Harry Carey Biography

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Wiki Biography: 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."
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Barbary Coast | 1975 - 1976 | Adventure |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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An Unseen Enemy | 1912 | Crime, Thriller | |
The Painted Lady | 1912 | Drama | |
The Musketeers of Pig Alley | 1912 | Crime, Drama | |
Heredity | 1912 | Drama | |
Gold and Glitter | 1912 | Drama | |
Brutality | 1912 | Drama | |
A Cry for Help | 1912 | Drama | |
The Switch Tower | 1913 | ||
The Crook and the Girl | 1913 | ||
The Stolen Treaty | 1913 | Drama | |
The Stopped Clock | 1913 | ||
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch | 1914 | Action | |
Truth Stranger Than Fiction | 1915 | Drama | |
As It Happened | 1915 | Drama | |
The Wedding Guest | 1916 | Drama | |
The Three Godfathers | 1916 | ||
The Fighting Gringo | 1917 | Adventure | |
Straight Shooting | Cheyenne Harry | 1917 | |
The Secret Man | Cheyenne Harry | 1917 | |
A Marked Man | Cheyenne Harry | 1917 | |
Bucking Broadway | Cheyenne Harry | 1917 | |
The Phantom Riders | Cheyenne Harry | 1918 | |
Roped | Cheyenne Harry | 1919 | Comedy |
A Fight for Love | Cheyenne Harry | 1919 | |
Bare Fists | Cheyenne Harry | 1919 | |
Riders of Vengeance | Cheyenne Harry | 1919 | |
Rider of the Law | 1919 | ||
Marked Men | Cheyenne Harry | 1919 | |
Hearts Up | 1921 | ||
The Freeze-Out | 1921 | ||
The Wallop | 1921 | ||
Desperate Trails | 1921 | ||
The Kickback | 1922 | ||
The Miracle Baby | 1923 | ||
Soft Shoes | 1925 | Drama | |
The Texas Trail | 1925 | ||
A Little Journey | 1927 | Comedy, Romance | |
The Trail of '98 | 1928 | ||
Trader Horn | Aloysius 'Trader' Horn | 1931 | Adventure, Romance |
The Vanishing Legion | 1931 | Action, Adventure | |
The Devil Horse | 1932 | ||
The Thundering Herd | 1933 | ||
Barbary Coast | 1935 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | |
The Prisoner of Shark Island | 1936 | Drama, History | |
Kid Galahad | 1937 | Biography | |
Souls at Sea | 1937 | Action, Adventure | |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | 0 | |
Mr Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Drama | |
They Knew What They Wanted | Doctor | 1940 | |
The Shepherd of the Hills | 1941 | Adventure, Drama | |
Parachute Battalion | 1941 | Drama, Romance | |
Among the Living | 1941 | Drama, Thriller | |
The Spoilers | 1942 | Biography | |
Air Force | Sgt. R. L. White | 1943 | 0, 0, 0 |
Happy Land | 1943 | Drama | |
The Great Moment | 1944 | Comedy, Drama | |
Angel and the Badman | 1947 | Biography | |
The Sea of Grass | Doc J. Reid | 1947 | Drama |
Duel in the Sun | 1947 | Drama, Romance | |
Red River | 1948 | Fantasy, 0 | |
So Dear to My Heart | 1948 | Drama, 0 | |
Battle of the Idiots | Fredrick Johnson | 2015 | Action, Comedy |