Harry Carey
Acting
🎂 1878-01-16
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."
Cast credits(265)
Mr. Melville
1948
President of the Senate
1939
Lem Smoot
1946
Doc J. Reid
1947
Marshal Wistful McClintock
1947
Tex Stevens
1937
Phil Yonne
1936
'Happy' Cardigan
1931
Captain of the William Brown
1937
Daniel Howitt
1941
Self (archive footage)
1972
Crew Chief
1943
Dextry
1942
Dad Martin
1937
Commissioner Nelson
1938
Professor John C. Warren
1944
Himself
1937
(archive footage)
2000
Silver Jackson
1937
Jed Slocum
1935
(archive footage)
1971
Dean Payton
1936
Mr. Morris
1938
George Vale Melton
1940
Sen. Nash
1936
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
1931
Dr. Ben Saunders
1941
Pete Marlan
1932
Head Judge at County Fair
1948
Clark Sprague
1933
Bob Norton / Roberts
1932
Sam "Easy" Street
1937
P.G. Delano
1939
Commandant
1936
1913
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
1915
Edward "Gramp" Marsh
1943
1913
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
1939
Phlip Morgan
1924
Captain Bailey
1940
Jack Locasto
1928
William 'Bill' Barker
1938
Snapper's Sidekick
1912
John Hesbitt
1933
The Neighbor's Friend
1912
1914
A Thief
1912
Chief Martin
1937
Jim Gayner
1933
Bill Richards
1941
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
1992
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Dewey
1941
Kit Carson
1936
The Confederate Corporal
1912
Captain Bill Dugan
1939
Tucson Smith
1935
Olaf, an Atom
1913
Police Officer Tim Kerry
1939
Job McCoy
1920
2nd Clan Member
1912
Second Bandit
1913
The Doctor
1940
Big Bill Benson
1924
Captain John Allister
1931
White Horse Harry
1922
Doc Temple
1945
The Sheriff
1913
John Russell
1936
Trigger Carson
1935
The Butler
1913
(archive footage)
1955
(archive footage)
1939
The Thief
1913
Bill Scott
1926
Bob Cole
1912
Older Crook
1912
In Audience
1912
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
1925
Charles Putnam
1939
Dick Rainboldt
1920
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
1913
Tom Munson
1927
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Captain Glennan
1938
The Sailor
1913
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
1912
Indian
1912
John Brown / Jim Blake
1932
McBaine
1931
Assyrian Traitor
1914
Pat Halahan
1925
The Gambler
1913
The Sheriff
1913
Hawkeye
1932
Bob Smith
1925
Tom Martin
1937
At Theatre
1912
Sheriff Clay Hartley
1935
Jim Gray
1932
The Gambler
1913
Col. Cornelius Stockton
1938
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
1935
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Neil Allison
1923
Ed Brandt
1932
Buck Lessen
1917
First Tramp
1913
Lin McLean
1918
The Convict
1913
Jim Golden
1920
1913
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936
Pete Grainger
1925
The Thief
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1917
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Bob
1923
"Cheyenne" Harry
1917
Cheyenne Harry
1918
The Safecracker
1912
Sky High
1916
Cheyenne Harry
1916
Pierre Winton
1920
Bob Sangster
1916
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
1925
David Brent
1921
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
1919
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936
Cheyenne Harry
1917
The Thief
1913
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
1914
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Bill Jones
1924
At Ice Cream Festival
1912
Ol' Santa Fe
1921
The Thief
1912
Patrick Angus O'Toole
1925
Overland Red
1920
The White Renegade Father
1912
The New Foreman
1915
Jim Cardigan
1926
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Manning
1913
Sundown Slim
1920
Bill Storm
1928
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
1925
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
1915
Giuseppe, the Farmhand
1913
The Husband
1913
Tiger Thompson
1924
Harry Ridge
1918
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
1916
Society Detective
1913
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
1914
The Apache Kid
1916
Tom Larnigan
1916
Fergus Derrick
1916
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Blake
1923
Bob
1923
Tom Larnigan
1916
J. Wesley Pringle
1922
Bart Carson
1921
The Detective
1913
The Superintendent
1913
Tom Larnigan
1916
The Sheriff
1915
Captain Josiah Storm
1938
The Foreman
1914
The 'Bull'
1913
The Mother's Favorite Son
1913
The Left-Handed Thief
1913
Cheyenne Kincaid
1935
First Son
1914
Keene, the Detective
1913
In Crowd (uncredited)
1913
Black La Rue
1916
Engineer Daily
1914
'The Hawk'
1924
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
1919
1914
The Adopted Son
1913
The Crook
1913
David Scanlon
1926
Jack
1917
Ohio, the Stranger
1921
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Miles Rand
1915
Tom Larnigan
1916
The Butler
1913
Daniel Brown
1926
Ramon Valentine
1916
A Prospector
1913
Tom Larnigan
1916
Tom Larnigan
1916
Ballaret Bill
1916
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Cheyenne Harry
1917
The Widowed Father
1913
The Detective
1913
Steve Packard
1922
Blaze
1916
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
1916
Miller
1913
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
1928
Jack Wilson
1917
The Bartender
1913
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
1917
Jim
1915
Raffles
1913
Second Criminal
1913
Luke
1913
Crook
1915
Cheyenne Harry
1918
1913
Hair Trigger Burke
1917
1913
1913
Alexander Smith
1927
Tony
1913
Ivan
1914
James 'Jim' Pierce
1920
Cheyenne Harry
1919
The Son-in-Law
1913
The Bandit
1915
Texas Pete - the Bandit
1915
Tom Horn
1916
Shifty
1916
Jim Kyneton
1919
John Wesley Pringle
1921
The Young Man
1913
William 'Red' Saunders
1917
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
1914
Tom Wayne
1916
Bob - the Younger Brother
1913
The Cowpuncher
1913
Tom Larnigan
1916
1910
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Dave Dawson
1915
Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
1915
Burleigh
1915
Dick Glenning
1917
Norris
1915
Cheyenne Harry
1917
The Converted Cracksman
1915
Third Thief
1913
Dick Olney
1916
Cheyenne Harry
1917
2nd Sportsman
1915
1910
Jackson - The Crook
1915
The Prospector
1915
1st Road Agent
1915
The Schemer
1913
