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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 16, 1878
Died
September 21, 1947
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Henry DeWitt Carey II
- H.D. Carey
- Harry D. Carey
- Harry Carey Sr.
Harry Carey
1.2 Popularity
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."
Known For
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(archive footage)
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000
0.0
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
Legends of the West
1992
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
6.9
(archive footage)
Directed by John Ford
1971
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4.0
(archive footage)
Film Fun
1955
6.6
Head Judge at County Fair
So Dear to My Heart
1948
7.3
Mr. Melville
Red River
1948
6.1
Doc J. Reid
The Sea of Grass
1947
6.4
Marshal Wistful McClintock
Angel and the Badman
1947
6.3
Lem Smoot
Duel in the Sun
1946
Credits
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
as (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Legends of the West
as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
1992
0.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
Directed by John Ford
as (archive footage)
1971
6.9
🎬
Film Fun
as (archive footage)
1955
4.0
So Dear to My Heart
as Head Judge at County Fair
1948
6.6
Red River
as Mr. Melville
1948
7.3
The Sea of Grass
as Doc J. Reid
1947
6.1
Angel and the Badman
as Marshal Wistful McClintock
1947
6.4
Duel in the Sun
as Lem Smoot
1946
6.3
China's Little Devils
as Doc Temple
1945
4.0
The Great Moment
as Professor John C. Warren
1944
5.6
Happy Land
as Edward "Gramp" Marsh
1943
6.2
Air Force
as Crew Chief
1943
6.5
The Spoilers
as Dextry
1942
6.2
Among the Living
as Dr. Ben Saunders
1941
6.0
Sundown
as Dewey
1941
5.4
Parachute Battalion
as Bill Richards
1941
5.5
The Shepherd of the Hills
as Daniel Howitt
1941
6.5
They Knew What They Wanted
as The Doctor
1940
5.8
Beyond Tomorrow
as George Vale Melton
1940
5.9
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
as Captain Bailey
1940
4.0
My Son Is Guilty
as Police Officer Tim Kerry
1939
7.5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as President of the Senate
1939
7.8
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
1939
0.0
Inside Information
as Captain Bill Dugan
1939
0.0
Street of Missing Men
as Charles Putnam
1939
9.0
Code of the Streets
as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
1939
7.0
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
as P.G. Delano
1939
5.0
The Law West of Tombstone
as William 'Bill' Barker
1938
4.0
King of Alcatraz
as Captain Glennan
1938
5.7
Gateway
as Commissioner Nelson
1938
6.5
Sky Giant
as Col. Cornelius Stockton
1938
4.7
You and Me
as Mr. Morris
1938
6.5
Port of Missing Girls
as Captain Josiah Storm
1938
0.0
Danger Patrol
as Sam "Easy" Street
1937
5.3
Annapolis Salute
as Chief Martin
1937
6.0
Souls at Sea
as Captain of the William Brown
1937
6.3
Born Reckless
as Dad Martin
1937
5.1
Border Cafe
as Tex Stevens
1937
6.3
Kid Galahad
as Silver Jackson
1937
7.0
Lest We Forget
as Himself
1937
0.0
Racing Lady
as Tom Martin
1937
5.3
Aces Wild
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936
0.0
The Accusing Finger
as Sen. Nash
1936
4.7
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Phil Yonne
1936
6.4
The Last Outlaw
as Dean Payton
1936
5.5
Little Miss Nobody
as John Russell
1936
6.0
Sutter's Gold
as Kit Carson
1936
0.0
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as Commandant
1936
6.8
Ghost Town
as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936
3.0
The Last of the Clintons
as Trigger Carson
1935
5.5
Wild Mustang
as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
1935
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Barbary Coast
as Jed Slocum
1935
6.5
Powdersmoke Range
as Tucson Smith
1935
0.0
Rustler's Paradise
as Cheyenne Kincaid
1935
0.0
Wagon Trail
as Sheriff Clay Hartley
1935
3.2
Man of the Forest
as Jim Gayner
1933
5.5
Sunset Pass
as John Hesbitt
1933
6.0
Buffalo Stampede
as Clark Sprague
1933
3.3
The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
0.0
The Devil Horse
as Bob Norton / Roberts
1932
4.0
The Night Rider
as John Brown / Jim Blake
1932
0.0
The Last of the Mohicans
as Hawkeye
1932
5.8
Border Devils
as Jim Gray
1932
5.3
Law and Order
as Ed Brandt
1932
4.9
Without Honor
as Pete Marlan
1932
5.3
Cavalier of the West
as Captain John Allister
1931
4.8
Bad Company
as McBaine
1931
4.6
The Vanishing Legion
as 'Happy' Cardigan
1931
9.0
Trader Horn
as Aloysius "Trader" Horn
1931
5.3
The Border Patrol
as Bill Storm
1928
0.0
Burning Bridges
as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
1928
0.0
The Trail of '98
as Jack Locasto
1928
5.9
Slide, Kelly, Slide
as Tom Munson
1927
0.0
A Little Journey
as Alexander Smith
1927
0.0
Satan Town
as Bill Scott
1926
0.0
The Frontier Trail
as Jim Cardigan
1926
0.0
The Seventh Bandit
as David Scanlon
1926
0.0
Driftin' Thru
as Daniel Brown
1926
0.0
The Man from Red Gulch
as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
1925
0.0
The Prairie Pirate
as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
1925
0.0
The Bad Lands
as Patrick Angus O'Toole
1925
0.0
The Texas Trail
as Pete Grainger
1925
0.0
Beyond the Border
as Bob Smith
1925
0.0
Silent Sanderson
as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
1925
0.0
Soft Shoes
as Pat Halahan
1925
7.0
The Flaming Forties
as Bill Jones
1924
0.0
Roaring Rails
as Big Bill Benson
1924
6.8
Tiger Thompson
as Tiger Thompson
1924
0.0
The Lightning Rider
as Phlip Morgan
1924
0.0
The Night Hawk
as 'The Hawk'
1924
0.0
The Miracle Baby
as Neil Allison
1923
0.0
Desert Driven
as Bob
1923
0.0
Crashin' Thru
as Blake
1923
0.0
Canyon of the Fools
as Bob
1923
0.0
Good Men and True
as J. Wesley Pringle
1922
0.0
The Kickback
as White Horse Harry
1922
0.0
Man to Man
as Steve Packard
1922
0.0
The Fox
as Ol' Santa Fe
1921
0.0
Desperate Trails
as Bart Carson
1921
4.0
The Wallop
as John Wesley Pringle
1921
4.0
The Freeze-Out
as Ohio, the Stranger
1921
4.0
Hearts Up
as David Brent
1921
0.0
West Is West
as Dick Rainboldt
1920
0.0
Sundown Slim
as Sundown Slim
1920
0.0
Blue Streak McCoy
as Job McCoy
1920
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'If Only' Jim
as Jim Golden
1920
0.0
Human Stuff
as James 'Jim' Pierce
1920
0.0
Bullet Proof
as Pierre Winton
1920
0.0
Overland Red
as Overland Red
1920
0.0
Marked Men
as Cheyenne Harry
1919
5.0
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
as Cheyenne Harry
1919
5.0
Rider of the Law
as Jim Kyneton
1919
5.0
The Ace of the Saddle
as Cheyenne Harry Henderson
1919
5.0
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
as Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
1919
4.0
Riders of Vengeance
as Cheyenne Harry
1919
3.0
Bare Fists
as Cheyenne Harry
1919
5.0
A Fight For Love
as Cheyenne Harry
1919
5.0
Roped
as Cheyenne Harry
1919
5.0
Three Mounted Men
as Cheyenne Harry
1918
4.5
A Woman's Fool
as Lin McLean
1918
4.0
Hell Bent
as Cheyenne Harry
1918
5.3
The Scarlet Drop
as Harry Ridge
1918
4.7
Thieves' Gold
as Cheyenne Harry
1918
4.5
Wild Women
as Cheyenne Harry
1918
4.5
The Phantom Riders
as Cheyenne Harry
1918
4.5
Bucking Broadway
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
5.5
A Marked Man
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
4.5
The Secret Man
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
5.0
Straight Shooting
as "Cheyenne" Harry
1917
6.0
Cheyenne's Pal
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
4.5
The Soul Herder
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
4.5
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Six-Shooter Justice
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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The Wrong Man
as Jack Wilson
1917
0.0
The Golden Bullet
as Jack
1917
0.0
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The Mysterious Outlaw
as Buck Lessen
1917
0.0
The Almost Good Man
as Dick Glenning
1917
0.0
A 44-Calibre Mystery
as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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The Honor of an Outlaw
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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Hair-Trigger Burke
as Hair Trigger Burke
1917
0.0
The Fighting Gringo
as William 'Red' Saunders
1917
0.0
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Goin' Straight
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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The Drifter
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
The Outlaw and the Lady
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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The Bad Man of Cheyenne
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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Blood Money
as Cheyenne Harry
1917
0.0
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Guilty
as Ramon Valentine
1916
0.0
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The Conspiracy
as Dick Olney
1916
0.0
Behind the Lines
as Dr. Ralph Hamlin
1916
0.0
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The Devil's Own
as Shifty
1916
0.0
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A Woman's Eyes
as Tom Horn
1916
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Love's Lariat
as Sky High
1916
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For the Love of a Girl
as Black La Rue
1916
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The Committee on Credentials
as Ballaret Bill
1916
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The Jackals of a Great City
as Tom Wayne
1916
0.0
The Three Godfathers
as Bob Sangster
1916
0.0
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The Wedding Guest
as The Squarest Sheriff Alive
1916
0.0
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The Passing of Hell's Crown
as Blaze
1916
0.0
The Night Riders
as The Apache Kid
1916
0.0
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The Harbor Transportation Trust
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
A Knight of the Range
as Cheyenne Harry
1916
5.0
🎬
The Insurance Swindlers
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
🎬
Secret Love
as Fergus Derrick
1916
0.0
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Old King Coal
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
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America Saved from War
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
🎬
The Railroad Monopoly
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
🎬
Grinding Life Down
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
🎬
The Power of the People
as Tom Larnigan
1916
0.0
Graft
as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
1915
0.0
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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
as Miles Rand
1915
0.0
Just Jim
as Jim
1915
0.0
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As It Happened
as The New Foreman
1915
0.0
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Old Offenders
as Norris
1915
0.0
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Her Convert
as The Converted Cracksman
1915
0.0
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The Way Out
as The Bandit
1915
0.0
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Her Dormant Love
as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
1915
0.0
🎬
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
as Crook
1915
0.0
The Canceled Mortgage
as 1st Road Agent
1915
0.0
🎬
A Day's Adventure
as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
1915
0.0
🎬
A Double Winning
as 2nd Sportsman
1915
0.0
🎬
The Gambler's I.O.U.
as Dave Dawson
1915
0.0
🎬
The Miser's Legacy
as Jackson - The Crook
1915
0.0
🎬
The Sheriff's Dilemma
as The Sheriff
1915
0.0
🎬
The Love Transcendent
as The Prospector
1915
0.0
🎬
His Desperate Deed
as Burleigh
1915
0.0
The Heart of a Bandit
as Texas Pete - the Bandit
1915
0.0
McVeagh of the South Seas
as Cyril Bruce McVeagh
1914
4.7
The Master Cracksman
as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
1914
0.0
Brute Force
as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
1914
5.3
🎬
Her Hand
as Ivan
1914
0.0
Judith of Bethulia
as Assyrian Traitor
1914
6.1
🎬
Her Father's Silent Partner
1914
0.0
🎬
A Nest Unfeathered
as The Foreman
1914
0.0
🎬
His Fireman's Conscience
as Engineer Daily
1914
0.0
🎬
Waifs
1914
0.0
Concentration
as First Son
1914
0.0
🎬
The Abandoned Well
as The Adopted Son
1913
0.0
🎬
For Her Government
1913
0.0
🎬
All for Science
as The Young Man
1913
0.0
🎬
The Detective's Stratagem
as Keene, the Detective
1913
0.0
🎬
The Stopped Clock
as The Detective
1913
0.0
🎬
Madonna of the Storm
1913
0.0
🎬
The Van Nostrand Tiara
as Society Detective
1913
0.0
🎬
A Tender-Hearted Crook
as The Thief
1913
0.0
🎬
The Law and His Son
as Manning
1913
0.0
🎬
The Stolen Treaty
as The Detective
1913
0.0
🎬
A Modest Hero
1913
0.0
The Strong Man's Burden
as Bob - the Younger Brother
1913
5.0
🎬
Black and White
1913
0.0
🎬
The Crook and the Girl
as The Crook
1913
0.0
🎬
The Work Habit
as The Son-in-Law
1913
0.0
🎬
Under the Shadow of the Law
as The Convict
1913
6.0
🎬
When Love Forgives
as Second Criminal
1913
0.0
🎬
I Was Meant for You
as Luke
1913
0.0
🎬
The Vengeance of Galora
as A Prospector
1913
0.0
🎬
A Misappropriated Turkey
as The Bartender
1913
0.0
🎬
The Mirror
as First Tramp
1913
0.0
🎬
A Gambler's Honor
as The Gambler
1913
0.0
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A Gamble with Death
as The Cowpuncher
1913
0.0
🎬
In Diplomatic Circles
as The Butler
1913
0.0
The Switchtower
1913
5.0
🎬
The Well
as Giuseppe, the Farmhand
1913
0.0
🎬
The Enemy's Baby
as Miller
1913
0.0
🎬
Red Hicks Defies the World
as In Crowd (uncredited)
1913
0.0
🎬
The Sorrowful Shore
as The Widowed Father
1913
0.0
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The Ranchero's Revenge
as The Schemer
1913
0.0
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A Dangerous Foe
as The 'Bull'
1913
0.0
Olaf—An Atom
as Olaf, an Atom
1913
0.0
🎬
The Stolen Loaf
as The Butler
1913
0.0
🎬
The Tenderfoot's Money
as The Gambler
1913
0.0
If We Only Knew
as The Sailor
1913
0.0
🎬
The Left-Handed Man
as The Left-Handed Thief
1913
0.0
🎬
A Frightful Blunder
as The Superintendent
1913
0.0
🎬
The Stolen Bride
as The Husband
1913
0.0
🎬
The Hero of Little Italy
as Tony
1913
0.0
The Sheriff's Baby
as Second Bandit
1913
5.0
Near To Earth
1913
0.0
The Unwelcome Guest
as The Sheriff
1913
5.0
Broken Ways
as The Sheriff
1913
0.0
🎬
The Wrong Bottle
1913
0.0
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Love in an Apartment Hotel
as The Thief
1913
0.0
🎬
A Chance Deception
as Raffles
1913
0.0
Oil and Water
as The Stage Manager / At Dinner
1913
0.0
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Brothers
as The Mother's Favorite Son
1913
0.0
🎬
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
as Third Thief
1913
0.0
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Pirate Gold
1913
0.0
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
as The Thief
1913
5.7
A Cry for Help
as The Thief
1912
0.0
The Burglar’s Dilemma
as Older Crook
1912
5.3
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My Hero
as Indian
1912
0.0
Brutality
as At Theatre
1912
0.0
The Informer
as The Confederate Corporal
1912
0.0
Heredity
as The White Renegade Father
1912
0.0
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
as Snapper's Sidekick
1912
6.2
The Painted Lady
as At Ice Cream Festival
1912
5.5
The One She Loved
as The Neighbor's Friend
1912
0.0
In the Aisles of the Wild
as Bob Cole
1912
0.0
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
as 2nd Clan Member
1912
4.5
So Near, Yet So Far
as A Thief
1912
5.9
Friends
as Bob Kyne - the Prospector
1912
5.5
Two Daughters of Eve
as In Audience
1912
0.0
An Unseen Enemy
as The Safecracker
1912
5.6
🎬
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910
1.8
🎬
Gentleman Joe
1910
0.0