Harry Carey

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

148

Movies

266

Born: January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947
From: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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."

Works

266 films

Red River

19487.3

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

19397.8

Duel in the Sun

19466.4

Her Father's Silent Partner

1914

Directed by John Ford

19717.0

Her Convert

1915

Air Force

19436.5

Angel and the Badman

19476.4

Bare Fists

19195.0

The Shepherd of the Hills

19416.6

Kid Galahad

19377.1

Annapolis Salute

19376.7

Buffalo Stampede

19334.1

The Spoilers

19426.2

So Dear to My Heart

19486.6

Racing Lady

19376.0

Legends of the West

1992

Sundown Slim

19208.0

The Prisoner of Shark Island

19366.9

As It Happened

1915

You and Me

19386.6

Barbary Coast

19356.4

Hell Bent

19185.6

Film Fun

19555.3

Judith of Bethulia

19146.1

Desert Driven

19238.0

Hearts Up

19218.0

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Street of Missing Men

19398.0

Trader Horn

19315.4

Oil and Water

1913

The Sea of Grass

19476.1

Souls at Sea

19376.5

The Stolen Bride

1913

Law and Order

19325.0

Roaring Rails

19246.9

The Night Rider

19328.0

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

200010.0

The Kickback

19229.0

Sundown

19415.6

The Mirror

1913

Roped

19197.0

The Lightning Rider

19249.0

West Is West

19207.0

Man of the Forest

19336.3

Gateway

19387.4

Land of Liberty

19399.0

In Diplomatic Circles

191310.0

The Wrong Bottle

1913

The Detective's Stratagem

19137.0

The Accusing Finger

19365.8

A Modest Hero

1913

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

19366.7

Brutality

1912

Sky Giant

19385.3

The Great Moment

19445.8

In the Aisles of the Wild

1912

The Last of the Mohicans

19326.8

Tiger Thompson

19249.0

The Movie Album

19327.5

A Marked Man

19174.5

The Freeze-Out

19217.0

Love's Lariat

1916

Riders of Vengeance

19196.5

Little Miss Nobody

19367.5

Beyond Tomorrow

19406.1

Man to Man

19227.0

Madonna of the Storm

1913

So Near, Yet So Far

19125.9

The Secret Man

19175.0

Old Offenders

1915

The Well

1913

Among the Living

19416.1

Black and White

1913

The Stolen Treaty

1913

King of Alcatraz

19386.0

Danger Patrol

19376.4

The Film Parade

19338.0

The Sheriff's Dilemma

1915

Her Hand

19148.0

The Wallop

19216.5

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

19126.2

Red Hicks Defies the World

191310.0

The Ranchero's Revenge

1913

Cavalier of the West

19315.1

The Hero of Little Italy

1913

The One She Loved

1912

Lest We Forget

19377.0

Concentration

1914

Code of the Streets

19397.7

They Knew What They Wanted

19406.0

Parachute Battalion

19416.3

Brute Force

19145.3

Good Men and True

19227.0

Border Cafe

19377.0

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

19405.7

The Last Outlaw

19366.3

Happy Land

19437.1

The Ace of the Saddle

19195.0

For the Love of a Girl

19169.0

The Law and His Son

19138.0

Cheyenne's Pal

19174.5

The Master Cracksman

1914

A Nest Unfeathered

1914

Blue Streak McCoy

192010.0

The Crook and the Girl

1913

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

19135.7

The Law West of Tombstone

19386.0

A Gamble with Death

191310.0

An Unseen Enemy

19125.6

When Love Forgives

19138.0

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

19396.3

China's Little Devils

19456.0

McVeagh of the South Seas

19144.7

A Tender-Hearted Crook

1913

If We Only Knew

19135.0

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

1915

Without Honor

19325.4

The Vanishing Legion

19318.5

Three Mounted Men

19184.5

Sunset Pass

19338.0

The Informer

1912

Two Daughters of Eve

1912

The Painted Lady

19125.7

The Devil's Own

19169.0

A Dangerous Foe

19138.0

Behind the Lines

1916

My Son Is Guilty

19397.5

Wild Mustang

193510.0

The Devil Horse

19325.7

The Prairie Pirate

19259.0

The Scarlet Drop

19184.7

The Canceled Mortgage

191510.0

Powdersmoke Range

193510.0

I Was Meant for You

191310.0

A Cry for Help

1912

Born Reckless

19375.4

Bucking Broadway

19175.6

The Fox

19219.0

A Gambler's Honor

1913

Straight Shooting

19176.1

Marked Men

19196.5

Friends

19125.5

The Trail of '98

19286.1

The Flaming Forties

19249.0

Port of Missing Girls

19387.0

His Desperate Deed

19159.0

The Night Hawk

19248.0

A Knight of the Range

19165.0

Gentleman Joe

1910

Wild Women

19184.5

The Vengeance of Galora

1913

Love in an Apartment Hotel

1913

Canyon of the Fools

19238.0

A Double Winning

19159.0

The Left-Handed Man

1913

Thieves' Gold

19184.5

For Her Government

19139.0

The Way Out

1915

Under the Shadow of the Law

19136.0

Secret Love

1916

The Last of the Clintons

19357.0

The Gambler's I.O.U.

1915

The Honor of an Outlaw

1917

Ghost Town

19364.3

Bad Company

19315.0

The Miser's Legacy

1915

The Night Riders

1916

Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings

1915

Slide, Kelly, Slide

19278.0

Near To Earth

1913

The Unwelcome Guest

19135.0

Broken Ways

1913

Soft Shoes

19257.5

Blood Money

1917

The Three Godfathers

1916

Inside Information

19399.0

The Mysterious Outlaw

1917

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

19196.0

A Woman's Fool

19184.0

The Man from Red Gulch

19258.0

Aces Wild

19368.0

Just Jim

1915

A Gun Fightin' Gentleman

19196.0

Her Dormant Love

1915

The Outlaw and the Lady

1917

His Fireman's Conscience

1914

The Phantom Riders

19184.5

The Stolen Loaf

1913

The Heart of a Bandit

1915

Bullet Proof

19209.0

The Burglar’s Dilemma

19125.3

Desperate Trails

19217.0

The Van Nostrand Tiara

19139.0

Pirate Gold

1913

The Fighting Gringo

1917

Graft

1915

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

19124.5

A Little Journey

19278.0

The Jackals of a Great City

19169.0

The Border Patrol

192810.0

The Strong Man's Burden

19137.0

The Committee on Credentials

1916

All for Science

19137.0

The Tenderfoot's Money

19139.0

Six-Shooter Justice

1917

Satan Town

19267.0

The Switchtower

19135.0

The Frontier Trail

192610.0

The Golden Bullet

1917

Old King Coal

1916

Wagon Trail

19354.2

The Soul Herder

19174.5

The Miracle Baby

19239.0

Overland Red

19209.0

The Bad Man of Cheyenne

1917

The Bad Lands

19259.0

Bill Sharkey's Last Game

19101.8

The Love Transcendent

19157.0

The Work Habit

19139.0

'If Only' Jim

19208.0

Rustler's Paradise

19358.0

The Sheriff's Baby

19135.5

The Seventh Bandit

192610.0

A Frightful Blunder

19137.0

Driftin' Thru

19267.0

The Passing of Hell's Crown

1916

Border Devils

19326.0

The Almost Good Man

1917

A Misappropriated Turkey

1913

A 44-Calibre Mystery

1917

Human Stuff

192010.0

The Abandoned Well

1913

A Fight For Love

19196.0

Olaf—An Atom

1913

Beyond the Border

19259.0

Rider of the Law

19197.0

Burning Bridges

192810.0

The Conspiracy

19169.0

The Wrong Man

1917

Heredity

1912

The Drifter

19177.0

Crashin' Thru

192310.0

The Stopped Clock

19139.0

The Wedding Guest

19167.0

A Woman's Eyes

1916

My Hero

1912

The Railroad Monopoly

1916

Guilty

191610.0

A Chance Deception

1913

The Enemy's Baby

1913

An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

1913

Goin' Straight

1917

Hair-Trigger Burke

1917

The Insurance Swindlers

1916

The Power of the People

1916

Brothers

1913

A Day's Adventure

1915

Waifs

1914

The Sorrowful Shore

1913

The Harbor Transportation Trust

1916

America Saved from War

1916

Grinding Life Down

1916

The Texas Trail

19259.0

Silent Sanderson

19257.0