Harry Carey
Acting
- Born:
- 1878-01-16
- Died:
- 1947-09-21
- Place of birth:
- The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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."
Known For
Filmography
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Legends of the West
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Directed by John Ford
Film Fun
So Dear to My Heart
Red River
The Sea of Grass
Angel and the Badman
Duel in the Sun
China's Little Devils
The Great Moment
Happy Land
Air Force
The Spoilers
Among the Living
Sundown
Parachute Battalion
The Shepherd of the Hills
They Knew What They Wanted
Beyond Tomorrow
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
My Son Is Guilty
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Land of Liberty
Inside Information
Street of Missing Men
Code of the Streets
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
The Law West of Tombstone
King of Alcatraz
Gateway
Sky Giant
You and Me
Port of Missing Girls
Danger Patrol
Annapolis Salute
Souls at Sea
Born Reckless
Border Cafe
Kid Galahad
Lest We Forget
Racing Lady
Aces Wild
The Accusing Finger
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
The Last Outlaw
Little Miss Nobody
Sutter's Gold
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Ghost Town
The Last of the Clintons
Wild Mustang
Barbary Coast
Powdersmoke Range
Rustler's Paradise
Wagon Trail
Man of the Forest
Sunset Pass
Buffalo Stampede
The Film Parade
The Devil Horse
The Night Rider
The Last of the Mohicans
Border Devils
The Movie Album
Law and Order
Without Honor
Cavalier of the West
Bad Company
The Vanishing Legion
Trader Horn
The Border Patrol
Burning Bridges
The Trail of '98
Slide, Kelly, Slide
A Little Journey
Satan Town
The Frontier Trail
The Seventh Bandit
Driftin' Thru
The Man from Red Gulch
The Prairie Pirate
The Bad Lands
The Texas Trail
Beyond the Border
Silent Sanderson
Soft Shoes
The Flaming Forties
Roaring Rails
Tiger Thompson
The Lightning Rider
The Night Hawk
The Miracle Baby
Desert Driven
Crashin' Thru
Canyon of the Fools
Good Men and True
The Kickback
Man to Man
The Fox
Desperate Trails
The Wallop
The Freeze-Out
Hearts Up
West Is West
Sundown Slim
Blue Streak McCoy
'If Only' Jim
Human Stuff
Bullet Proof
Overland Red
Marked Men
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Rider of the Law
The Ace of the Saddle
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Riders of Vengeance
Bare Fists
A Fight For Love
Roped
Three Mounted Men
A Woman's Fool
Hell Bent
The Scarlet Drop
Thieves' Gold
Wild Women
The Phantom Riders
Bucking Broadway
A Marked Man
The Secret Man
Straight Shooting
Cheyenne's Pal
The Soul Herder
Six-Shooter Justice
The Wrong Man
The Golden Bullet
The Mysterious Outlaw
The Almost Good Man
A 44-Calibre Mystery
The Honor of an Outlaw
Hair-Trigger Burke
The Fighting Gringo
Goin' Straight
The Drifter
The Outlaw and the Lady
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Blood Money
Guilty
The Conspiracy
Behind the Lines
The Devil's Own
A Woman's Eyes
Love's Lariat
For the Love of a Girl
The Committee on Credentials
The Jackals of a Great City
The Three Godfathers
The Wedding Guest
The Passing of Hell's Crown
The Night Riders
The Harbor Transportation Trust
A Knight of the Range
The Insurance Swindlers
Secret Love
Old King Coal
America Saved from War
The Railroad Monopoly
Grinding Life Down
The Power of the People
Graft
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Just Jim
As It Happened
Old Offenders
Her Convert
The Way Out
Her Dormant Love
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
The Canceled Mortgage
A Day's Adventure
A Double Winning
The Gambler's I.O.U.
The Miser's Legacy
The Sheriff's Dilemma
The Love Transcendent
His Desperate Deed
The Heart of a Bandit
McVeagh of the South Seas
The Master Cracksman
Brute Force
Her Hand
Judith of Bethulia
Her Father's Silent Partner
A Nest Unfeathered
His Fireman's Conscience
Waifs
Concentration
The Abandoned Well
For Her Government
All for Science
The Detective's Stratagem
The Stopped Clock
Madonna of the Storm
The Van Nostrand Tiara
A Tender-Hearted Crook
The Law and His Son
The Stolen Treaty
A Modest Hero
The Strong Man's Burden
Black and White
The Crook and the Girl
The Work Habit
Under the Shadow of the Law
When Love Forgives
I Was Meant for You
The Vengeance of Galora
A Misappropriated Turkey
The Mirror
A Gambler's Honor
A Gamble with Death
In Diplomatic Circles
The Switchtower
The Well
The Enemy's Baby
Red Hicks Defies the World
The Sorrowful Shore
The Ranchero's Revenge
A Dangerous Foe
Olaf—An Atom
The Stolen Loaf
The Tenderfoot's Money
If We Only Knew
The Left-Handed Man
A Frightful Blunder
The Stolen Bride
The Hero of Little Italy
The Sheriff's Baby
Near To Earth
The Unwelcome Guest
Broken Ways
The Wrong Bottle
Love in an Apartment Hotel
A Chance Deception
Oil and Water
Brothers
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Pirate Gold
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
A Cry for Help
The Burglar’s Dilemma
My Hero
Brutality
The Informer
Heredity
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Painted Lady
The One She Loved
In the Aisles of the Wild
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
So Near, Yet So Far
Friends
Two Daughters of Eve
An Unseen Enemy
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
Gentleman Joe