Harry Carey
Acting • Born 1878-01-16 – Died 1947-09-21
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."
Filmography
265 credits
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
President of the Senate
Red River
Movie • 1948
Mr. Melville
Angel and the Badman
Movie • 1947
Marshal Wistful McClintock
Beyond Tomorrow
Movie • 1940
George Vale Melton
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Movie • 2000
(archive footage)
Duel in the Sun
Movie • 1946
Lem Smoot
Desperate Trails
Movie • 1921
Bart Carson
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Movie • 1940
Captain Bailey
The Freeze-Out
Movie • 1921
Ohio, the Stranger
The Great Moment
Movie • 1944
Professor John C. Warren
Bullet Proof
Movie • 1920
Pierre Winton
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Movie • 1912
Snapper's Sidekick
Among the Living
Movie • 1941
Dr. Ben Saunders
The Shepherd of the Hills
Movie • 1941
Daniel Howitt
Souls at Sea
Movie • 1937
Captain of the William Brown
The Committee on Credentials
Movie • 1916
Ballaret Bill
The Spoilers
Movie • 1942
Dextry
The Fox
Movie • 1921
Ol' Santa Fe
Air Force
Movie • 1943
Crew Chief
You and Me
Movie • 1938
Mr. Morris
The Bad Lands
Movie • 1925
Patrick Angus O'Toole
Kid Galahad
Movie • 1937
Silver Jackson
The Sheriff's Baby
Movie • 1913
Second Bandit
Trader Horn
Movie • 1931
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
Pirate Gold
Movie • 1913
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
Movie • 1910
Gentleman Joe
Movie • 1910
Two Daughters of Eve
Movie • 1912
In Audience
In the Aisles of the Wild
Movie • 1912
Bob Cole
Sundown
Movie • 1941
Dewey
A Cry for Help
Movie • 1912
The Thief
The Left-Handed Man
Movie • 1913
The Left-Handed Thief
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Movie • 1913
Third Thief
A Misappropriated Turkey
Movie • 1913
The Bartender
Brothers
Movie • 1913
The Mother's Favorite Son
A Chance Deception
Movie • 1913
Raffles
Love in an Apartment Hotel
Movie • 1913
The Thief
The Wrong Bottle
Movie • 1913
The Hero of Little Italy
Movie • 1913
Tony
A Frightful Blunder
Movie • 1913
The Superintendent
A Modest Hero
Movie • 1913
Madonna of the Storm
Movie • 1913
If We Only Knew
Movie • 1913
The Sailor
The Tenderfoot's Money
Movie • 1913
The Gambler
Heredity
Movie • 1912
The White Renegade Father
Brutality
Movie • 1912
At Theatre
My Hero
Movie • 1912
Indian
Near To Earth
Movie • 1913
The Stolen Loaf
Movie • 1913
The Butler
A Dangerous Foe
Movie • 1913
The 'Bull'
The Ranchero's Revenge
Movie • 1913
The Schemer
Red Hicks Defies the World
Movie • 1913
In Crowd (uncredited)
The Well
Movie • 1913
Giuseppe, the Farmhand
The Switchtower
Movie • 1913
In Diplomatic Circles
Movie • 1913
The Butler
A Gamble with Death
Movie • 1913
The Cowpuncher
The Sorrowful Shore
Movie • 1913
The Widowed Father
The Enemy's Baby
Movie • 1913
Miller
A Gambler's Honor
Movie • 1913
The Gambler
The Mirror
Movie • 1913
First Tramp
The Vengeance of Galora
Movie • 1913
A Prospector
When Love Forgives
Movie • 1913
Second Criminal
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Movie • 1936
Commandant
Under the Shadow of the Law
Movie • 1913
The Convict
I Was Meant for You
Movie • 1913
Luke
The Work Habit
Movie • 1913
The Son-in-Law
The Crook and the Girl
Movie • 1913
The Crook
Brute Force
Movie • 1914
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
The Stolen Treaty
Movie • 1913
The Detective
The Law and His Son
Movie • 1913
Manning
The Van Nostrand Tiara
Movie • 1913
Society Detective
The Stopped Clock
Movie • 1913
The Detective
The Detective's Stratagem
Movie • 1913
Keene, the Detective
All for Science
Movie • 1913
The Young Man
For Her Government
Movie • 1913
The Abandoned Well
Movie • 1913
The Adopted Son
Concentration
Movie • 1914
First Son
They Knew What They Wanted
Movie • 1940
The Doctor
Without Honor
Movie • 1932
Pete Marlan
The Sea of Grass
Movie • 1947
Doc J. Reid
Bucking Broadway
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
An Unseen Enemy
Movie • 1912
The Safecracker
King of Alcatraz
Movie • 1938
Captain Glennan
The Heart of a Bandit
Movie • 1915
Texas Pete - the Bandit
His Desperate Deed
Movie • 1915
Burleigh
Waifs
Movie • 1914
His Fireman's Conscience
Movie • 1914
Engineer Daily
A Nest Unfeathered
Movie • 1914
The Foreman
Her Father's Silent Partner
Movie • 1914
Judith of Bethulia
Movie • 1914
Assyrian Traitor
Her Hand
Movie • 1914
Ivan
The Master Cracksman
Movie • 1914
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
Just Jim
Movie • 1915
Jim
The Love Transcendent
Movie • 1915
The Prospector
The Sheriff's Dilemma
Movie • 1915
The Sheriff
The Miser's Legacy
Movie • 1915
Jackson - The Crook
The Gambler's I.O.U.
Movie • 1915
Dave Dawson
A Double Winning
Movie • 1915
2nd Sportsman
A Day's Adventure
Movie • 1915
Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
The Canceled Mortgage
Movie • 1915
1st Road Agent
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Movie • 1915
Crook
Her Dormant Love
Movie • 1915
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
The Way Out
Movie • 1915
The Bandit
Her Convert
Movie • 1915
The Converted Cracksman
Old Offenders
Movie • 1915
Norris
As It Happened
Movie • 1915
The New Foreman
Graft
Movie • 1915
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
The Power of the People
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
Grinding Life Down
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
The Railroad Monopoly
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
America Saved from War
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
Old King Coal
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
The Insurance Swindlers
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
A Knight of the Range
Movie • 1916
Cheyenne Harry
The Harbor Transportation Trust
Movie • 1916
Tom Larnigan
Law and Order
Movie • 1932
Ed Brandt
The Passing of Hell's Crown
Movie • 1916
Blaze
The Wedding Guest
Movie • 1916
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
The Jackals of a Great City
Movie • 1916
Tom Wayne
For the Love of a Girl
Movie • 1916
Black La Rue
A Woman's Eyes
Movie • 1916
Tom Horn
The Devil's Own
Movie • 1916
Shifty
The Conspiracy
Movie • 1916
Dick Olney
Guilty
Movie • 1916
Ramon Valentine
Blood Money
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Sky Giant
Movie • 1938
Col. Cornelius Stockton
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Outlaw and the Lady
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Drifter
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Goin' Straight
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Hair-Trigger Burke
Movie • 1917
Hair Trigger Burke
The Honor of an Outlaw
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Movie • 1917
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
The Almost Good Man
Movie • 1917
Dick Glenning
Six-Shooter Justice
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Mysterious Outlaw
Movie • 1917
Buck Lessen
The Golden Bullet
Movie • 1917
Jack
Human Stuff
Movie • 1920
James 'Jim' Pierce
The Wrong Man
Movie • 1917
Jack Wilson
Inside Information
Movie • 1939
Captain Bill Dugan
The Accusing Finger
Movie • 1936
Sen. Nash
Burning Bridges
Movie • 1928
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
Satan Town
Movie • 1926
Bill Scott
The Frontier Trail
Movie • 1926
Jim Cardigan
The Seventh Bandit
Movie • 1926
David Scanlon
Driftin' Thru
Movie • 1926
Daniel Brown
The Man from Red Gulch
Movie • 1925
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
The Texas Trail
Movie • 1925
Pete Grainger
Silent Sanderson
Movie • 1925
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
'If Only' Jim
Movie • 1920
Jim Golden
Good Men and True
Movie • 1922
J. Wesley Pringle
Crashin' Thru
Movie • 1923
Blake
Desert Driven
Movie • 1923
Bob
The Miracle Baby
Movie • 1923
Neil Allison
Tiger Thompson
Movie • 1924
Tiger Thompson
Overland Red
Movie • 1920
Overland Red
Legends of the West
Movie • 1992
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Vanishing Legion
Movie • 1931
'Happy' Cardigan
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie • 1932
Hawkeye
Border Devils
Movie • 1932
Jim Gray
The Law West of Tombstone
Movie • 1938
William 'Bill' Barker
Ghost Town
Movie • 1936
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
Buffalo Stampede
Movie • 1933
Clark Sprague
The Night Rider
Movie • 1932
John Brown / Jim Blake
The Devil Horse
Movie • 1932
Bob Norton / Roberts
The Painted Lady
Movie • 1912
At Ice Cream Festival
Man of the Forest
Movie • 1933
Jim Gayner
Wagon Trail
Movie • 1935
Sheriff Clay Hartley
So Near, Yet So Far
Movie • 1912
A Thief
The Prairie Pirate
Movie • 1925
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
Friends
Movie • 1912
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Movie • 1912
Older Crook
Border Cafe
Movie • 1937
Tex Stevens
Racing Lady
Movie • 1937
Tom Martin
The Last of the Clintons
Movie • 1935
Trigger Carson
Annapolis Salute
Movie • 1937
Chief Martin
Parachute Battalion
Movie • 1941
Bill Richards
Born Reckless
Movie • 1937
Dad Martin
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Movie • 1939
P.G. Delano
Little Miss Nobody
Movie • 1936
John Russell
Happy Land
Movie • 1943
Edward "Gramp" Marsh
Port of Missing Girls
Movie • 1938
Captain Josiah Storm
Cavalier of the West
Movie • 1931
Captain John Allister
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry
Aces Wild
Movie • 1936
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
Sunset Pass
Movie • 1933
John Hesbitt
Straight Shooting
Movie • 1917
"Cheyenne" Harry
Danger Patrol
Movie • 1937
Sam "Easy" Street
Barbary Coast
Movie • 1935
Jed Slocum
The Last Outlaw
Movie • 1936
Dean Payton
Land of Liberty
Movie • 1939
(archive footage)
So Dear to My Heart
Movie • 1948
Head Judge at County Fair
Gateway
Movie • 1938
Commissioner Nelson
Hell Bent
Movie • 1918
Cheyenne Harry
The Three Godfathers
Movie • 1916
Bob Sangster
West Is West
Movie • 1920
Dick Rainboldt
The Kickback
Movie • 1922
White Horse Harry
Sutter's Gold
Movie • 1936
Kit Carson
The Night Hawk
Movie • 1924
'The Hawk'
Wild Mustang
Movie • 1935
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie • 1936
Phil Yonne
Roaring Rails
Movie • 1924
Big Bill Benson
Black and White
Movie • 1913
The Trail of '98
Movie • 1928
Jack Locasto
Powdersmoke Range
Movie • 1935
Tucson Smith
Street of Missing Men
Movie • 1939
Charles Putnam
My Son Is Guilty
Movie • 1939
Police Officer Tim Kerry
Code of the Streets
Movie • 1939
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
China's Little Devils
Movie • 1945
Doc Temple
The Strong Man's Burden
Movie • 1913
Bob - the Younger Brother
Slide, Kelly, Slide
Movie • 1927
Tom Munson
The Soul Herder
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne's Pal
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Secret Man
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
A Marked Man
Movie • 1917
Cheyenne Harry
The Phantom Riders
Movie • 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Wild Women
Movie • 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Thieves' Gold
Movie • 1918
Cheyenne Harry
The Scarlet Drop
Movie • 1918
Harry Ridge
A Woman's Fool
Movie • 1918
Lin McLean
Three Mounted Men
Movie • 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Roped
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry
McVeagh of the South Seas
Movie • 1914
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
A Little Journey
Movie • 1927
Alexander Smith
A Fight For Love
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry
Bare Fists
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry
Riders of Vengeance
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry
Beyond the Border
Movie • 1925
Bob Smith
Broken Ways
Movie • 1913
The Sheriff
The Unwelcome Guest
Movie • 1913
The Sheriff
The Informer
Movie • 1912
The Confederate Corporal
The One She Loved
Movie • 1912
The Neighbor's Friend
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
Movie • 1912
2nd Clan Member
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Movie • 1913
The Thief
Soft Shoes
Movie • 1925
Pat Halahan
The Flaming Forties
Movie • 1924
Bill Jones
Marked Men
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry
The Film Parade
Movie • 1933
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Movie • 1919
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
The Ace of the Saddle
Movie • 1919
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
Rider of the Law
Movie • 1919
Jim Kyneton
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Movie • 1915
Miles Rand
Bad Company
Movie • 1931
McBaine
Oil and Water
Movie • 1913
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
Behind the Lines
Movie • 1916
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
Love's Lariat
Movie • 1916
Sky High
The Border Patrol
Movie • 1928
Bill Storm
Canyon of the Fools
Movie • 1923
Bob
Man to Man
Movie • 1922
Steve Packard
Blue Streak McCoy
Movie • 1920
Job McCoy
The Lightning Rider
Movie • 1924
Phlip Morgan
Olaf—An Atom
Movie • 1913
Olaf, an Atom
Film Fun
Movie • 1955
(archive footage)
The Fighting Gringo
Movie • 1917
William 'Red' Saunders
Directed by John Ford
Movie • 1971
(archive footage)
The Stolen Bride
Movie • 1913
The Husband
Sundown Slim
Movie • 1920
Sundown Slim
Rustler's Paradise
Movie • 1935
Cheyenne Kincaid
Secret Love
Movie • 1916
Fergus Derrick
A Tender-Hearted Crook
Movie • 1913
The Thief
The Wallop
Movie • 1921
John Wesley Pringle
Hearts Up
Movie • 1921
David Brent
Lest We Forget
Movie • 1937
Himself
The Night Riders
Movie • 1916
The Apache Kid