Acting
Harry Carey
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."
Movies with Harry Carey
Red River
1948
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Duel in the Sun
1946
Directed by John Ford
1971
Angel and the Badman
1947
Film Fun
1955
Annapolis Salute
1937
Buffalo Stampede
1933
Hell Bent
1918
So Dear to My Heart
1948
Brutality
1912
The Spoilers
1942
Racing Lady
1937
Air Force
1943
The Sea of Grass
1947
The Well
1913
Kid Galahad
1937
Bare Fists
1919
Old Offenders
1915
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941
Roaring Rails
1924
Barbary Coast
1935
Legends of the West
1992
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Her Convert
1915
Law and Order
1932
You and Me
1938
Judith of Bethulia
1914
Man of the Forest
1933
Tiger Thompson
1924
Border Cafe
1937
The Mirror
1913
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Happy Land
1943
Lest We Forget
1937
The Kickback
1922
Gateway
1938
Her Hand
1914
Oil and Water
1913
Roped
1919
Trader Horn
1931
Land of Liberty
1939
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000
Concentration
1914
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
Sutter's Gold
1936
Among the Living
1941
King of Alcatraz
1938
Souls at Sea
1937
The Stolen Bride
1913
Hearts Up
1921
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913
The Secret Man
1917
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912
Gentleman Joe
1910
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913
If We Only Knew
1913
A Marked Man
1917
An Unseen Enemy
1912
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
The Ranchero's Revenge
1913
Little Miss Nobody
1936
Madonna of the Storm
1913
The Last Outlaw
1936
The Stolen Treaty
1913
Desert Driven
1923
Parachute Battalion
1941
The Informer
1912
A Gamble with Death
1913
Born Reckless
1937
Danger Patrol
1937
Sundown
1941
The Hero of Little Italy
1913
Sundown Slim
1920
Sky Giant
1938
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
1915
The Vanishing Legion
1931
My Son Is Guilty
1939
As It Happened
1915
Her Father's Silent Partner
1914
Good Men and True
1922
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
1919
The Law and His Son
1913
Code of the Streets
1939
Six-Shooter Justice
1917
Straight Shooting
1917
The Wrong Bottle
1913
China's Little Devils
1945
A Modest Hero
1913
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912
Cheyenne's Pal
1917
The Crook and the Girl
1913
Without Honor
1932
The Way Out
1915
The Great Moment
1944
In Diplomatic Circles
1913
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940
Cavalier of the West
1931
The Abandoned Well
1913
Friends
1912
Love's Lariat
1916
The Accusing Finger
1936
A Tender-Hearted Crook
1913
Heredity
1912
I Was Meant for You
1913
A Dangerous Foe
1913
The Devil's Own
1916
The Committee on Credentials
1916
The Three Godfathers
1916
Beyond the Border
1925
A Cry for Help
1912
The Trail of '98
1928
Graft
1915
The Scarlet Drop
1918
Powdersmoke Range
1935
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
Wild Mustang
1935
The Detective's Stratagem
1913
The One She Loved
1912
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
1915
The Gambler's I.O.U.
1915
The Vengeance of Galora
1913
The Law West of Tombstone
1938
Her Dormant Love
1915
The Ace of the Saddle
1919
The Jackals of a Great City
1916
The Sheriff's Baby
1913
A Nest Unfeathered
1914
The Movie Album
1932
When Love Forgives
1913
Under the Shadow of the Law
1913
McVeagh of the South Seas
1914
For Her Government
1913
The Fox
1921
A Gambler's Honor
1913
Riders of Vengeance
1919
The Night Rider
1932
Black and White
1913
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910
They Knew What They Wanted
1940
Ghost Town
1936
The Last of the Clintons
1935
The Man from Red Gulch
1925
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913
The Freeze-Out
1921
A Woman's Fool
1918
West Is West
1920
A Little Journey
1927
The Master Cracksman
1914
His Fireman's Conscience
1914
The Seventh Bandit
1926
The Wallop
1921
A Knight of the Range
1916
Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927
The Painted Lady
1912
The Unwelcome Guest
1913
Sunset Pass
1933
The Flaming Forties
1924
The Last of the Mohicans
1932
Wagon Trail
1935
Three Mounted Men
1918
The Frontier Trail
1926
Behind the Lines
1916
The Miser's Legacy
1915
A Misappropriated Turkey
1913
The Miracle Baby
1923
The Left-Handed Man
1913
The Van Nostrand Tiara
1913
The Phantom Riders
1918
'If Only' Jim
1920
The Sheriff's Dilemma
1915
The Stopped Clock
1913
For the Love of a Girl
1916
Man to Man
1922
The Bad Lands
1925
Brute Force
1914
The Devil Horse
1932
His Desperate Deed
1915
The Love Transcendent
1915
The Soul Herder
1917
Aces Wild
1936
Blue Streak McCoy
1920
The Tenderfoot's Money
1913
Inside Information
1939
The Canceled Mortgage
1915
A Double Winning
1915
The Border Patrol
1928
Two Daughters of Eve
1912
My Hero
1912
Secret Love
1916
Pirate Gold
1913
Near To Earth
1913
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917
Desperate Trails
1921
Driftin' Thru
1926
The Film Parade
1933
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
A Woman's Eyes
1916
The Prairie Pirate
1925
The Passing of Hell's Crown
1916
The Fighting Gringo
1917
The Switchtower
1913
The Wrong Man
1917
A Chance Deception
1913
Bucking Broadway
1917
Marked Men
1919
Wild Women
1918
The Harbor Transportation Trust
1916
Port of Missing Girls
1938
Bullet Proof
1920
Silent Sanderson
1925
The Strong Man's Burden
1913
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917
Guilty
1916
A Day's Adventure
1915
A Frightful Blunder
1913
The Lightning Rider
1924
Canyon of the Fools
1923
The Wedding Guest
1916
A 44-Calibre Mystery
1917
Soft Shoes
1925
Waifs
1914
America Saved from War
1916
Goin' Straight
1917
Overland Red
1920
The Stolen Loaf
1913
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
1913
The Night Hawk
1924
The Outlaw and the Lady
1917
The Mysterious Outlaw
1917
Broken Ways
1913
Rustler's Paradise
1935
Bad Company
1931
Thieves' Gold
1918
Burning Bridges
1928
The Power of the People
1916
The Enemy's Baby
1913
Street of Missing Men
1939
A Fight For Love
1919
The Work Habit
1913
Grinding Life Down
1916
Satan Town
1926
The Heart of a Bandit
1915
The Golden Bullet
1917
The Sorrowful Shore
1913
Rider of the Law
1919
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912
Border Devils
1932
All for Science
1913
Blood Money
1917
The Texas Trail
1925
Just Jim
1915
The Night Riders
1916
Brothers
1913
Human Stuff
1920
Old King Coal
1916
The Almost Good Man
1917
The Insurance Swindlers
1916
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917
Crashin' Thru
1923
Olaf—An Atom
1913
The Railroad Monopoly
1916
The Drifter
1917
The Conspiracy
1916