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