Harry Carey
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: January 15, 1878
Day of Death: September 21, 1947 (70 years old)
Place of Birth: 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."
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Actor President of the Senate
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Actor P.G. Delano
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Actor Charles Putnam
Street of Missing Men
Actor Police Officer Tim Kerry
My Son is Guilty
Actor Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
Code of the Streets
Actor Captain Bill Dugan
Inside Information
Actor (archive footage)
Land of Liberty
1938
1937
1936
1935
1933
1932
1931
1928
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1925
Actor Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
The Prairie Pirate
Actor Bob Smith
Beyond the Border
Actor Pat Halahan
Soft Shoes
Actor Patrick Angus O'Toole
The Bad Lands
Actor Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
The Man from Red Gulch
Actor Pete Grainger
The Texas Trail
Actor Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
Silent Sanderson
Story
Soft Shoes
1924
1923
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1920
1919
Actor Cheyenne Harry
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Roped
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Bare Fists
Actor Cheyenne Harry
A Fight For Love
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Riders of Vengeance
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Marked Men
Actor Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Actor Jim Kyneton
Rider of the Law
Actor Cheyenne Harry Henderson
The Ace of the Saddle
Story
The Gun Packer
Story
Riders of Vengeance
Story
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
1918
1917
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Bucking Broadway
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Straight Shooting
Actor Cheyenne Harry
The Soul Herder
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne's Pal
Actor Cheyenne Harry
A Marked Man
Actor Cheyenne Harry
The Secret Man
Actor William 'Red' Saunders
The Fighting Gringo
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Blood Money
Actor Cheyenne Harry
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Actor Cheyenne Harry
The Outlaw and the Lady
Actor Cheyenne Harry
The Drifter
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Goin' Straight
Actor Hair Trigger Burke
Hair-Trigger Burke
Actor Cheyenne Harry
The Honor of an Outlaw
Actor Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Actor Dick Glenning
The Almost Good Man
Actor Cheyenne Harry
Six-Shooter Justice
Actor Buck Lessen
The Mysterious Outlaw
Actor Jack
The Golden Bullet
Actor Jack Wilson
The Wrong Man
Producer
Bucking Broadway
Story
Blood Money
Story
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Story
The Outlaw and the Lady
Story
Goin' Straight
1916
Actor Bob Sangster
The Three Godfathers
Actor Sky High
Love's Lariat
Actor Dr. Ralph Hamlin
Behind the Lines
Actor Fergus Derrick
Secret Love
Actor Ballaret Bill
The Committee on Credentials
Actor Tom Larnigan
The Power of the People
Actor Tom Larnigan
Grinding Life Down
Actor Tom Larnigan
The Railroad Monopoly
Actor Tom Larnigan
America Saved from War
Actor Tom Larnigan
Old King Coal
Actor Tom Larnigan
The Insurance Swindlers
Actor Cheyenne Harry
A Knight of the Range
Actor Tom Larnigan
The Harbor Transportation Trust
Actor Blaze
The Passing of Hell's Crown
Actor The Squarest Sheriff Alive
The Wedding Guest
Actor Tom Wayne
The Jackals of a Great City
Actor Black La Rue
For the Love of a Girl
Actor Tom Horn
A Woman's Eyes
Actor Shifty
The Devil's Own
Actor Dick Olney
The Conspiracy
Actor Ramon Valentine
Guilty
Director
Love's Lariat
Scenario Writer
A Knight of the Range
Director
For the Love of a Girl
Story
Stampede in the Night
1915
Actor Miles Rand
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Actor Jim
Just Jim
Actor Texas Pete - the Bandit
The Heart of a Bandit
Actor Burleigh
His Desperate Deed
Actor The Prospector
The Love Transcendent
Actor The Sheriff
The Sheriff's Dilemma
Actor Jackson - The Crook
The Miser's Legacy
Actor Dave Dawson
The Gambler's I.O.U.
Actor 2nd Sportsman
A Double Winning
Actor Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
A Day's Adventure
Actor 1st Road Agent
The Canceled Mortgage
Actor Crook
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Actor Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
Her Dormant Love
Actor The Bandit
The Way Out
Actor The Converted Cracksman
Her Convert
Actor Norris
Old Offenders
Actor The New Foreman
As It Happened
Actor Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
Graft
1914
Actor Cyril Bruce McVeagh
McVeagh of the South Seas
Actor In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
Brute Force
Actor First Son
Concentration
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Waifs
Actor Engineer Daily
His Fireman's Conscience
Actor The Foreman
A Nest Unfeathered
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Her Father's Silent Partner
Actor Assyrian Traitor
Judith of Bethulia
Actor Ivan
Her Hand
Actor Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
The Master Cracksman
Director
McVeagh of the South Seas
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McVeagh of the South Seas
Director
The Master Cracksman
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The Master Cracksman
1913
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Black and White
Actor Bob - the Younger Brother
The Strong Man's Burden
Actor The Sheriff
Broken Ways
Actor The Sheriff
The Unwelcome Guest
Actor The Thief
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Actor The Stage Manager / At Dinner
Oil and Water
Actor Olaf, an Atom
Olaf—An Atom
Actor The Husband
The Stolen Bride
Actor The Thief
A Tender-Hearted Crook
Actor Second Bandit
The Sheriff's Baby
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Pirate Gold
Actor The Left-Handed Thief
The Left-Handed Man
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A Modest Hero
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Madonna of the Storm
Actor Third Thief
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Actor The Bartender
A Misappropriated Turkey
Actor The Mother's Favorite Son
Brothers
Actor Raffles
A Chance Deception
Actor The Thief
Love in an Apartment Hotel
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The Wrong Bottle
Actor Tony
The Hero of Little Italy
Actor The Superintendent
A Frightful Blunder
Actor The Sailor
If We Only Knew
Actor The Gambler
The Tenderfoot's Money
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Near To Earth
Actor The Butler
The Stolen Loaf
Actor The 'Bull'
A Dangerous Foe
Actor The Schemer
The Ranchero's Revenge
Actor In Crowd (uncredited)
Red Hicks Defies the World
Actor Giuseppe, the Farmhand
The Well
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The Switchtower
Actor The Butler
In Diplomatic Circles
Actor The Cowpuncher
A Gamble with Death
Actor The Widowed Father
The Sorrowful Shore
Actor Miller
The Enemy's Baby
Actor The Gambler
A Gambler's Honor
Actor First Tramp
The Mirror
Actor A Prospector
The Vengeance of Galora
Actor Second Criminal
When Love Forgives
Actor The Convict
Under the Shadow of the Law
Actor Luke
I Was Meant for You
Actor The Son-in-Law
The Work Habit
Actor The Crook
The Crook and the Girl
Actor The Detective
The Stolen Treaty
Actor Manning
The Law and His Son
Actor Society Detective
The Van Nostrand Tiara
Actor The Detective
The Stopped Clock
Actor Keene, the Detective
The Detective's Stratagem
Actor The Young Man
All for Science
Actor
For Her Government
Actor The Adopted Son
The Abandoned Well
Writer
A Gambler's Honor
Screenplay
Under the Shadow of the Law
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Under the Shadow of the Law
1912
Actor Snapper's Sidekick
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Actor The Safecracker
An Unseen Enemy
Actor A Thief
So Near, Yet So Far
Actor Bob Kyne - the Prospector
Friends
Actor Older Crook
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Actor At Ice Cream Festival
The Painted Lady
Actor The Confederate Corporal
The Informer
Actor The Neighbor's Friend
The One She Loved
Actor 2nd Clan Member
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
Actor In Audience
Two Daughters of Eve
Actor Bob Cole
In the Aisles of the Wild
Actor The Thief
A Cry for Help
Actor The White Renegade Father
Heredity
Actor At Theatre
Brutality
Actor Indian
My Hero