kyneton
- 1919 The Ace of the Saddle
as Cheyenne Harry Henderson
- 1919 The Outcasts of Poker Flat
as Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
- 1919 Riders of Vengeance
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1919 Bare Fists
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1919 A Fight For Love
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1919 Roped
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1918 Three Mounted Men
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1918 A Woman's Fool
as Lin McLean
- 1918 Hell Bent
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1918 The Scarlet Drop
as Harry Ridge
- 1918 Thieves' Gold
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1918 Wild Women
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1918 The Phantom Riders
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 Bucking Broadway
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 A Marked Man
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Secret Man
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 Straight Shooting
as "Cheyenne" Harry
- 1917 Cheyenne's Pal
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Soul Herder
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 Six-Shooter Justice
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Wrong Man
as Jack Wilson
- 1917 The Golden Bullet
as Jack
- 1917 The Mysterious Outlaw
as Buck Lessen
- 1917 The Almost Good Man
as Dick Glenning
- 1917 A 44-Calibre Mystery
as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Honor of an Outlaw
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 Hair-Trigger Burke
as Hair Trigger Burke
- 1917 The Fighting Gringo
as William 'Red' Saunders
- 1917 Goin' Straight
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Drifter
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Outlaw and the Lady
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 The Bad Man of Cheyenne
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1917 Blood Money
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1916 Guilty
as Ramon Valentine
- 1916 The Conspiracy
as Dick Olney
- 1916 Behind the Lines
as Dr. Ralph Hamlin
- 1916 The Devil's Own
as Shifty
- 1916 A Woman's Eyes
as Tom Horn
- 1916 Love's Lariat
as Sky High
- 1916 For the Love of a Girl
as Black La Rue
- 1916 The Committee on Credentials
as Ballaret Bill
- 1916 The Jackals of a Great City
as Tom Wayne
- 1916 The Three Godfathers
as Bob Sangster
- 1916 The Wedding Guest
as The Squarest Sheriff Alive
- 1916 The Passing of Hell's Crown
as Blaze
- 1916 The Night Riders
as The Apache Kid
- 1916 The Harbor Transportation Trust
as Tom Larnigan
- 1916 A Knight of the Range
as Cheyenne Harry
- 1916 The Insurance Swindlers
as Tom Larnigan
- 1916 Secret Love
as Fergus Derrick
- 1916 Old King Coal
as Tom Larnigan
- 1916 America Saved from War
as Tom Larnigan
- 1916 The Railroad Monopoly
as Tom Larnigan
- 1916 Grinding Life Down
as Tom Larnigan
- 1916 The Power of the People
as Tom Larnigan
- 1915 Graft
as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
- 1915 Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
as Miles Rand
- 1915 Just Jim
as Jim
- 1915 As It Happened
as The New Foreman
- 1915 Old Offenders
as Norris
- 1915 Her Convert
as The Converted Cracksman
- 1915 The Way Out
as The Bandit
- 1915 Her Dormant Love
as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
- 1915 Truth Stranger Than Fiction
as Crook
- 1915 The Canceled Mortgage
as 1st Road Agent
- 1915 A Day's Adventure
as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
- 1915 A Double Winning
as 2nd Sportsman
- 1915 The Gambler's I.O.U.
as Dave Dawson
- 1915 The Miser's Legacy
as Jackson - The Crook
- 1915 The Sheriff's Dilemma
as The Sheriff
- 1915 The Love Transcendent
as The Prospector
- 1915 His Desperate Deed
as Burleigh
- 1915 The Heart of a Bandit
as Texas Pete - the Bandit
- 1914 McVeagh of the South Seas
as Cyril Bruce McVeagh
- 1914 The Master Cracksman
as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
- 1914 Brute Force
as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
- 1914 Her Hand
as Ivan
- 1914 Judith of Bethulia
as Assyrian Traitor
- 1914
- 1914 A Nest Unfeathered
as The Foreman
- 1914 His Fireman's Conscience
as Engineer Daily
- 1914
- 1914 Concentration
as First Son
- 1913 The Abandoned Well
as The Adopted Son
- 1913
- 1913 All for Science
as The Young Man
- 1913 The Detective's Stratagem
as Keene, the Detective
+ 64 more credits
Behind the camera (25)
- 1948 3 Godfathers
In Memory Of
- 1925 Soft Shoes
Story
- 1922 The Kickback
Story
- 1921 The Fox
Story
- 1921 Hearts Up
Story
- 1920 Human Stuff
Scenario Writer
- 1919 A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Story
- 1919 Riders of Vengeance
Story
- 1919 The Gun Packer
Story
- 1918 Hell Bent
Story, Writer
- 1918 Wild Women
Producer
- 1918 The Phantom Riders
Producer
- 1917 Bucking Broadway
Producer
- 1917 Goin' Straight
Story
- 1917 The Outlaw and the Lady
Story
- 1917 The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Story
- 1917 Blood Money
Story
- 1916 Love's Lariat
Director
- 1916 For the Love of a Girl
Director
- 1916 Stampede in the Night
Story
- 1916 A Knight of the Range
Scenario Writer
- 1914 McVeagh of the South Seas
Story, Director
- 1914 The Master Cracksman
Director, Writer
- 1913 Under the Shadow of the Law
Screenplay, Story
- 1913 A Gambler's Honor
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1972
- 1937