Harry Carey
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.
Movies starring Harry Carey (266)
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Himself
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Cheyenne Harry
Jack Wilson
Buck Lessen
Dick Glenning
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne Harry
Hair Trigger Burke
Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne Harry
Cheyenne Harry
Ramon Valentine
Dick Olney
Shifty
Tom Horn
Black La Rue
Tom Wayne
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
The Apache Kid
Tom Larnigan
Tom Larnigan
Fergus Derrick
Tom Larnigan
Tom Larnigan
Tom Larnigan
Tom Larnigan
Tom Larnigan
The New Foreman
Norris
The Converted Cracksman
The Bandit
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
Hogan - Leader Of The Crooks
2Nd Sportsman
Dave Dawson
Jackson - The Crook
The Sheriff
The Prospector
Burleigh
Ivan
The Foreman
Engineer Daily
The Adopted Son
The Young Man
Keene, The Detective
The Detective
Society Detective
The Thief
Manning
The Detective
The Crook
The Son-In-Law
The Convict
Second Criminal
A Prospector
The Bartender
First Tramp
The Gambler
The Cowpuncher
The Butler
Giuseppe, The Farmhand
Miller
In Crowd (Uncredited)
The Widowed Father
The Schemer
The 'Bull'
The Butler
The Gambler
The Sailor
The Left-Handed Thief
The Superintendent
The Husband
The Thief
Raffles
The Mother's Favorite Son
Third Thief
The Thief
Indian
The Neighbor's Friend
Bob Cole
Movies Made by Harry Carey (25)
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