Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 - September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent films 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.
Mr. Melville
Film 1948
George Vale Melton
Film 1940
(archive footage)
Film 2000
Lem Smoot
Film 1946
Bart Carson
Film 1921
Captain Bailey
Film 1940
Ohio, the Stranger
Film 1921
Professor John C. Warren
Film 1944
Pierre Winton
Film 1920
Snapper's Sidekick
Film 1912
Dr. Ben Saunders
Film 1941
Captain of the William Brown
Film 1937
Ballaret Bill
Film 1916
Dextry
Film 1942
Ol' Santa Fe
Film 1921
Patrick Angus O'Toole
Film 1925
Second Bandit
Film 1913
Aloysius "Trader" Horn
Film 1931
Film 1913
Film 1910
Film 1910
In Audience
Film 1912
Bob Cole
Film 1912
Dewey
Film 1941
The Thief
Film 1912
The Left-Handed Thief
Film 1913
Third Thief
Film 1913
The Bartender
Film 1913
The Mother's Favorite Son
Film 1913
Raffles
Film 1913
The Thief
Film 1913
Film 1913
Tony
Film 1913
The Superintendent
Film 1913
Film 1913
Film 1913
The Sailor
Film 1913
The Gambler
Film 1913
The White Renegade Father
Film 1912
At Theatre
Film 1912
Indian
Film 1912
Film 1913
The Butler
Film 1913
The 'Bull'
Film 1913
The Schemer
Film 1913
In Crowd (uncredited)
Film 1913
Giuseppe, the Farmhand
Film 1913
Film 1913
The Butler
Film 1913
The Cowpuncher
Film 1913
The Widowed Father
Film 1913
Miller
Film 1913
The Gambler
Film 1913
First Tramp
Film 1913
A Prospector
Film 1913
Second Criminal
Film 1913
Commandant
Film 1936
The Convict
Film 1913
Luke
Film 1913
The Son-in-Law
Film 1913
The Crook
Film 1913
In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
Film 1914
The Detective
Film 1913
Manning
Film 1913
Society Detective
Film 1913
The Detective
Film 1913
Keene, the Detective
Film 1913
The Young Man
Film 1913
Film 1913
The Adopted Son
Film 1913
First Son
Film 1914
The Doctor
Film 1940
Pete Marlan
Film 1932
Doc J. Reid
Film 1947
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
The Safecracker
Film 1912
Captain Glennan
Film 1938
Texas Pete - the Bandit
Film 1915
Burleigh
Film 1915
Film 1914
Engineer Daily
Film 1914
The Foreman
Film 1914
Film 1914
Assyrian Traitor
Film 1914
Ivan
Film 1914
Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
Film 1914
Jim
Film 1915
The Prospector
Film 1915
The Sheriff
Film 1915
Jackson - The Crook
Film 1915
Dave Dawson
Film 1915
2nd Sportsman
Film 1915
Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
Film 1915
1st Road Agent
Film 1915
Crook
Film 1915
Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
Film 1915
The Bandit
Film 1915
The Converted Cracksman
Film 1915
Norris
Film 1915
The New Foreman
Film 1915
Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
Film 1915
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1916
Tom Larnigan
Film 1916
Ed Brandt
Film 1932
Blaze
Film 1916
The Squarest Sheriff Alive
Film 1916
Tom Wayne
Film 1916
Black La Rue
Film 1916
Tom Horn
Film 1916
Shifty
Film 1916
Dick Olney
Film 1916
Ramon Valentine
Film 1916
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Col. Cornelius Stockton
Film 1938
Self (archive footage)
Film 1972
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Hair Trigger Burke
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Dick Glenning
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Buck Lessen
Film 1917
Jack
Film 1917
James 'Jim' Pierce
Film 1920
Jack Wilson
Film 1917
Captain Bill Dugan
Film 1939
Sen. Nash
Film 1936
Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
Film 1928
Bill Scott
Film 1926
Jim Cardigan
Film 1926
David Scanlon
Film 1926
Daniel Brown
Film 1926
Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
Film 1925
Pete Grainger
Film 1925
Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
Film 1925
Jim Golden
Film 1920
J. Wesley Pringle
Film 1922
Blake
Film 1923
Bob
Film 1923
Neil Allison
Film 1923
Tiger Thompson
Film 1924
Overland Red
Film 1920
Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
Film 1992
'Happy' Cardigan
Film 1931
Hawkeye
Film 1932
Jim Gray
Film 1932
William 'Bill' Barker
Film 1938
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
Film 1936
John Brown / Jim Blake
Film 1932
Bob Norton / Roberts
Film 1932
At Ice Cream Festival
Film 1912
Jim Gayner
Film 1933
Sheriff Clay Hartley
Film 1935
A Thief
Film 1912
Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
Film 1925
Bob Kyne - the Prospector
Film 1912
Older Crook
Film 1912
Tex Stevens
Film 1937
Trigger Carson
Film 1935
Chief Martin
Film 1937
Bill Richards
Film 1941
Dad Martin
Film 1937
P.G. Delano
Film 1939
John Russell
Film 1936
Captain Josiah Storm
Film 1938
Captain John Allister
Film 1931
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1919
Cheyenne Harry Morgan
Film 1936
John Hesbitt
Film 1933
"Cheyenne" Harry
Film 1917
Sam "Easy" Street
Film 1937
Jed Slocum
Film 1935
Dean Payton
Film 1936
(archive footage)
Film 1939
Head Judge at County Fair
Film 1948
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1918
Bob Sangster
Film 1916
Dick Rainboldt
Film 1920
White Horse Harry
Film 1922
'The Hawk'
Film 1924
Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
Film 1935
Big Bill Benson
Film 1924
Film 1913
Jack Locasto
Film 1928
Tucson Smith
Film 1935
Charles Putnam
Film 1939
Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
Film 1939
Doc Temple
Film 1945
Bob - the Younger Brother
Film 1913
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1917
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1918
Harry Ridge
Film 1918
Lin McLean
Film 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1918
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1919
Cyril Bruce McVeagh
Film 1914
Alexander Smith
Film 1927
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1919
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1919
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1919
Bob Smith
Film 1925
The Sheriff
Film 1913
The Sheriff
Film 1913
The Confederate Corporal
Film 1912
The Neighbor's Friend
Film 1912
The Thief
Film 1913
Pat Halahan
Film 1925
Bill Jones
Film 1924
Cheyenne Harry
Film 1919
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1933
Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
Film 1919
Cheyenne Harry Henderson
Film 1919
Jim Kyneton
Film 1919
Miles Rand
Film 1915
McBaine
Film 1931
The Stage Manager / At Dinner
Film 1913
Dr. Ralph Hamlin
Film 1916
Sky High
Film 1916
Bill Storm
Film 1928
Bob
Film 1923
Steve Packard
Film 1922
Job McCoy
Film 1920
Phlip Morgan
Film 1924
Olaf, an Atom
Film 1913
(archive footage)
Film 1955
William 'Red' Saunders
Film 1917
(archive footage)
Film 1971
The Husband
Film 1913
Sundown Slim
Film 1920
Cheyenne Kincaid
Film 1935
Fergus Derrick
Film 1916
The Thief
Film 1913
John Wesley Pringle
Film 1921
David Brent
Film 1921