![Image of Harry Carey](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/AvNDsYjkLgeFHbxGFIFyl6QRgeM.jpg)
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 | Film Fun | (archive footage) | 1955-08-19 |
Movie | Red River | Mr. Melville | 1948-08-26 |
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 | 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 | Parachute Battalion | Bill Richards | 1941-09-12 |
Movie | The Shepherd of the Hills | Daniel Howitt | 1941-07-18 |
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 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | President of the Senate | 1939-10-19 |
Movie | Street of Missing Men | Charles Putnam | 1939-04-24 |
Movie | My Son is Guilty | Police Officer Tim Kerry | 1939-12-28 |
Movie | Port of Missing Girls | Captain Josiah Storm | 1938-02-24 |
Movie | You and Me | Mr. Morris | 1938-06-01 |
Movie | Sky Giant | Col. Cornelius Stockton | 1938-07-22 |
Movie | The Law West of Tombstone | William 'Bill' Barker | 1938-11-18 |
Movie | King of Alcatraz | Captain Glennan | 1938-09-30 |
Movie | Gateway | Commissioner Nelson | 1938-08-05 |
Movie | Kid Galahad | Silver Jackson | 1937-05-29 |
Movie | Racing Lady | Tom Martin | 1937-01-12 |
Movie | Border Cafe | Tex Stevens | 1937-06-04 |
Movie | Annapolis Salute | Chief Martin | 1937-09-10 |
Movie | Born Reckless | Dad Martin | 1937-06-25 |
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 | Little Miss Nobody | John Russell | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | Ghost Town | Cheyenne Harry Morgan | 1936-02-15 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Shark Island | Commandant | 1936-02-28 |
Movie | Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Phil Yonne | 1936-10-06 |
Movie | The Last Outlaw | Dean Payton | 1936-06-19 |
Movie | Aces Wild | Cheyenne Harry Morgan | 1936-12-21 |
Movie | The Accusing Finger | Sen. Nash | 1936-11-17 |
Movie | Wagon Trail | Sheriff Clay Hartley | 1935-04-08 |
Movie | Barbary Coast | Jed Slocum | 1935-10-13 |
Movie | Powdersmoke Range | Tucson Smith | 1935-09-27 |
Movie | The Last of the Clintons | Trigger Carson | 1935-11-12 |
Movie | Wild Mustang | Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton | 1935-10-21 |
Movie | The Film Parade | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1933-01-01 |
Movie | The Thundering Herd | Clark Sprague | 1933-03-01 |
Movie | Sunset Pass | John Hesbitt | 1933-05-26 |
Movie | Man of the Forest | Jim Gayner | 1933-08-24 |
Movie | Law and Order | Ed Brandt | 1932-02-09 |
Movie | Border Devils | Jim Gray | 1932-04-03 |
Movie | Without Honors | Pete Marlan | 1932-01-02 |
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 | The Border Patrol | Bill Storm | 1928-12-23 |
Movie | Burning Bridges | Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely | 1928-09-30 |
Movie | A Little Journey | Alexander Smith | 1927-01-01 |
Movie | Slide, Kelly, Slide | Tom Munson | 1927-03-12 |
Movie | Satan Town | Bill Scott | 1926-08-15 |
Movie | Driftin' Thru | Daniel Brown | 1926-02-21 |
Movie | The Seventh Bandit | David Scanlon | 1926-04-18 |
Movie | Soft Shoes | Pat Halahan | 1925-01-01 |
Movie | Beyond the Border | Bob Smith | 1925-05-30 |
Movie | The Prairie Pirate | Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney | 1925-10-10 |
Movie | The Bad Lands | Patrick Angus O'Toole | 1925-07-15 |
Movie | The Man from Red Gulch | Alexander 'Sandy' Morton | 1925-12-13 |
Movie | The Night Hawk | 'The Hawk' | 1924-02-17 |
Movie | The Lightning Rider | Phlip Morgan | 1924-05-18 |
Movie | Roaring Rails | Big Bill Benson | 1924-09-20 |
Movie | The Flaming Forties | Bill Jones | 1924-12-21 |
Movie | Canyon of the Fools | Bob | 1923-01-21 |
Movie | Man to Man | Steve Packard | 1922-03-20 |
Movie | Good Men and True | J. Wesley Pringle | 1922-11-05 |
Movie | The Kickback | White Horse Harry | 1922-06-30 |
Movie | The Wallop | John Wesley Pringle | 1921-05-09 |
Movie | The Freeze-Out | Ohio, the Stranger | 1921-04-09 |
Movie | The Fox | Ol' Santa Fe | 1921-07-24 |
Movie | Overland Red | Overland Red | 1920-03-22 |
Movie | 'If Only' Jim | Jim Golden | 1920-07-01 |
Movie | Bullet Proof | Pierre Winton | 1920-05-03 |
Movie | Blue Streak McCoy | Job McCoy | 1920-08-23 |
Movie | West Is West | Dick Rainboldt | 1920-11-21 |
Movie | Bare Fists | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-05-05 |
Movie | A Fight For Love | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-03-24 |
Movie | Roped | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-01-03 |
Movie | Riders of Vengeance | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-06-09 |
Movie | The Ace of the Saddle | Cheyenne Harry Henderson | 1919-08-18 |
Movie | The Outcasts of Poker Flat | Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst | 1919-06-29 |
Movie | Rider of the Law | Jim Kyneton | 1919-11-03 |
Movie | A Gun Fightin' Gentleman | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-11-29 |
Movie | Marked Men | Cheyenne Harry | 1919-12-21 |
Movie | Wild Women | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-02-25 |
Movie | The Phantom Riders | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-01-28 |
Movie | The Scarlet Drop | Harry Ridge | 1918-04-22 |
Movie | Thieves' Gold | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-03-18 |
Movie | Hell Bent | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-07-05 |
Movie | Three Mounted Men | Cheyenne Harry | 1918-10-06 |
Movie | A Woman's Fool | Lin McLean | 1918-08-17 |
Movie | A 44-Calibre Mystery | Sheriff Cheyenne Harry | 1917-05-22 |
Movie | The Golden Bullet | Jack | 1917-06-26 |
Movie | The Wrong Man | Jack Wilson | 1917-07-07 |
Movie | Goin' Straight | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-03-24 |
Movie | Blood Money | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-01-06 |
Movie | The Fighting Gringo | William 'Red' Saunders | 1917-03-26 |
Movie | Hair-Trigger Burke | Hair Trigger Burke | 1917-04-10 |
Movie | A Marked Man | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-10-29 |
Movie | The Soul Herder | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-08-07 |
Movie | The Secret Man | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-09-30 |
Movie | Bucking Broadway | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-12-24 |
Movie | Cheyenne's Pal | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-08-13 |
Movie | Straight Shooting | Cheyenne Harry | 1917-08-27 |
Movie | The Three Godfathers | Bob Sangster | 1916-06-18 |
Movie | The Wedding Guest | The Squarest Sheriff Alive | 1916-05-27 |
Movie | Old King Coal | Tom Larnigan | 1916-01-29 |
Movie | For the Love of a Girl | Black La Rue | 1916-07-29 |
Movie | The Railroad Monopoly | Tom Larnigan | 1916-01-15 |
Movie | A Knight of the Range | Cheyenne Harry | 1916-02-07 |
Movie | The Devil's Own | Shifty | 1916-08-24 |
Movie | Guilty | Ramon Valentine | 1916-11-17 |
Movie | Love's Lariat | Sky High | 1916-08-07 |
Movie | The Conspiracy | Dick Olney | 1916-10-21 |
Movie | Behind the Lines | Dr. Ralph Hamlin | 1916-09-11 |
Movie | A Woman's Eyes | Tom Horn | 1916-08-17 |
Movie | Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings | Miles Rand | 1915-09-27 |
Movie | Waifs | 1914-01-17 | |
Movie | Judith of Bethulia | Assyrian Traitor | 1914-03-08 |
Movie | McVeagh of the South Seas | Cyril Bruce McVeagh | 1914-11-02 |
Movie | Brute Force | In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited) | 1914-04-24 |
Movie | The Unwelcome Guest | The Sheriff | 1913-03-15 |
Movie | Broken Ways | The Sheriff | 1913-03-08 |
Movie | Oil and Water | The Stage Manager / At Dinner | 1913-02-10 |
Movie | The Hero of Little Italy | Tony | 1913-04-03 |
Movie | The Telephone Girl and the Lady | The Thief | 1913-01-06 |
Movie | Red Hicks Defies the World | In Crowd (uncredited) | 1913-06-09 |
Movie | Madonna of the Storm | 1913-10-25 | |
Movie | The Strong Man's Burden | Bob - the Younger Brother | 1913-09-05 |
Movie | Black and White | 1913-08-27 | |
Movie | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | 2nd Clan Member | 1912-10-03 |
Movie | So Near, Yet So Far | A Thief | 1912-09-29 |
Movie | An Unseen Enemy | The Safecracker | 1912-09-09 |
Movie | The One She Loved | The Neighbor's Friend | 1912-10-21 |
Movie | Friends | Bob Kyne - the Prospector | 1912-09-22 |
Movie | The Informer | The Confederate Corporal | 1912-11-21 |
Movie | A Cry for Help | The Thief | 1912-12-23 |
Movie | The Burglar’s Dilemma | Older Crook | 1912-12-16 |
Movie | Brutality | At Theatre | 1912-12-02 |
Movie | The Musketeers of Pig Alley | Snapper's Sidekick | 1912-10-31 |
Movie | The Painted Lady | At Ice Cream Festival | 1912-10-24 |