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