Harry Carey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1878-01-16
Day of Death
1947-09-21 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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."
Known For
Acting
(2000)
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
as (archive footage)
(1992)
Legends of the West
as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
(1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1971)
Directed by John Ford
as (archive footage)
(1955)
Film Fun
as (archive footage)
(1948)
Red River
as Mr. Melville
(1948)
So Dear to My Heart
as Head Judge at County Fair
(1947)
Angel and the Badman
as Marshal Wistful McClintock
(1947)
The Sea of Grass
as Doc J. Reid
(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)
Air Force
as Crew Chief
(1943)
Happy Land
as Edward "Gramp" Marsh
(1942)
The Spoilers
as Dextry
(1941)
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Daniel Howitt
(1941)
Sundown
as Dewey
(1941)
Among the Living
as Dr. Ben Saunders
(1941)
Parachute Battalion
as Bill Richards
(1940)
Beyond Tomorrow
as George Vale Melton
(1940)
They Knew What They Wanted
as The Doctor
(1940)
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
as Captain Bailey
(1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as President of the Senate
(1939)
My Son Is Guilty
as Police Officer Tim Kerry
(1939)
Code of the Streets
as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
(1939)
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
as P.G. Delano
(1939)
Street of Missing Men
as Charles Putnam
(1939)
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
(1939)
Inside Information
as Captain Bill Dugan
(1938)
You and Me
as Mr. Morris
(1938)
Gateway
as Commissioner Nelson
(1938)
King of Alcatraz
as Captain Glennan
(1938)
The Law West of Tombstone
as William 'Bill' Barker
(1938)
Sky Giant
as Col. Cornelius Stockton
(1938)
Port of Missing Girls
as Captain Josiah Storm
(1937)
Kid Galahad
as Silver Jackson
(1937)
Border Cafe
as Tex Stevens
(1937)
Danger Patrol
as Sam "Easy" Street
(1937)
Souls at Sea
as Captain of the William Brown
(1937)
Born Reckless
as Dad Martin
(1937)
Lest We Forget
as Himself
(1937)
Annapolis Salute
as Chief Martin
(1937)
Racing Lady
as Tom Martin
(1936)
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Commandant
(1936)
Aces Wild
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
(1936)
Sutter's Gold
as Kit Carson
(1936)
The Accusing Finger
as Sen. Nash
(1936)
Ghost Town
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
(1936)
Little Miss Nobody
as John Russell
(1936)
The Last Outlaw
as Dean Payton
(1936)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Phil Yonne
(1935)
Barbary Coast
as Jed Slocum
(1935)
Powdersmoke Range
as Tucson Smith
(1935)
Wagon Trail
as Sheriff Clay Hartley
(1935)
The Last of the Clintons
as Trigger Carson
(1935)
Wild Mustang
as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
(1935)
Rustler's Paradise
as Cheyenne Kincaid
(1933)
Buffalo Stampede
as Clark Sprague
(1933)
Man of the Forest
as Jim Gayner
(1933)
Sunset Pass
as John Hesbitt
(1933)
The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1932)
Without Honors
as Pete Marlan
(1932)
The Last of the Mohicans
as Hawkeye
(1932)
Law and Order
as Ed Brandt
(1932)
The Devil Horse
as Bob Norton / Roberts
(1932)
The Night Rider
as John Brown / Jim Blake
(1932)
Border Devils
as Jim Gray
(1931)
Trader Horn
as Aloysius "Trader" Horn
(1931)
Bad Company
as McBaine
(1931)
Cavalier of the West
as Captain John Allister
(1931)
The Vanishing Legion
as 'Happy' Cardigan
(1928)
Burning Bridges
as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
(1928)
The Trail of '98
as Jack Locasto
(1928)
The Border Patrol
as Bill Storm
(1927)
A Little Journey
as Alexander Smith
(1927)
Slide, Kelly, Slide
as Tom Munson
(1926)
The Seventh Bandit
as David Scanlon
(1926)
The Frontier Trail
as Jim Cardigan
(1926)
Satan Town
as Bill Scott
(1926)
Driftin' Thru
as Daniel Brown
(1925)
The Man from Red Gulch
as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
(1925)
The Bad Lands
as Patrick Angus O'Toole
(1925)
The Texas Trail
as Pete Grainger
(1925)
Silent Sanderson
as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
(1925)
Beyond the Border
as Bob Smith
(1925)
Soft Shoes
as Pat Halahan
(1925)
The Prairie Pirate
as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
(1924)
Roaring Rails
as Big Bill Benson
(1924)
Tiger Thompson
as Tiger Thompson
(1924)
The Flaming Forties
as Bill Jones
(1924)
The Lightning Rider
as Phlip Morgan
(1924)
The Night Hawk
as 'The Hawk'
(1923)
Desert Driven
as Bob
(1923)
The Miracle Baby
as Neil Allison
(1923)
Crashin' Thru
as Blake
(1923)
Canyon of the Fools
as Bob
(1922)
Good Men and True
as J. Wesley Pringle
(1922)
Man to Man
as Steve Packard
(1922)
The Kickback
as White Horse Harry
(1921)
The Fox
as Ol' Santa Fe
(1921)
The Freeze-Out
as Ohio, the Stranger
(1921)
The Wallop
as John Wesley Pringle
(1921)
Desperate Trails
as Bart Carson
(1921)
Hearts Up
as David Brent
(1920)
West Is West
as Dick Rainboldt
(1920)
Blue Streak McCoy
as Job McCoy
(1920)
'If Only' Jim
as Jim Golden
(1920)
Bullet Proof
as Pierre Winton
(1920)
Overland Red
as Overland Red
(1920)
Sundown Slim
as Sundown Slim
(1920)
Human Stuff
as James 'Jim' Pierce
(1919)
Marked Men
as Cheyenne Harry
(1919)
Rider of the Law
as Jim Kyneton
(1919)
Bare Fists
as Cheyenne Harry
(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)
Roped
as Cheyenne Harry
(1919)
A Fight For Love
as Cheyenne Harry
(1919)
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
as Cheyenne Harry
(1918)
Hell Bent
as Cheyenne Harry
(1918)
The Scarlet Drop
as Harry Ridge
(1918)
Wild Women
as Cheyenne Harry
(1918)
A Woman's Fool
as Lin McLean
(1918)
Three Mounted Men
as Cheyenne Harry
(1918)
The Phantom Riders
as Cheyenne Harry
(1918)
Thieves' Gold
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
Bucking Broadway
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
Six-Shooter Justice
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
Straight Shooting
as "Cheyenne" Harry
(1917)
The Soul Herder
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
A Marked Man
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
Hair-Trigger Burke
as Hair Trigger Burke
(1917)
The Golden Bullet
as Jack
(1917)
The Almost Good Man
as Dick Glenning
(1917)
Cheyenne's Pal
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Honor of an Outlaw
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Secret Man
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Fighting Gringo
as William 'Red' Saunders
(1917)
The Outlaw and the Lady
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Mysterious Outlaw
as Buck Lessen
(1917)
Goin' Straight
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Wrong Man
as Jack Wilson
(1917)
Blood Money
as Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
A 44-Calibre Mystery
as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
(1917)
The Drifter
as Cheyenne Harry
(1916)
The Three Godfathers
as Bob Sangster
(1916)
Behind the Lines
as Dr. Ralph Hamlin
(1916)
The Committee on Credentials
as Ballaret Bill
(1916)
Love's Lariat
as Sky High
(1916)
Secret Love
as Fergus Derrick
(1916)
The Jackals of a Great City
as Tom Wayne
(1916)
A Knight of the Range
as Cheyenne Harry
(1916)
The Passing of Hell's Crown
as Blaze
(1916)
The Wedding Guest
as The Squarest Sheriff Alive
(1916)
The Insurance Swindlers
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
The Devil's Own
as Shifty
(1916)
The Harbor Transportation Trust
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
A Woman's Eyes
as Tom Horn
(1916)
America Saved from War
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
Guilty
as Ramon Valentine
(1916)
For the Love of a Girl
as Black La Rue
(1916)
Old King Coal
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
Grinding Life Down
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
The Power of the People
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
The Railroad Monopoly
as Tom Larnigan
(1916)
The Conspiracy
as Dick Olney
(1915)
Graft
as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
(1915)
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
as Miles Rand
(1915)
Her Dormant Love
as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
(1915)
The Heart of a Bandit
as Texas Pete - the Bandit
(1915)
Just Jim
as Jim
(1915)
As It Happened
as The New Foreman
(1915)
Old Offenders
as Norris
(1915)
The Canceled Mortgage
as 1st Road Agent
(1915)
Her Convert
as The Converted Cracksman
(1915)
A Day's Adventure
as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
(1915)
The Miser's Legacy
as Jackson - The Crook
(1915)
The Sheriff's Dilemma
as The Sheriff
(1915)
His Desperate Deed
as Burleigh
(1915)
The Way Out
as The Bandit
(1915)
The Gambler's I.O.U.
as Dave Dawson
(1915)
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
as Crook
(1915)
A Double Winning
as 2nd Sportsman
(1915)
The Love Transcendent
as The Prospector
(1914)
Judith of Bethulia
as Assyrian Traitor
(1914)
(1914)
Brute Force
as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
(1914)
The Master Cracksman
as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
(1914)
Concentration
as First Son
(1914)
His Fireman's Conscience
as Engineer Daily
(1914)
A Nest Unfeathered
as The Foreman
(1914)
(1914)
McVeagh of the South Seas
as Cyril Bruce McVeagh
(1914)
Her Hand
as Ivan
(1913)
In Diplomatic Circles
as The Butler
(1913)
The Sheriff's Baby
as Second Bandit
(1913)
(1913)
The Unwelcome Guest
as The Sheriff
(1913)
The Hero of Little Italy
as Tony
(1913)
The Stolen Bride
as The Husband
(1913)
The Sorrowful Shore
as The Widowed Father
(1913)
A Misappropriated Turkey
as The Bartender
(1913)
(1913)
(1913)
The Crook and the Girl
as The Crook
(1913)
Broken Ways
as The Sheriff
(1913)
Under the Shadow of the Law
as The Convict
(1913)
(1913)
Red Hicks Defies the World
as In Crowd (uncredited)
(1913)
The Well
as Giuseppe, the Farmhand
(1913)
(1913)
The Strong Man's Burden
as Bob - the Younger Brother
(1913)
The Stolen Treaty
as The Detective
(1913)
The Ranchero's Revenge
as The Schemer
(1913)
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
as Third Thief
(1913)
A Tender-Hearted Crook
as The Thief
(1913)
(1913)
The Abandoned Well
as The Adopted Son
(1913)
Oil and Water
as The Stage Manager / At Dinner
(1913)
The Mirror
as First Tramp
(1913)
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
as The Thief
(1913)
(1913)
A Frightful Blunder
as The Superintendent
(1913)
The Enemy's Baby
as Miller
(1913)
Love in an Apartment Hotel
as The Thief
(1913)
The Stolen Loaf
as The Butler
(1913)
The Tenderfoot's Money
as The Gambler
(1913)
The Stopped Clock
as The Detective
(1913)
The Left-Handed Man
as The Left-Handed Thief
(1913)
All for Science
as The Young Man
(1913)
A Gambler's Honor
as The Gambler
(1913)
The Vengeance of Galora
as A Prospector
(1913)
The Van Nostrand Tiara
as Society Detective
(1913)
A Chance Deception
as Raffles
(1913)
A Gamble with Death
as The Cowpuncher
(1913)
Olaf—An Atom
as Olaf, an Atom
(1913)
The Law and His Son
as Manning
(1913)
(1913)
The Detective's Stratagem
as Keene, the Detective
(1913)
If We Only Knew
as The Sailor
(1913)
I Was Meant for You
as Luke
(1913)
Brothers
as The Mother's Favorite Son
(1913)
A Dangerous Foe
as The 'Bull'
(1913)
When Love Forgives
as Second Criminal
(1913)
The Work Habit
as The Son-in-Law
(1912)
An Unseen Enemy
as The Safecracker
(1912)
So Near, Yet So Far
as A Thief
(1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as Snapper's Sidekick
(1912)
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
as 2nd Clan Member
(1912)
Heredity
as The White Renegade Father
(1912)
The Informer
as The Confederate Corporal
(1912)
The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Older Crook
(1912)
A Cry for Help
as The Thief
(1912)
Friends
as Bob Kyne - the Prospector
(1912)
Brutality
as At Theatre
(1912)
My Hero
as Indian
(1912)
The One She Loved
as The Neighbor's Friend
(1912)
The Painted Lady
as At Ice Cream Festival
(1912)
In the Aisles of the Wild
as Bob Cole
(1912)
Two Daughters of Eve
as In Audience
(1910)
(1910)
Crew
(1948)
3 Godfathers
In Memory Of
(1925)
Soft Shoes
Story
(1922)
The Kickback
Story
(1921)
Hearts Up
Story
(1921)
The Fox
Story
(1920)
Human Stuff
Scenario Writer
(1919)
The Gun Packer
Story
(1919)
Riders of Vengeance
Story
(1919)
(1918)
The Phantom Riders
Producer
(1918)
Wild Women
Producer
(1918)
Hell Bent
Story
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
Goin' Straight
Story
(1917)
Blood Money
Story
(1917)
Bucking Broadway
Producer
(1916)
(1916)
A Knight of the Range
Scenario Writer
(1916)
For the Love of a Girl
Director
(1916)
Love's Lariat
Director
(1914)
McVeagh of the South Seas
Story, Director
(1914)
The Master Cracksman
Writer, Director
(1913)
A Gambler's Honor
Writer
(1913)
Under the Shadow of the Law
Screenplay, Story