Harry Carey

Acting · 1.3 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

Her Convert

1915

Angel and the Badman

19476.4

Directed by John Ford

19717.0

Bare Fists

19195.0

The Spoilers

19426.2

Air Force

19436.5

So Dear to My Heart

19486.6

Kid Galahad

19377.1

Desert Driven

19238.0

Buffalo Stampede

19334.1

As It Happened

1915

The Shepherd of the Hills

19416.6

Racing Lady

19376.0

Legends of the West

1992

The Prisoner of Shark Island

19366.9

Barbary Coast

19356.4

The Stolen Bride

1913

Trader Horn

19315.4

You and Me

19386.6

Film Fun

19555.3

Hearts Up

19218.0

Sundown Slim

19208.0

Hell Bent

19185.6

The Kickback

19229.0

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

The Movie Album

19327.5

The Lightning Rider

19249.0

Annapolis Salute

19376.7

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

200010.0

Land of Liberty

19399.0

The Sea of Grass

19476.1

Street of Missing Men

19398.0

Tiger Thompson

19249.0

Concentration

1914

Judith of Bethulia

19146.1

Law and Order

19325.0

The Mirror

1913

Man of the Forest

19336.3

Oil and Water

1913

The Accusing Finger

19365.8

Red Hicks Defies the World

191310.0

Roped

19197.0

Souls at Sea

19376.5

The Last of the Mohicans

19326.8

Sundown

19415.6

Little Miss Nobody

19367.5

The Hero of Little Italy

1913

The Night Rider

19328.0

The Great Moment

19445.8

Sutter's Gold

19367.0

They Knew What They Wanted

19406.0

Among the Living

19416.1

Beyond Tomorrow

19406.1

Old Offenders

1915

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

19366.7

Madonna of the Storm

1913

Border Cafe

19377.0

A Marked Man

19174.5

Man to Man

19227.0

Love's Lariat

1916

Cavalier of the West

19315.1

Powdersmoke Range

193510.0

Roaring Rails

19246.9

West Is West

19207.0

The One She Loved

1912

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

19126.2

Her Hand

19148.0

Brutality

1912

So Near, Yet So Far

19125.9

The Detective's Stratagem

19137.0

Danger Patrol

19376.4

Happy Land

19437.1

Riders of Vengeance

19196.5

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

19396.3

The Ace of the Saddle

19195.0

The Well

1913

A Gun Fightin' Gentleman

19196.0

Sky Giant

19385.3

The Sheriff's Dilemma

1915

A Modest Hero

1913

In the Aisles of the Wild

1912

The Freeze-Out

19217.0

The Last Outlaw

19366.3

Straight Shooting

19176.1

The Devil's Own

19169.0

The Stolen Treaty

1913

In Diplomatic Circles

191310.0

The Devil Horse

19325.7

Code of the Streets

19397.7

Cheyenne's Pal

19174.5

Gateway

19387.4

The Secret Man

19175.0

Without Honor

19325.4

The Law and His Son

19138.0

The Wrong Bottle

1913

The Fox

19219.0

Good Men and True

19227.0

The Master Cracksman

1914

Ghost Town

19364.3

The Canceled Mortgage

191510.0

Lest We Forget

19377.0

Brute Force

19145.3

The Prairie Pirate

19259.0

Black and White

1913

Gentleman Joe

1910

The Stolen Loaf

1913

King of Alcatraz

19386.0

Love in an Apartment Hotel

1913

The Vanishing Legion

19318.5

A Nest Unfeathered

1914

The Night Hawk

19248.0

The Film Parade

19338.0

Port of Missing Girls

19387.0

Canyon of the Fools

19238.0

Heredity

1912

The Scarlet Drop

19184.7

McVeagh of the South Seas

19144.7

Behind the Lines

1916

The Law West of Tombstone

19386.0

The Ranchero's Revenge

1913

For the Love of a Girl

19169.0

The Trail of '98

19286.1

A Gamble with Death

191310.0

Wild Mustang

193510.0

Three Mounted Men

19184.5

Sunset Pass

19338.0

When Love Forgives

19138.0

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

19405.7

The Phantom Riders

19184.5

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

1915

Parachute Battalion

19416.3

China's Little Devils

19456.0

A Cry for Help

1912

The Vengeance of Galora

1913

The Gambler's I.O.U.

1915

The Outlaw and the Lady

1917

The Informer

1912

Two Daughters of Eve

1912

A Woman's Fool

19184.0

Friends

19125.5

Soft Shoes

19257.5

Bucking Broadway

19175.6

The Frontier Trail

192610.0

The Love Transcendent

19157.0

My Son Is Guilty

19397.5

Blood Money

1917

The Painted Lady

19125.7

Satan Town

19267.0

Thieves' Gold

19184.5

His Desperate Deed

19159.0

The Van Nostrand Tiara

19139.0

The Crook and the Girl

1913

I Was Meant for You

191310.0

A Tender-Hearted Crook

1913

Blue Streak McCoy

192010.0

An Unseen Enemy

19125.6

The Switchtower

19135.0

A Double Winning

19159.0

The Last of the Clintons

19357.0

Secret Love

1916

The Bad Lands

19259.0

For Her Government

19139.0

Under the Shadow of the Law

19136.0

The Flaming Forties

19249.0

A Gambler's Honor

1913

The Bad Man of Cheyenne

1917

A Little Journey

19278.0

Graft

1915

The Wallop

19216.5

Born Reckless

19375.4

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

19135.7

If We Only Knew

19135.0

The Heart of a Bandit

1915

Bill Sharkey's Last Game

19101.8

Pirate Gold

1913

The Miracle Baby

19239.0

Desperate Trails

19217.0

The Man from Red Gulch

19258.0

The Strong Man's Burden

19137.0

His Fireman's Conscience

1914

Border Devils

19326.0

The Way Out

1915

The Seventh Bandit

192610.0

The Passing of Hell's Crown

1916

Hair-Trigger Burke

1917

Wild Women

19184.5

The Mysterious Outlaw

1917

Her Dormant Love

1915

The Abandoned Well

1913

All for Science

19137.0

Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings

1915

Broken Ways

1913

Bad Company

19315.0

The Honor of an Outlaw

1917

The Tenderfoot's Money

19139.0

The Texas Trail

19259.0

Slide, Kelly, Slide

19278.0

Goin' Straight

1917

A Frightful Blunder

19137.0

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

19196.0

The Left-Handed Man

1913

A Knight of the Range

19165.0

The Miser's Legacy

1915

The Unwelcome Guest

19135.0

The Soul Herder

19174.5

Inside Information

19399.0

Old King Coal

1916

Overland Red

19209.0

Six-Shooter Justice

1917

The Committee on Credentials

1916

The Burglar’s Dilemma

19125.3

Marked Men

19196.5

A Dangerous Foe

19138.0

Burning Bridges

192810.0

Just Jim

1915

Bullet Proof

19209.0

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

19124.5

The Work Habit

19139.0

The Drifter

19177.0

Near To Earth

1913

The Jackals of a Great City

19169.0

The Enemy's Baby

1913

Human Stuff

192010.0

The Wrong Man

1917

Wagon Trail

19354.2

Aces Wild

19368.0

Beyond the Border

19259.0

Olaf—An Atom

1913

A Fight For Love

19196.0

The Night Riders

1916

Brothers

1913

Rider of the Law

19197.0

My Hero

1912

The Border Patrol

192810.0

Guilty

191610.0

Crashin' Thru

192310.0

The Golden Bullet

1917

The Stopped Clock

19139.0

The Three Godfathers

1916

The Fighting Gringo

1917

A Misappropriated Turkey

1913

Driftin' Thru

19267.0

The Almost Good Man

1917

A 44-Calibre Mystery

1917

The Conspiracy

19169.0

'If Only' Jim

19208.0

Rustler's Paradise

19358.0

A Woman's Eyes

1916

A Chance Deception

1913

The Insurance Swindlers

1916

The Sorrowful Shore

1913

An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

1913

The Railroad Monopoly

1916

The Wedding Guest

19167.0

The Sheriff's Baby

19135.5

A Day's Adventure

1915

Silent Sanderson

19257.0

Waifs

1914

The Harbor Transportation Trust

1916

Grinding Life Down

1916

America Saved from War

1916

The Power of the People

1916