Harry Carey
Acting
🎂 1878-01-16
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."
Cast credits(264)
Mr. Melville
1948
President of the Senate
1939
Commandant
1936
Marshal Wistful McClintock
1947
Lem Smoot
1946
George Vale Melton
1940
Mr. Morris
1938
Crew Chief
1943
Jed Slocum
1935
Daniel Howitt
1941
Dextry
1942
Head Judge at County Fair
1948
Doc J. Reid
1947
Sen. Nash
1936
Silver Jackson
1937
Dr. Ben Saunders
1941
Big Bill Benson
1924
Dewey
1941
Captain of the William Brown
1937
The Neighbor's Friend
1912
Pete Marlan
1932
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
1939
Pat Halahan
1925
The Sheriff
1913
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
1931
Kit Carson
1936
Charles Putnam
1939
Self (archive footage)
1972
(archive footage)
1971
Clark Sprague
1933
Commissioner Nelson
1938
Captain Bill Dugan
1939
Indian
1912
Assyrian Traitor
1914
Police Officer Tim Kerry
1939
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
1992
Jim Gayner
1933
Professor John C. Warren
1944
The Sheriff
1913
Phil Yonne
1936
1913
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
1925
John Brown / Jim Blake
1932
In Audience
1912
2nd Clan Member
1912
William 'Bill' Barker
1938
Tom Horn
1916
The Thief
1913
The Thief
1912
1913
"Cheyenne" Harry
1917
Edward "Gramp" Marsh
1943
A Thief
1912
Harry Ridge
1918
Cheyenne Harry
1917
The Sailor
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Bob Sangster
1916
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
1935
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936
Bill Jones
1924
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Dad Martin
1937
Ed Brandt
1932
Miles Rand
1915
At Theatre
1912
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Lin McLean
1918
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
1914
Tex Stevens
1937
Bill Richards
1941
Second Bandit
1913
Ol' Santa Fe
1921
Bill Scott
1926
The Doctor
1940
Captain Bailey
1940
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
1914
1913
Jim Golden
1920
The Gambler
1913
Steve Packard
1922
Third Thief
1913
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Captain Glennan
1938
Cheyenne Harry
1919
At Ice Cream Festival
1912
Jack Wilson
1917
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Sam "Easy" Street
1937
The Confederate Corporal
1912
Jack Locasto
1928
Snapper's Sidekick
1912
Tom Wayne
1916
Trigger Carson
1935
The Thief
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Bob Smith
1925
Col. Cornelius Stockton
1938
Hawkeye
1932
White Horse Harry
1922
1913
Bob Cole
1912
First Tramp
1913
Captain Josiah Storm
1938
David Scanlon
1926
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
1912
Luke
1913
Doc Temple
1945
John Russell
1936
Sheriff Clay Hartley
1935
(archive footage)
1939
P.G. Delano
1939
1913
The Safecracker
1912
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
1919
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
1925
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
1916
Cheyenne Harry
1917
'The Hawk'
1924
Alexander Smith
1927
John Hesbitt
1933
1910
Cheyenne Harry
1917
The White Renegade Father
1912
Himself
1937
Tony
1913
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
1919
Cheyenne Harry
1916
Engineer Daily
1914
Sky High
1916
Blaze
1916
The Crook
1913
Neil Allison
1923
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936
Pierre Winton
1920
Cheyenne Harry
1919
The Son-in-Law
1913
Phlip Morgan
1924
'Happy' Cardigan
1931
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Jim Gray
1932
Daniel Brown
1926
Bob
1923
Older Crook
1912
Captain John Allister
1931
The Bandit
1915
Ballaret Bill
1916
Tucson Smith
1935
Giuseppe, the Farmhand
1913
Fergus Derrick
1916
The Gambler
1913
The Mother's Favorite Son
1913
Jim Cardigan
1926
(archive footage)
2000
Cheyenne Harry
1918
Bob - the Younger Brother
1913
McBaine
1931
Tiger Thompson
1924
J. Wesley Pringle
1922
The Convict
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1917
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Job McCoy
1920
Tom Martin
1937
Black La Rue
1916
Chief Martin
1937
Shifty
1916
Blake
1923
Pete Grainger
1925
Dick Rainboldt
1920
Cheyenne Harry
1919
The Husband
1913
William 'Red' Saunders
1917
The Bartender
1913
Jackson - The Crook
1915
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
(archive footage)
1955
Dean Payton
1936
Tom Munson
1927
Tom Larnigan
1916
Tom Larnigan
1916
Buck Lessen
1917
In Crowd (uncredited)
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1919
Olaf, an Atom
1913
David Brent
1921
Cheyenne Harry
1919
A Prospector
1913
Keene, the Detective
1913
Second Criminal
1913
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
1928
Ramon Valentine
1916
Jack
1917
Manning
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Jim
1915
The Butler
1913
The Adopted Son
1913
The Foreman
1914
1913
The Butler
1913
Bill Storm
1928
Bart Carson
1921
The Left-Handed Thief
1913
Norris
1915
Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
1915
Ivan
1914
John Wesley Pringle
1921
Raffles
1913
Jim Kyneton
1919
Ohio, the Stranger
1921
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
1915
Hair Trigger Burke
1917
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
1925
1913
1914
The Schemer
1913
The 'Bull'
1913
Texas Pete - the Bandit
1915
Cheyenne Kincaid
1935
2nd Sportsman
1915
Bob Norton / Roberts
1932
1914
Tom Larnigan
1916
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
1915
Patrick Angus O'Toole
1925
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Dick Olney
1916
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
1917
James 'Jim' Pierce
1920
Tom Larnigan
1916
Society Detective
1913
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
1916
The New Foreman
1915
The Young Man
1913
Overland Red
1920
Miller
1913
Bob
1923
The Detective
1913
The Prospector
1915
The Cowpuncher
1913
Cheyenne Harry
1917
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
1914
The Widowed Father
1913
The Thief
1913
1st Road Agent
1915
1910
Sundown Slim
1920
Tom Larnigan
1916
Burleigh
1915
Tom Larnigan
1916
First Son
1914
The Converted Cracksman
1915
Tom Larnigan
1916
The Detective
1913
The Sheriff
1915
The Superintendent
1913
Crook
1915
Dave Dawson
1915
Dick Glenning
1917
