Personal Info
Birth date
1878-01-16 (147 Years)
Day of death
1947-09-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
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
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."
Filmography
Red River
7.347
Overview:
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.849
Overview:
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.Angel and the Badman
6.4
Overview:
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.Beyond Tomorrow
5.985
Overview:
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.3 Godfathers
6.74
Overview:
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.Duel in the Sun
6.344
Overview:
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.You and Me
6.679
Overview:
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.Barbary Coast
6.565
Overview:
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.So Dear to My Heart
6.5
Overview:
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.The Prisoner of Shark Island
6.8
Overview:
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.Air Force
6.422
Overview:
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.The Shepherd of the Hills
6.6
Overview:
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.Bucking Broadway
5.5
Overview:
On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.The Spoilers
6.2
Overview:
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.Kid Galahad
7
Overview:
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.Sundown
5.4
Overview:
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.The Sea of Grass
6.3
Overview:
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.The Law West of Tombstone
4
Overview:
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6
Overview:
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.Buffalo Stampede
3.3
Overview:
A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.The Great Moment
5.8
Overview:
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.Gateway
6.5
Overview:
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.Judith of Bethulia
6.177
Overview:
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.Man of the Forest
5.5
Overview:
Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.They Knew What They Wanted
5.55
Overview:
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
4.5
Overview:
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood sweethearts. His elder brother was considered the bad man and dead shot of the hills. The younger brother has been living in the valley for a long time and returns home to his family. He is now refined, educated, and, of course, a revelation to the little girl, who, though betrothed to the elder brother, is strongly attracted by him. Hence there is a renewal of childhood affection which the elder brother does not take kindly to.Law and Order
4
Overview:
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.Acting
2000Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs as (archive footage)
1992Legends of the West as Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1971Directed by John Ford as (archive footage)
1955Film Fun as (archive footage)
1948So Dear to My Heart as Head Judge at County Fair
1948Red River as Mr. Melville
1947The Sea of Grass as Doc J. Reid
1947Angel and the Badman as Marshal Wistful McClintock
1946Duel in the Sun as Lem Smoot
1945China's Little Devils as Doc Temple
1944The Great Moment as Professor John C. Warren
1943Happy Land as Edward "Gramp" Marsh
1943Air Force as Crew Chief
1942The Spoilers as Dextry
1941Among the Living as Dr. Ben Saunders
1941Sundown as Dewey
1941Parachute Battalion as Bill Richards
1941The Shepherd of the Hills as Daniel Howitt
1940They Knew What They Wanted as The Doctor
1940Beyond Tomorrow as George Vale Melton
1940Outside the Three-Mile Limit as Captain Bailey
1939My Son Is Guilty as Police Officer Tim Kerry
1939Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate
1939Land of Liberty as (archive footage)
1939Inside Information as Captain Bill Dugan
1939Street of Missing Men as Charles Putnam
1939Code of the Streets as Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
1939Burn 'Em Up O'Connor as P.G. Delano
1938The Law West of Tombstone as William 'Bill' Barker
1938King of Alcatraz as Captain Glennan
1938Gateway as Commissioner Nelson
1938Sky Giant as Col. Cornelius Stockton
1938You and Me as Mr. Morris
1938Port of Missing Girls as Captain Josiah Storm
1937Danger Patrol as Sam "Easy" Street
1937Annapolis Salute as Chief Martin
1937Souls at Sea as Captain of the William Brown
1937Born Reckless as Dad Martin
1937Border Cafe as Tex Stevens
1937Kid Galahad as Silver Jackson
1937Lest We Forget as Himself
1937Racing Lady as Tom Martin
1936Aces Wild as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936The Accusing Finger as Sen. Nash
1936Valiant Is the Word for Carrie as Phil Yonne
1936The Last Outlaw as Dean Payton
1936Little Miss Nobody as John Russell
1936Sutter's Gold as Kit Carson
1936The Prisoner of Shark Island as Commandant
1936Ghost Town as Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1935The Last of the Clintons as Trigger Carson
1935Wild Mustang as Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
1935Barbary Coast as Jed Slocum
1935Powdersmoke Range as Tucson Smith
1935Rustler's Paradise as Cheyenne Kincaid
1935Wagon Trail as Sheriff Clay Hartley
1933Man of the Forest as Jim Gayner
1933Sunset Pass as John Hesbitt
1933Buffalo Stampede as Clark Sprague
1933The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1932The Devil Horse as Bob Norton / Roberts
1932The Night Rider as John Brown / Jim Blake
1932The Last of the Mohicans as Hawkeye
1932Border Devils as Jim Gray
1932Law and Order as Ed Brandt
1932Without Honor as Pete Marlan
1931Cavalier of the West as Captain John Allister
1931Bad Company as McBaine
1931The Vanishing Legion as 'Happy' Cardigan
1931Trader Horn as Aloysius "Trader" Horn
1928The Border Patrol as Bill Storm
1928Burning Bridges as Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
1928The Trail of '98 as Jack Locasto
1927Slide, Kelly, Slide as Tom Munson
1927A Little Journey as Alexander Smith
1926Satan Town as Bill Scott
1926The Frontier Trail as Jim Cardigan
1926The Seventh Bandit as David Scanlon
1926Driftin' Thru as Daniel Brown
1925The Man from Red Gulch as Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
1925The Prairie Pirate as Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
1925The Bad Lands as Patrick Angus O'Toole
1925The Texas Trail as Pete Grainger
1925Beyond the Border as Bob Smith
1925Silent Sanderson as Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
1925Soft Shoes as Pat Halahan
1924The Flaming Forties as Bill Jones
1924Roaring Rails as Big Bill Benson
1924Tiger Thompson as Tiger Thompson
1924The Lightning Rider as Phlip Morgan
1924The Night Hawk as 'The Hawk'
1923The Miracle Baby as Neil Allison
1923Desert Driven as Bob
1923Crashin' Thru as Blake
1923Canyon of the Fools as Bob
1922Good Men and True as J. Wesley Pringle
1922The Kickback as White Horse Harry
1922Man to Man as Steve Packard
1921The Fox as Ol' Santa Fe
1921Desperate Trails as Bart Carson
1921The Wallop as John Wesley Pringle
1921The Freeze-Out as Ohio, the Stranger
1921Hearts Up as David Brent
1920West Is West as Dick Rainboldt
1920Sundown Slim as Sundown Slim
1920Blue Streak McCoy as Job McCoy
1920'If Only' Jim as Jim Golden
1920Human Stuff as James 'Jim' Pierce
1920Bullet Proof as Pierre Winton
1920Overland Red as Overland Red
1919Marked Men as Cheyenne Harry
1919A Gun Fightin' Gentleman as Cheyenne Harry
1919Rider of the Law as Jim Kyneton
1919The Ace of the Saddle as Cheyenne Harry Henderson
1919The Outcasts of Poker Flat as Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
1919Riders of Vengeance as Cheyenne Harry
1919Bare Fists as Cheyenne Harry
1919A Fight For Love as Cheyenne Harry
1919Roped as Cheyenne Harry
1918Three Mounted Men as Cheyenne Harry
1918A Woman's Fool as Lin McLean
1918Hell Bent as Cheyenne Harry
1918The Scarlet Drop as Harry Ridge
1918Thieves' Gold as Cheyenne Harry
1918Wild Women as Cheyenne Harry
1918The Phantom Riders as Cheyenne Harry
1917Bucking Broadway as Cheyenne Harry
1917A Marked Man as Cheyenne Harry
1917The Secret Man as Cheyenne Harry
1917Straight Shooting as "Cheyenne" Harry
1917Cheyenne's Pal as Cheyenne Harry
1917The Soul Herder as Cheyenne Harry
1917Six-Shooter Justice as Cheyenne Harry
1917The Wrong Man as Jack Wilson
1917The Golden Bullet as Jack
1917The Mysterious Outlaw as Buck Lessen
1917The Almost Good Man as Dick Glenning
1917A 44-Calibre Mystery as Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
1917The Honor of an Outlaw as Cheyenne Harry
1917Hair-Trigger Burke as Hair Trigger Burke
1917The Fighting Gringo as William 'Red' Saunders
1917Goin' Straight as Cheyenne Harry
1917The Drifter as Cheyenne Harry
1917The Outlaw and the Lady as Cheyenne Harry
1917The Bad Man of Cheyenne as Cheyenne Harry
1917Blood Money as Cheyenne Harry
1916Guilty as Ramon Valentine
1916The Conspiracy as Dick Olney
1916Behind the Lines as Dr. Ralph Hamlin
1916The Devil's Own as Shifty
1916A Woman's Eyes as Tom Horn
1916Love's Lariat as Sky High
1916For the Love of a Girl as Black La Rue
1916The Committee on Credentials as Ballaret Bill
1916The Jackals of a Great City as Tom Wayne
1916The Three Godfathers as Bob Sangster
1916The Wedding Guest as The Squarest Sheriff Alive
1916The Passing of Hell's Crown as Blaze
1916The Harbor Transportation Trust as Tom Larnigan
1916A Knight of the Range as Cheyenne Harry
1916The Insurance Swindlers as Tom Larnigan
1916Secret Love as Fergus Derrick
1916Old King Coal as Tom Larnigan
1916America Saved from War as Tom Larnigan
1916The Railroad Monopoly as Tom Larnigan
1916Grinding Life Down as Tom Larnigan
1916The Power of the People as Tom Larnigan
1915Graft as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
1915Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings as Miles Rand
1915Just Jim as Jim
1915As It Happened as The New Foreman
1915Old Offenders as Norris
1915Her Convert as The Converted Cracksman
1915The Way Out as The Bandit
1915Her Dormant Love as Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
1915Truth Stranger Than Fiction as Crook
1915The Canceled Mortgage as 1st Road Agent
1915A Day's Adventure as Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
1915A Double Winning as 2nd Sportsman
1915The Gambler's I.O.U. as Dave Dawson
1915The Miser's Legacy as Jackson - The Crook
1915The Sheriff's Dilemma as The Sheriff
1915The Love Transcendent as The Prospector
1915His Desperate Deed as Burleigh
1915The Heart of a Bandit as Texas Pete - the Bandit
1914McVeagh of the South Seas as Cyril Bruce McVeagh
1914The Master Cracksman as Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
1914Brute Force as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
1914Her Hand as Ivan
1914Judith of Bethulia as Assyrian Traitor
1914Her Father's Silent Partner as Unknown
1914A Nest Unfeathered as The Foreman
1914His Fireman's Conscience as Engineer Daily
1914Waifs as Unknown
1914Concentration as First Son
1913The Abandoned Well as The Adopted Son
1913For Her Government as Unknown
1913All for Science as The Young Man
1913The Detective's Stratagem as Keene, the Detective
1913The Stopped Clock as The Detective
1913Madonna of the Storm as Unknown
1913The Van Nostrand Tiara as Society Detective
1913A Tender-Hearted Crook as The Thief
1913The Law and His Son as Manning
1913The Stolen Treaty as The Detective
1913A Modest Hero as Unknown
1913The Strong Man's Burden as Bob - the Younger Brother
1913Black and White as Unknown
1913The Crook and the Girl as The Crook
1913The Work Habit as The Son-in-Law
1913Under the Shadow of the Law as The Convict
1913When Love Forgives as Second Criminal
1913I Was Meant for You as Luke
1913The Vengeance of Galora as A Prospector
1913A Misappropriated Turkey as The Bartender
1913The Mirror as First Tramp
1913A Gambler's Honor as The Gambler
1913A Gamble with Death as The Cowpuncher
1913In Diplomatic Circles as The Butler
1913The Switchtower as Unknown
1913The Well as Giuseppe, the Farmhand
1913The Enemy's Baby as Miller
1913Red Hicks Defies the World as In Crowd (uncredited)
1913The Sorrowful Shore as The Widowed Father
1913The Ranchero's Revenge as The Schemer
1913A Dangerous Foe as The 'Bull'
1913Olaf—An Atom as Olaf, an Atom
1913The Stolen Loaf as The Butler
1913The Tenderfoot's Money as The Gambler
1913If We Only Knew as The Sailor
1913The Left-Handed Man as The Left-Handed Thief
1913A Frightful Blunder as The Superintendent
1913The Stolen Bride as The Husband
1913The Hero of Little Italy as Tony
1913The Sheriff's Baby as Second Bandit
1913Near To Earth as Unknown
1913The Unwelcome Guest as The Sheriff
1913Broken Ways as The Sheriff
1913The Wrong Bottle as Unknown
1913Love in an Apartment Hotel as The Thief
1913A Chance Deception as Raffles
1913Oil and Water as The Stage Manager / At Dinner
1913Brothers as The Mother's Favorite Son
1913An Adventure in the Autumn Woods as Third Thief
1913Pirate Gold as Unknown
1913The Telephone Girl and the Lady as The Thief
1912A Cry for Help as The Thief
1912The Burglar’s Dilemma as Older Crook
1912My Hero as Indian
1912Brutality as At Theatre
1912The Informer as The Confederate Corporal
1912Heredity as The White Renegade Father
1912The Musketeers of Pig Alley as Snapper's Sidekick
1912The Painted Lady as At Ice Cream Festival
1912The One She Loved as The Neighbor's Friend
1912In the Aisles of the Wild as Bob Cole
1912A Feud in the Kentucky Hills as 2nd Clan Member
1912So Near, Yet So Far as A Thief
1912Friends as Bob Kyne - the Prospector
1912Two Daughters of Eve as In Audience
1912An Unseen Enemy as The Safecracker
1910Bill Sharkey's Last Game as Unknown
1910Gentleman Joe as Unknown
Crew
19483 Godfathers ... In Memory Of
Writing
1925Soft Shoes ... Story
1922The Kickback ... Story
1921The Fox ... Story
1921Hearts Up ... Story
1920Human Stuff ... Scenario Writer
1919A Gun Fightin' Gentleman ... Story
1919Riders of Vengeance ... Story
1919The Gun Packer ... Story
1918Hell Bent ... Story, Writer
1917Goin' Straight ... Story
1917The Outlaw and the Lady ... Story
1917The Bad Man of Cheyenne ... Story
1917Blood Money ... Story
1916Stampede in the Night ... Story
1916A Knight of the Range ... Scenario Writer
1914McVeagh of the South Seas ... Story
1914The Master Cracksman ... Writer
1913Under the Shadow of the Law ... Screenplay, Story
1913A Gambler's Honor ... Writer
Production
1918Wild Women ... Producer
1918The Phantom Riders ... Producer
1917Bucking Broadway ... Producer
Directing
1916Love's Lariat ... Director
1916For the Love of a Girl ... Director
1914McVeagh of the South Seas ... Director
1914The Master Cracksman ... Director