Harry Carey

Known For: Acting
Born: January 16, 1878
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: September 21, 1947

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 …

Filmography

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

2000 · (archive footage)

Legends of the West

1992 · Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972 · Self (archive footage)

Directed by John Ford

1971 · (archive footage)

Film Fun

1955 · (archive footage)

3 Godfathers

1948 · In Memory Of

So Dear to My Heart

1948 · Head Judge at County Fair

Red River

1948 · Mr. Melville

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Doc J. Reid

Angel and the Badman

1947 · Marshal Wistful McClintock

Duel in the Sun

1946 · Lem Smoot

China's Little Devils

1945 · Doc Temple

The Great Moment

1944 · Professor John C. Warren

Happy Land

1943 · Edward "Gramp" Marsh

Air Force

1943 · Crew Chief

The Spoilers

1942 · Dextry

Among the Living

1941 · Dr. Ben Saunders

Sundown

1941 · Dewey

Parachute Battalion

1941 · Bill Richards

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · Daniel Howitt

They Knew What They Wanted

1940 · The Doctor

Beyond Tomorrow

1940 · George Vale Melton

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

1940 · Captain Bailey

My Son Is Guilty

1939 · Police Officer Tim Kerry

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · President of the Senate

Land of Liberty

1939 · (archive footage)

Inside Information

1939 · Captain Bill Dugan

Street of Missing Men

1939 · Charles Putnam

Code of the Streets

1939 · Detective Lieutenant John Lewis

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

1939 · P.G. Delano

The Law West of Tombstone

1938 · William 'Bill' Barker

King of Alcatraz

1938 · Captain Glennan

Gateway

1938 · Commissioner Nelson

Sky Giant

1938 · Col. Cornelius Stockton

You and Me

1938 · Mr. Morris

Port of Missing Girls

1938 · Captain Josiah Storm

Danger Patrol

1937 · Sam "Easy" Street

Annapolis Salute

1937 · Chief Martin

Souls at Sea

1937 · Captain of the William Brown

Born Reckless

1937 · Dad Martin

Border Cafe

1937 · Tex Stevens

Kid Galahad

1937 · Silver Jackson

Lest We Forget

1937 · Himself

Racing Lady

1937 · Tom Martin

Aces Wild

1936 · Cheyenne Harry Morgan

The Accusing Finger

1936 · Sen. Nash

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

1936 · Phil Yonne

The Last Outlaw

1936 · Dean Payton

Little Miss Nobody

1936 · John Russell

Sutter's Gold

1936 · Kit Carson

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936 · Commandant

Ghost Town

1936 · Cheyenne Harry Morgan

The Last of the Clintons

1935 · Trigger Carson

Wild Mustang

1935 · Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton

Barbary Coast

1935 · Jed Slocum

Powdersmoke Range

1935 · Tucson Smith

Rustler's Paradise

1935 · Cheyenne Kincaid

Wagon Trail

1935 · Sheriff Clay Hartley

Man of the Forest

1933 · Jim Gayner

Sunset Pass

1933 · John Hesbitt

Buffalo Stampede

1933 · Clark Sprague

The Film Parade

1933 · (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Devil Horse

1932 · Bob Norton / Roberts

The Night Rider

1932 · John Brown / Jim Blake

The Last of the Mohicans

1932 · Hawkeye

Border Devils

1932 · Jim Gray

The Movie Album

1932 · (archive footage)

Law and Order

1932 · Ed Brandt

Without Honor

1932 · Pete Marlan

Cavalier of the West

1931 · Captain John Allister

Bad Company

1931 · McBaine

The Vanishing Legion

1931 · 'Happy' Cardigan

Trader Horn

1931 · Aloysius "Trader" Horn

The Border Patrol

1928 · Bill Storm

Burning Bridges

1928 · Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely

The Trail of '98

1928 · Jack Locasto

Slide, Kelly, Slide

1927 · Tom Munson

A Little Journey

1927 · Alexander Smith

Satan Town

1926 · Bill Scott

The Frontier Trail

1926 · Jim Cardigan

The Seventh Bandit

1926 · David Scanlon

Driftin' Thru

1926 · Daniel Brown

The Man from Red Gulch

1925 · Alexander 'Sandy' Morton

The Prairie Pirate

1925 · Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney

The Bad Lands

1925 · Patrick Angus O'Toole

The Texas Trail

1925 · Pete Grainger

Beyond the Border

1925 · Bob Smith

Silent Sanderson

1925 · Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson

Soft Shoes

1925 · Pat Halahan, Story

The Flaming Forties

1924 · Bill Jones

Roaring Rails

1924 · Big Bill Benson

Tiger Thompson

1924 · Tiger Thompson

The Lightning Rider

1924 · Phlip Morgan

The Night Hawk

1924 · 'The Hawk'

The Miracle Baby

1923 · Neil Allison

Desert Driven

1923 · Bob

Crashin' Thru

1923 · Blake

Canyon of the Fools

1923 · Bob

Good Men and True

1922 · J. Wesley Pringle

The Kickback

1922 · White Horse Harry, Story

Man to Man

1922 · Steve Packard

The Fox

1921 · Ol' Santa Fe, Story

Desperate Trails

1921 · Bart Carson

The Wallop

1921 · John Wesley Pringle

The Freeze-Out

1921 · Ohio, the Stranger

Hearts Up

1921 · David Brent, Story

West Is West

1920 · Dick Rainboldt

Sundown Slim

1920 · Sundown Slim

Blue Streak McCoy

1920 · Job McCoy

'If Only' Jim

1920 · Jim Golden

Human Stuff

1920 · James 'Jim' Pierce, Scenario Writer

Bullet Proof

1920 · Pierre Winton

Overland Red

1920 · Overland Red

Marked Men

1919 · Cheyenne Harry

A Gun Fightin' Gentleman

1919 · Cheyenne Harry, Story

Rider of the Law

1919 · Jim Kyneton

The Ace of the Saddle

1919 · Cheyenne Harry Henderson

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1919 · Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst

Riders of Vengeance

1919 · Cheyenne Harry, Story

The Gun Packer

1919 · Story

Bare Fists

1919 · Cheyenne Harry

A Fight For Love

1919 · Cheyenne Harry

Roped

1919 · Cheyenne Harry

Three Mounted Men

1918 · Cheyenne Harry

A Woman's Fool

1918 · Lin McLean

Hell Bent

1918 · Cheyenne Harry, Story, Writer

The Scarlet Drop

1918 · Harry Ridge

Thieves' Gold

1918 · Cheyenne Harry

Wild Women

1918 · Cheyenne Harry, Producer

The Phantom Riders

1918 · Cheyenne Harry, Producer

Bucking Broadway

1917 · Cheyenne Harry, Producer

A Marked Man

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

The Secret Man

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

Straight Shooting

1917 · "Cheyenne" Harry

Cheyenne's Pal

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

The Soul Herder

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

Six-Shooter Justice

Six-Shooter Justice

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

The Wrong Man

1917 · Jack Wilson

The Golden Bullet

1917 · Jack

The Mysterious Outlaw

The Mysterious Outlaw

1917 · Buck Lessen

The Almost Good Man

1917 · Dick Glenning

A 44-Calibre Mystery

1917 · Sheriff Cheyenne Harry

The Honor of an Outlaw

The Honor of an Outlaw

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

Hair-Trigger Burke

Hair-Trigger Burke

1917 · Hair Trigger Burke

The Fighting Gringo

1917 · William 'Red' Saunders

Goin' Straight

1917 · Cheyenne Harry, Story

The Drifter

1917 · Cheyenne Harry

The Outlaw and the Lady

1917 · Cheyenne Harry, Story

The Bad Man of Cheyenne

The Bad Man of Cheyenne

1917 · Cheyenne Harry, Story

Blood Money

1917 · Cheyenne Harry, Story

Guilty

1916 · Ramon Valentine

The Conspiracy

1916 · Dick Olney

Behind the Lines

1916 · Dr. Ralph Hamlin

The Devil's Own

The Devil's Own

1916 · Shifty

A Woman's Eyes

1916 · Tom Horn

Love's Lariat

1916 · Sky High, Director

For the Love of a Girl

For the Love of a Girl

1916 · Black La Rue, Director

The Committee on Credentials

1916 · Ballaret Bill

The Jackals of a Great City

The Jackals of a Great City

1916 · Tom Wayne

The Three Godfathers

1916 · Bob Sangster

The Wedding Guest

The Wedding Guest

1916 · The Squarest Sheriff Alive

The Passing of Hell's Crown

The Passing of Hell's Crown

1916 · Blaze

The Night Riders

1916 · The Apache Kid

Stampede in the Night

Stampede in the Night

1916 · Story

The Harbor Transportation Trust

The Harbor Transportation Trust

1916 · Tom Larnigan

A Knight of the Range

1916 · Cheyenne Harry, Scenario Writer

The Insurance Swindlers

The Insurance Swindlers

1916 · Tom Larnigan

Secret Love

1916 · Fergus Derrick

Old King Coal

1916 · Tom Larnigan

America Saved from War

America Saved from War

1916 · Tom Larnigan

The Railroad Monopoly

The Railroad Monopoly

1916 · Tom Larnigan

Grinding Life Down

Grinding Life Down

1916 · Tom Larnigan

The Power of the People

The Power of the People

1916 · Tom Larnigan

Graft

1915 · Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)

Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings

Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings

1915 · Miles Rand

Just Jim

1915 · Jim

As It Happened

1915 · The New Foreman

Old Offenders

1915 · Norris

Her Convert

1915 · The Converted Cracksman

The Way Out

1915 · The Bandit

Her Dormant Love

Her Dormant Love

1915 · Dandy Dick - The Fugitive

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

Truth Stranger Than Fiction

1915 · Crook

The Canceled Mortgage

1915 · 1st Road Agent

A Day's Adventure

A Day's Adventure

1915 · Hogan - Leader of the Crooks

A Double Winning

A Double Winning

1915 · 2nd Sportsman

The Gambler's I.O.U.

The Gambler's I.O.U.

1915 · Dave Dawson

The Miser's Legacy

The Miser's Legacy

1915 · Jackson - The Crook

The Sheriff's Dilemma

The Sheriff's Dilemma

1915 · The Sheriff

The Love Transcendent

The Love Transcendent

1915 · The Prospector

His Desperate Deed

His Desperate Deed

1915 · Burleigh

The Heart of a Bandit

1915 · Texas Pete - the Bandit

McVeagh of the South Seas

1914 · Cyril Bruce McVeagh, Story, Director

The Master Cracksman

1914 · Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman, Writer, Director

Brute Force

1914 · In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)

Her Hand

1914 · Ivan

Judith of Bethulia

1914 · Assyrian Traitor

Her Father's Silent Partner

1914

A Nest Unfeathered

A Nest Unfeathered

1914 · The Foreman

His Fireman's Conscience

His Fireman's Conscience

1914 · Engineer Daily

Waifs

1914

Concentration

1914 · First Son

The Abandoned Well

The Abandoned Well

1913 · The Adopted Son

For Her Government

For Her Government

1913

All for Science

All for Science

1913 · The Young Man

The Detective's Stratagem

The Detective's Stratagem

1913 · Keene, the Detective

The Stopped Clock

The Stopped Clock

1913 · The Detective

Madonna of the Storm

Madonna of the Storm

1913

The Van Nostrand Tiara

The Van Nostrand Tiara

1913 · Society Detective

A Tender-Hearted Crook

A Tender-Hearted Crook

1913 · The Thief

The Law and His Son

The Law and His Son

1913 · Manning

The Stolen Treaty

The Stolen Treaty

1913 · The Detective

A Modest Hero

1913

The Strong Man's Burden

1913 · Bob - the Younger Brother

Black and White

Black and White

1913

The Crook and the Girl

The Crook and the Girl

1913 · The Crook

The Work Habit

1913 · The Son-in-Law

Under the Shadow of the Law

Under the Shadow of the Law

1913 · The Convict, Screenplay, Story

When Love Forgives

When Love Forgives

1913 · Second Criminal

I Was Meant for You

I Was Meant for You

1913 · Luke

The Vengeance of Galora

The Vengeance of Galora

1913 · A Prospector

A Misappropriated Turkey

A Misappropriated Turkey

1913 · The Bartender

The Mirror

1913 · First Tramp

A Gambler's Honor

A Gambler's Honor

1913 · The Gambler, Writer

A Gamble with Death

A Gamble with Death

1913 · The Cowpuncher

In Diplomatic Circles

In Diplomatic Circles

1913 · The Butler

The Switchtower

1913

The Well

1913 · Giuseppe, the Farmhand

The Enemy's Baby

The Enemy's Baby

1913 · Miller

Red Hicks Defies the World

Red Hicks Defies the World

1913 · In Crowd (uncredited)

The Sorrowful Shore

The Sorrowful Shore

1913 · The Widowed Father

The Ranchero's Revenge

The Ranchero's Revenge

1913 · The Schemer

A Dangerous Foe

A Dangerous Foe

1913 · The 'Bull'

Olaf—An Atom

1913 · Olaf, an Atom

The Stolen Loaf

The Stolen Loaf

1913 · The Butler

The Tenderfoot's Money

1913 · The Gambler

If We Only Knew

1913 · The Sailor

The Left-Handed Man

The Left-Handed Man

1913 · The Left-Handed Thief

A Frightful Blunder

A Frightful Blunder

1913 · The Superintendent

The Stolen Bride

The Stolen Bride

1913 · The Husband

The Hero of Little Italy

The Hero of Little Italy

1913 · Tony

The Sheriff's Baby

1913 · Second Bandit

Near To Earth

1913

The Unwelcome Guest

1913 · The Sheriff

Broken Ways

1913 · The Sheriff

The Wrong Bottle

The Wrong Bottle

1913

Love in an Apartment Hotel

Love in an Apartment Hotel

1913 · The Thief

A Chance Deception

A Chance Deception

1913 · Raffles

Oil and Water

1913 · The Stage Manager / At Dinner

Brothers

1913 · The Mother's Favorite Son

An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

1913 · Third Thief

Pirate Gold

1913

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

1913 · The Thief

A Cry for Help

1912 · The Thief

The Burglar’s Dilemma

1912 · Older Crook

My Hero

1912 · Indian

Brutality

1912 · At Theatre

The Informer

1912 · The Confederate Corporal

Heredity

1912 · The White Renegade Father

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

1912 · Snapper's Sidekick

The Painted Lady

1912 · At Ice Cream Festival

The One She Loved

The One She Loved

1912 · The Neighbor's Friend

In the Aisles of the Wild

1912 · Bob Cole

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

1912 · 2nd Clan Member

So Near, Yet So Far

1912 · A Thief

Friends

1912 · Bob Kyne - the Prospector

Two Daughters of Eve

1912 · In Audience

An Unseen Enemy

1912 · The Safecracker

Bill Sharkey's Last Game

Bill Sharkey's Last Game

1910

Gentleman Joe

1910

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