Harry Carey

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	Acting
Most Rating	0.8438
Birthday	1878-01-16
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.,

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Red River

Angel and the Badman

Beyond Tomorrow

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

Duel in the Sun

Desperate Trails

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

The Freeze-Out

The Great Moment

Bullet Proof

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

Among the Living

The Shepherd of the Hills

Souls at Sea

The Committee on Credentials

The Spoilers

The Fox

Air Force

You and Me

The Bad Lands

Kid Galahad

The Sheriff's Baby

Trader Horn

In the Aisles of the Wild

Bill Sharkey's Last Game

Pirate Gold

Gentleman Joe

Sundown

Two Daughters of Eve

A Cry for Help

Brothers

Love in an Apartment Hotel

The Left-Handed Man

A Chance Deception

A Modest Hero

A Misappropriated Turkey

The Hero of Little Italy

Madonna of the Storm

The Wrong Bottle

An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

A Frightful Blunder

If We Only Knew

The Tenderfoot's Money

Heredity

My Hero

Brutality

Near To Earth

The Stolen Loaf

A Dangerous Foe

The Ranchero's Revenge

The Sorrowful Shore

The Well

In Diplomatic Circles

A Gamble with Death

The Switchtower

Red Hicks Defies the World

The Enemy's Baby

The Vengeance of Galora

A Gambler's Honor

When Love Forgives

The Mirror

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Under the Shadow of the Law

I Was Meant for You

Brute Force

The Crook and the Girl

The Work Habit

The Law and His Son

The Stolen Treaty

The Van Nostrand Tiara

The Stopped Clock

All for Science

The Detective's Stratagem

The Abandoned Well

For Her Government

Concentration

They Knew What They Wanted

Without Honor

The Sea of Grass