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Harry Carey

Harry Carey

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."

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

295

Gender

Male

Birthday

1878-01-16

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.

Known For

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Red River Angel and the Badman Beyond Tomorrow Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs Duel in the Sun Desperate Trails Outside the Three-Mile Limit The Freeze-Out The Great Moment Bullet Proof The Musketeers of Pig Alley Among the Living The Shepherd of the Hills Souls at Sea The Committee on Credentials The Spoilers The Fox Air Force You and Me The Bad Lands Kid Galahad The Sheriff's Baby Trader Horn Pirate Gold Bill Sharkey's Last Game Gentleman Joe Two Daughters of Eve In the Aisles of the Wild Sundown A Cry for Help The Left-Handed Man An Adventure in the Autumn Woods A Misappropriated Turkey Brothers A Chance Deception Love in an Apartment Hotel The Wrong Bottle The Hero of Little Italy A Frightful Blunder A Modest Hero Madonna of the Storm If We Only Knew The Tenderfoot's Money Heredity Brutality My Hero Near To Earth The Stolen Loaf A Dangerous Foe The Ranchero's Revenge Red Hicks Defies the World The Well The Switchtower In Diplomatic Circles A Gamble with Death The Sorrowful Shore The Enemy's Baby A Gambler's Honor The Mirror The Vengeance of Galora When Love Forgives The Prisoner of Shark Island Under the Shadow of the Law I Was Meant for You The Work Habit The Crook and the Girl Brute Force The Stolen Treaty The Law and His Son The Van Nostrand Tiara The Stopped Clock The Detective's Stratagem All for Science For Her Government The Abandoned Well Concentration They Knew What They Wanted Without Honor The Sea of Grass Bucking Broadway An Unseen Enemy King of Alcatraz The Heart of a Bandit His Desperate Deed Waifs His Fireman's Conscience A Nest Unfeathered Her Father's Silent Partner Judith of Bethulia Her Hand The Master Cracksman Just Jim The Love Transcendent The Sheriff's Dilemma The Miser's Legacy The Gambler's I.O.U. A Double Winning A Day's Adventure The Canceled Mortgage Truth Stranger Than Fiction Her Dormant Love The Way Out Her Convert Old Offenders As It Happened Graft The Power of the People Grinding Life Down The Railroad Monopoly America Saved from War Old King Coal The Insurance Swindlers A Knight of the Range The Harbor Transportation Trust Law and Order The Passing of Hell's Crown The Wedding Guest The Jackals of a Great City For the Love of a Girl A Woman's Eyes The Devil's Own The Conspiracy Guilty Blood Money Sky Giant Hollywood: The Dream Factory The Bad Man of Cheyenne The Outlaw and the Lady The Drifter Goin' Straight Hair-Trigger Burke The Honor of an Outlaw A 44-Calibre Mystery The Almost Good Man Six-Shooter Justice The Mysterious Outlaw The Golden Bullet Human Stuff The Wrong Man Inside Information The Accusing Finger Burning Bridges Satan Town The Frontier Trail The Seventh Bandit Driftin' Thru The Man from Red Gulch The Texas Trail Silent Sanderson 'If Only' Jim Good Men and True Crashin' Thru Desert Driven The Miracle Baby Tiger Thompson Overland Red Legends of the West The Vanishing Legion The Last of the Mohicans Border Devils The Law West of Tombstone Ghost Town Buffalo Stampede The Night Rider The Devil Horse The Painted Lady Man of the Forest Wagon Trail So Near, Yet So Far The Prairie Pirate Friends The Burglar’s Dilemma Border Cafe Racing Lady The Last of the Clintons Annapolis Salute Parachute Battalion Born Reckless Burn 'Em Up O'Connor Little Miss Nobody Happy Land Port of Missing Girls Cavalier of the West A Gun Fightin' Gentleman Aces Wild Sunset Pass Straight Shooting Danger Patrol Barbary Coast The Last Outlaw Land of Liberty So Dear to My Heart Gateway Hell Bent The Three Godfathers West Is West The Kickback Sutter's Gold The Night Hawk Wild Mustang Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Roaring Rails Black and White The Trail of '98 Powdersmoke Range Street of Missing Men My Son Is Guilty Code of the Streets China's Little Devils The Strong Man's Burden Slide, Kelly, Slide The Soul Herder Cheyenne's Pal The Secret Man A Marked Man The Phantom Riders Wild Women Thieves' Gold The Scarlet Drop A Woman's Fool Three Mounted Men Roped McVeagh of the South Seas A Little Journey A Fight For Love Bare Fists Riders of Vengeance Beyond the Border Broken Ways The Unwelcome Guest The Informer The One She Loved A Feud in the Kentucky Hills The Telephone Girl and the Lady Soft Shoes The Flaming Forties Marked Men The Film Parade The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Ace of the Saddle Rider of the Law Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings Bad Company Oil and Water Behind the Lines Love's Lariat The Border Patrol Canyon of the Fools Man to Man Blue Streak McCoy The Lightning Rider Olaf—An Atom Film Fun The Fighting Gringo Directed by John Ford The Stolen Bride Sundown Slim Rustler's Paradise Secret Love A Tender-Hearted Crook The Wallop Hearts Up Lest We Forget The Night Riders The Movie Album
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