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