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's 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."
Movie | Directed by John Ford | (archive footage) | 1971-09-06 |
Movie | So Dear to My Heart | Head Judge at County Fair | 1948-11-29 |
Movie | Angel and the Badman | Marshal Wistful McClintock | 1947-02-15 |
Movie | The Sea of Grass | Doc J. Reid | 1947-04-25 |
Movie | Bacall to Arms | Rochester Soundalike (voice) | 1946-08-03 |
Movie | Duel in the Sun | Lem Smoot | 1946-12-31 |
Movie | China's Little Devils | Doc Temple | 1945-05-27 |
Movie | The Great Moment | Professor John C. Warren | 1944-07-18 |
Movie | Air Force | Crew Chief | 1943-03-20 |
Movie | Happy Land | Edward "Gramp" Marsh | 1943-11-10 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Dextry | 1942-06-11 |
Movie | The Shepherd of the Hills | Daniel Howitt | 1941-07-18 |
Movie | Parachute Battalion | Bill Richards | 1941-09-12 |
Movie | Sundown | Dewey | 1941-10-31 |
Movie | Among the Living | Dr. Ben Saunders | 1941-12-12 |
Movie | Beyond Tomorrow | George Vale Melton | 1940-05-10 |
Movie | They Knew What They Wanted | The Doctor | 1940-10-19 |
Movie | Burn 'Em Up O'Connor | P.G. Delano | 1939-01-13 |
Movie | Code of the Streets | Detective Lieutenant John Lewis | 1939-04-13 |
Movie | Street of Missing Men | Charles Putnam | 1939-04-24 |
Movie | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | President of the Senate | 1939-10-19 |
Movie | My Son is Guilty | Police Officer Tim Kerry | 1939-12-28 |
Movie | You and Me | Mr. Morris | 1938-06-01 |
Movie | Port of Missing Girls | Captain Josiah Storm | 1938-02-24 |
Movie | Sky Giant | Col. Cornelius Stockton | 1938-07-22 |
Movie | Gateway | Commissioner Nelson | 1938-08-05 |
Movie | King of Alcatraz | Captain Glennan | 1938-09-30 |
Movie | The Law West of Tombstone | William 'Bill' Barker | 1938-11-18 |
Movie | Kid Galahad | Silver Jackson | 1937-05-29 |
Movie | Racing Lady | Tom Martin | 1937-01-12 |
Movie | Born Reckless | Dad Martin | 1937-06-25 |
Movie | Border Cafe | Tex Stevens | 1937-06-04 |
Movie | Annapolis Salute | Chief Martin | 1937-09-10 |
Movie | Danger Patrol | Sam Street | 1937-11-18 |
Movie | Souls at Sea | Captain of the William Brown | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | Sutter's Gold | Kit Carson | 1936-03-01 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Shark Island | Commandant | 1936-02-28 |
Movie | Ghost Town | Cheyenne Harry Morgan | 1936-02-15 |
Movie | Little Miss Nobody | John Russell | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Phil Yonne | 1936-10-06 |
Movie | The Last Outlaw | Dean Payton | 1936-06-19 |
Movie | The Accusing Finger | Sen. Nash | 1936-11-17 |
Movie | Aces Wild | Cheyenne Harry Morgan | 1936-12-21 |
Movie | Wagon Trail | Sheriff Clay Hartley | 1935-04-08 |
Movie | Powdersmoke Range | Tucson Smith | 1935-09-27 |
Movie | Wild Mustang | Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton | 1935-10-21 |
Movie | Barbary Coast | Jed Slocum | 1935-10-13 |
Movie | The Last of the Clintons | Trigger Carson | 1935-11-12 |
Movie | Sunset Pass | John Hesbitt | 1933-05-26 |
Movie | The Thundering Herd | Clark Sprague | 1933-03-01 |
Movie | Man of the Forest | Jim Gayner | 1933-08-24 |
Movie | Without Honors | Pete Marlan | 1932-01-02 |
Movie | Border Devils | Jim Gray | 1932-04-03 |
Movie | Law and Order | Ed Brandt | 1932-02-09 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Hawkeye | 1932-05-17 |
Movie | The Devil Horse | Bob Norton / Roberts | 1932-11-01 |
Movie | The Night Rider | John Brown / Jim Blake | 1932-08-22 |
Movie | Trader Horn | Aloysius "Trader" Horn | 1931-02-03 |
Movie | The Vanishing Legion | 'Happy' Cardigan | 1931-06-01 |
Movie | Cavalier of the West | Captain John Allister | 1931-11-15 |
Movie | Bad Company | McBaine | 1931-10-16 |
Movie | The Trail of '98 | Jack Locasto | 1928-03-20 |
Movie | A Little Journey | Alexander Smith | 1927-01-01 |
Movie | Slide, Kelly, Slide | Tom Munson | 1927-03-12 |
Movie | Beyond the Border | Bob Smith | 1925-05-30 |
Movie | The Prairie Pirate | Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney | 1925-10-10 |
Movie | The Night Hawk | 'The Hawk' | 1924-02-17 |
Movie | Roaring Rails | Big Bill Benson | 1924-09-20 |
Movie | The Kickback | White Horse Harry | 1922-06-30 |
Movie | West Is West | Dick Rainboldt | 1920-11-21 |
Movie | Roped | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-01-03 |
Movie | A Fight For Love | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-03-24 |
Movie | A Gun Fightin' Gentleman | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-11-29 |
Movie | Bare Fists | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-05-05 |
Movie | Riders of Vengeance | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-06-09 |
Movie | Wild Women | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-02-25 |
Movie | Thieves' Gold | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-03-18 |
Movie | The Phantom Riders | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-01-28 |
Movie | Three Mounted Men | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-10-06 |
Movie | The Scarlet Drop | Harry Ridge | 1918-04-22 |
Movie | A Woman's Fool | Lin McLean | 1918-08-17 |
Movie | Hell Bent | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-07-05 |
Movie | Cheyenne's Pal | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-08-13 |
Movie | The Soul Herder | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-08-07 |
Movie | Straight Shooting | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-08-27 |
Movie | A Marked Man | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-10-29 |
Movie | The Secret Man | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-09-30 |
Movie | Bucking Broadway | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-12-24 |
Movie | The Three Godfathers | Bob Sangster | 1916-06-18 |
Movie | Judith of Bethulia | Assyrian Traitor | 1914-03-08 |
Movie | McVeagh of the South Seas | Cyril Bruce McVeagh | 1914-11-02 |
Movie | Black and White | 1913-08-27 | |
Movie | Broken Ways | The Sheriff | 1913-03-08 |
Movie | The Strong Man's Burden | Bob - the Younger Brother | 1913-09-05 |
Movie | So Near, Yet So Far | A Thief | 1912-09-29 |
Movie | Friends | Bob Kyne - the Prospector | 1912-09-22 |
Movie | The Painted Lady | At Ice Cream Festival | 1912-10-24 |
Movie | An Unseen Enemy | The Safecracker | 1912-09-09 |
Movie | Brutality | At Theatre | 1912-12-02 |
Movie | The Burglar’s Dilemma | Older Crook | 1912-12-16 |
Movie | The Informer | The Confederate Corporal | 1912-11-21 |
Movie | The Musketeers of Pig Alley | Snapper's Sidekick | 1912-10-31 |
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