
Harry Carey
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."
266 acting credits · 4 directing credits
Acting · 266

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939

Duel in the Sun
1946

Red River
1948

Angel and the Badman
1947

The Spoilers
1942

Air Force
1943

The Sea of Grass
1947

The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936

Kid Galahad
1937

Directed by John Ford
1971

The Shepherd of the Hills
1941

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972

Souls at Sea
1937

Sundown
1941

Gateway
1938

The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912

Border Cafe
1937

The Great Moment
1944

You and Me
1938

So Near, Yet So Far
1912

Happy Land
1943

Buffalo Stampede
1933

The Wallop
1921

Born Reckless
1937

Barbary Coast
1935

So Dear to My Heart
1948

Beyond Tomorrow
1940

Bad Company
1931

King of Alcatraz
1938

Powdersmoke Range
1935

Hell Bent
1918

The Accusing Finger
1936

Ghost Town
1936

They Knew What They Wanted
1940

Straight Shooting
1917

Overland Red
1920

Bucking Broadway
1917

The Fox
1921

Code of the Streets
1939
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913

Among the Living
1941

Trader Horn
1931

Near To Earth
1913

Inside Information
1939

Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940

Without Honor
1932

Law and Order
1932

Man of the Forest
1933

An Unseen Enemy
1912

Parachute Battalion
1941

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000

Brute Force
1914

Aces Wild
1936

Border Devils
1932

The Last Outlaw
1936

Wagon Trail
1935

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939

The Vanishing Legion
1931

Danger Patrol
1937
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
1913

The Law West of Tombstone
1938

Land of Liberty
1939
My Hero
1912

Bare Fists
1919

Sky Giant
1938
The Mirror
1913

Two Daughters of Eve
1912

Desperate Trails
1921

Marked Men
1919

Friends
1912

If We Only Knew
1913

A Knight of the Range
1916

Little Miss Nobody
1936

Crashin' Thru
1923

The Informer
1912

The Last of the Mohicans
1932

Sutter's Gold
1936
The Stolen Treaty
1913

Wild Women
1918

Roped
1919

Cavalier of the West
1931

Racing Lady
1937
All for Science
1913

The Sheriff's Baby
1913

The Night Hawk
1924

The Trail of '98
1928
Madonna of the Storm
1913
A Day's Adventure
1915

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936

Annapolis Salute
1937
Pirate Gold
1913

The Flaming Forties
1924

Blue Streak McCoy
1920

Brutality
1912
Secret Love
1916

Judith of Bethulia
1914

Silent Sanderson
1925

The Secret Man
1917

Concentration
1914

Tiger Thompson
1924
The Wedding Guest
1916
A Nest Unfeathered
1914

The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912

Street of Missing Men
1939
The Harbor Transportation Trust
1916

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912
Black and White
1913

Hearts Up
1921

Olaf—An Atom
1913
A Gamble with Death
1913

The Border Patrol
1928

Broken Ways
1913

The Tenderfoot's Money
1913

My Son Is Guilty
1939

The Lightning Rider
1924

Canyon of the Fools
1923
The Vengeance of Galora
1913

The Scarlet Drop
1918
In Diplomatic Circles
1913

The Film Parade
1933
Waifs
1914
Her Convert
1915
The Left-Handed Man
1913

Sunset Pass
1933

A Marked Man
1917
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913

The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913

The Unwelcome Guest
1913
The Stopped Clock
1913

Wild Mustang
1935
The Well
1913

The Freeze-Out
1921

Sundown Slim
1920

Burning Bridges
1928
A Frightful Blunder
1913

The Three Godfathers
1916

Cheyenne's Pal
1917

Good Men and True
1922
The Detective's Stratagem
1913

The Switchtower
1913

Port of Missing Girls
1938

Lest We Forget
1937

Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927

The Ace of the Saddle
1919

Heredity
1912
The Crook and the Girl
1913
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917
Brothers
1913

The Soul Herder
1917

Driftin' Thru
1926

The Almost Good Man
1917

Desert Driven
1923

China's Little Devils
1945
A Woman's Eyes
1916

Roaring Rails
1924

Graft
1915
The Railroad Monopoly
1916
The Wrong Bottle
1913
The One She Loved
1912
When Love Forgives
1913
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917

The Outlaw and the Lady
1917

Bullet Proof
1920

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
Blood Money
1917

Riders of Vengeance
1919

Thieves' Gold
1918
I Was Meant for You
1913

Human Stuff
1920

A Little Journey
1927

Soft Shoes
1925

A Woman's Fool
1918

Rider of the Law
1919

In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
The Way Out
1915
The Ranchero's Revenge
1913

A 44-Calibre Mystery
1917
Film Fun
1955

The Painted Lady
1912

A Cry for Help
1912
The Enemy's Baby
1913

The Texas Trail
1925
Under the Shadow of the Law
1913

A Fight For Love
1919

The Kickback
1922

The Strong Man's Burden
1913

Just Jim
1915

Legends of the West
1992

The Last of the Clintons
1935
The Law and His Son
1913
Her Dormant Love
1915
The Hero of Little Italy
1913
Her Hand
1914

Beyond the Border
1925
A Chance Deception
1913
The Passing of Hell's Crown
1916
Goin' Straight
1917

McVeagh of the South Seas
1914

The Committee on Credentials
1916

The Bad Lands
1925
The Miser's Legacy
1915
Old King Coal
1916
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917

The Phantom Riders
1918
Old Offenders
1915

The Prairie Pirate
1925

Rustler's Paradise
1935
His Fireman's Conscience
1914
The Sorrowful Shore
1913

The Night Rider
1932
Guilty
1916

Man to Man
1922

'If Only' Jim
1920
The Insurance Swindlers
1916

The Master Cracksman
1914

Behind the Lines
1916
The Conspiracy
1916

A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
1919

West Is West
1920
The Wrong Man
1917

The Fighting Gringo
1917
A Tender-Hearted Crook
1913

The Man from Red Gulch
1925

Satan Town
1926
The Drifter
1917
The Stolen Loaf
1913

Oil and Water
1913
A Modest Hero
1913
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
1915
The Abandoned Well
1913
The Power of the People
1916
The Devil's Own
1916
A Gambler's Honor
1913

Three Mounted Men
1918

The Frontier Trail
1926
A Misappropriated Turkey
1913

The Miracle Baby
1923
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910
The Work Habit
1913

Her Father's Silent Partner
1914

The Seventh Bandit
1926
Grinding Life Down
1916

The Movie Album
1932
The Jackals of a Great City
1916

Love's Lariat
1916
As It Happened
1915
The Van Nostrand Tiara
1913
The Mysterious Outlaw
1917
Six-Shooter Justice
1917
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
1915

The Devil Horse
1932
For Her Government
1913
America Saved from War
1916
The Love Transcendent
1915

The Night Riders
1916
The Gambler's I.O.U.
1915
A Double Winning
1915
The Sheriff's Dilemma
1915

The Heart of a Bandit
1915
For the Love of a Girl
1916

The Canceled Mortgage
1915
Gentleman Joe
1910
A Dangerous Foe
1913
His Desperate Deed
1915

The Golden Bullet
1917
The Stolen Bride
1913