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