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