Harry Carey

Birthday: 1878-01-16
Deathday: 1946-12-31
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0

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."

Career Statisics

Season Age Movie Role Result Points
1940 62 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Supporting Actor Nom 0
Career 0

Transaction History

Date Location Team Receives Team Receives Team Receives

Credits

Year Title Character
1992-09-08 Legends of the West Ed Brandt in 'Law and Order'
1948-11-29 So Dear to My Heart Head Judge at County Fair
1948-08-26 Red River Mr. Melville
1947-04-25 The Sea of Grass Doc J. Reid
1947-02-15 Angel and the Badman Marshal Wistful McClintock
1946-12-31 Duel in the Sun Lem Smoot
1945-05-27 China's Little Devils Doc Temple
1944-07-18 The Great Moment Professor John C. Warren
1943-11-10 Happy Land Edward "Gramp" Marsh
1943-03-20 Air Force Crew Chief
1942-06-11 The Spoilers Dextry
1941-12-12 Among the Living Dr. Ben Saunders
1941-10-31 Sundown Dewey
1941-09-12 Parachute Battalion Bill Richards
1941-07-18 The Shepherd of the Hills Daniel Howitt
1940-10-19 They Knew What They Wanted The Doctor
1940-05-10 Beyond Tomorrow George Vale Melton
1940-03-07 Outside the Three-Mile Limit Captain Bailey
1939-12-28 My Son Is Guilty Police Officer Tim Kerry
1939-10-19 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington President of the Senate
1939-06-02 Inside Information Captain Bill Dugan
1939-04-24 Street of Missing Men Charles Putnam
1939-04-13 Code of the Streets Detective Lieutenant John Lewis
1939-01-13 Burn 'Em Up O'Connor P.G. Delano
1938-11-18 The Law West of Tombstone William 'Bill' Barker
1938-09-30 King of Alcatraz Captain Glennan
1938-08-05 Gateway Commissioner Nelson
1938-07-22 Sky Giant Col. Cornelius Stockton
1938-06-01 You and Me Mr. Morris
1938-02-24 Port of Missing Girls Captain Josiah Storm
1937-11-18 Danger Patrol Sam "Easy" Street
1937-09-10 Annapolis Salute Chief Martin
1937-09-03 Souls at Sea Captain of the William Brown
1937-06-25 Born Reckless Dad Martin
1937-06-04 Border Cafe Tex Stevens
1937-05-29 Kid Galahad Silver Jackson
1937-01-12 Racing Lady Tom Martin
1936-12-21 Aces Wild Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1936-11-17 The Accusing Finger Sen. Nash
1936-10-06 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Phil Yonne
1936-06-19 The Last Outlaw Dean Payton
1936-06-05 Little Miss Nobody John Russell
1936-03-01 Sutter's Gold Kit Carson
1936-02-28 The Prisoner of Shark Island Commandant
1936-02-15 Ghost Town Cheyenne Harry Morgan
1935-11-12 The Last of the Clintons Trigger Carson
1935-10-21 Wild Mustang Joe 'Wild Mustang' Norton
1935-10-13 Barbary Coast Jed Slocum
1935-09-27 Powdersmoke Range Tucson Smith
1935-05-01 Rustler's Paradise Cheyenne Kincaid
1935-04-08 Wagon Trail Sheriff Clay Hartley
1933-08-24 Man of the Forest Jim Gayner
1933-05-26 Sunset Pass John Hesbitt
1933-03-01 The Thundering Herd Clark Sprague
1932-11-01 The Devil Horse Bob Norton / Roberts
1932-08-22 The Night Rider John Brown / Jim Blake
1932-05-17 The Last of the Mohicans Hawkeye
1932-04-03 Border Devils Jim Gray
1932-02-09 Law and Order Ed Brandt
1932-01-02 Without Honors Pete Marlan
1931-11-15 Cavalier of the West Captain John Allister
1931-10-16 Bad Company McBaine
1931-06-01 The Vanishing Legion 'Happy' Cardigan
1931-02-03 Trader Horn Aloysius "Trader" Horn
1928-12-23 The Border Patrol Bill Storm
1928-09-30 Burning Bridges Jim Whitely / Bob Whitely
1928-03-20 The Trail of '98 Jack Locasto
1927-03-12 Slide, Kelly, Slide Tom Munson
1927-01-01 A Little Journey Alexander Smith
1926-08-15 Satan Town Bill Scott
1926-06-20 The Frontier Trail Jim Cardigan
1926-04-18 The Seventh Bandit David Scanlon
1926-02-21 Driftin' Thru Daniel Brown
1925-12-13 The Man from Red Gulch Alexander 'Sandy' Morton
1925-10-10 The Prairie Pirate Brian 'The Yellow Seal' Delaney
1925-07-15 The Bad Lands Patrick Angus O'Toole
1925-06-01 The Texas Trail Pete Grainger
1925-05-30 Beyond the Border Bob Smith
1925-04-13 Silent Sanderson Joel Parsons / Silent Sanderson
1925-01-01 Soft Shoes Pat Halahan
1924-12-21 The Flaming Forties Bill Jones
1924-09-20 Roaring Rails Big Bill Benson
1924-07-13 Tiger Thompson Tiger Thompson
1924-05-18 The Lightning Rider Phlip Morgan
1924-02-17 The Night Hawk 'The Hawk'
1923-08-19 The Miracle Baby Neil Allison
1923-07-08 Desert Driven Bob
1923-04-01 Crashin' Thru Blake
1923-01-21 Canyon of the Fools Bob
1922-11-05 Good Men and True J. Wesley Pringle
1922-06-30 The Kickback White Horse Harry
1922-03-20 Man to Man Steve Packard
1921-07-24 The Fox Ol' Santa Fe
1921-06-11 Desperate Trails Bart Carson
1921-05-09 The Wallop John Wesley Pringle
1921-04-09 The Freeze-Out Ohio, the Stranger
1921-01-02 Hearts Up David Brent
1920-11-21 West Is West Dick Rainboldt
1920-10-31 Sundown Slim Sundown Slim
1920-08-23 Blue Streak McCoy Job McCoy
1920-07-01 'If Only' Jim Jim Golden
1920-06-28 Human Stuff James 'Jim' Pierce
1920-05-03 Bullet Proof Pierre Winton
1920-03-22 Overland Red Overland Red
1919-12-21 Marked Men Cheyenne Harry
1919-11-29 A Gun Fightin' Gentleman Cheyenne Harry
1919-11-03 Rider of the Law Jim Kyneton
1919-08-18 The Ace of the Saddle Cheyenne Harry Henderson
1919-06-29 The Outcasts of Poker Flat Square Shootin' Harry Lanyon / John Oakhurst
1919-06-09 Riders of Vengeance Cheyenne Harry
1919-05-05 Bare Fists Cheyenne Harry
1919-03-24 A Fight For Love Cheyenne Harry
1919-01-03 Roped Cheyenne Harry
1918-10-06 Three Mounted Men Cheyenne Harry
1918-08-17 A Woman's Fool Lin McLean
1918-07-05 Hell Bent Cheyenne Harry
1918-04-22 The Scarlet Drop Harry Ridge
1918-03-18 Thieves' Gold Cheyenne Harry
1918-02-25 Wild Women Cheyenne Harry
1918-01-28 The Phantom Riders Cheyenne Harry
1917-12-24 Bucking Broadway Cheyenne Harry
1917-10-29 A Marked Man Cheyenne Harry
1917-09-30 The Secret Man Cheyenne Harry
1917-08-27 Straight Shooting Cheyenne Harry
1917-08-13 Cheyenne's Pal Cheyenne Harry
1917-08-07 The Soul Herder Cheyenne Harry
1917-07-17 Six-Shooter Justice Cheyenne Harry
1917-07-07 The Wrong Man Jack Wilson
1917-06-26 The Golden Bullet Jack
1917-06-11 The Mysterious Outlaw Buck Lessen
1917-06-05 The Almost Good Man Dick Glenning
1917-05-22 A 44-Calibre Mystery Sheriff Cheyenne Harry
1917-05-15 The Honor of an Outlaw Cheyenne Harry
1917-04-10 Hair-Trigger Burke Hair Trigger Burke
1917-03-26 The Fighting Gringo William 'Red' Saunders
1917-03-24 Goin' Straight Cheyenne Harry
1917-03-10 The Drifter Cheyenne Harry
1917-02-10 The Outlaw and the Lady Cheyenne Harry
1917-01-13 The Bad Man of Cheyenne Cheyenne Harry
1917-01-06 Blood Money Cheyenne Harry
1916-11-17 Guilty Ramon Valentine
1916-10-21 The Conspiracy Dick Olney
1916-09-11 Behind the Lines Dr. Ralph Hamlin
1916-08-24 The Devil's Own Shifty
1916-08-17 A Woman's Eyes Tom Horn
1916-08-07 Love's Lariat Sky High
1916-07-29 For the Love of a Girl Black La Rue
1916-07-08 The Committee on Credentials Ballaret Bill
1916-06-27 The Jackals of a Great City Tom Wayne
1916-06-18 The Three Godfathers Bob Sangster
1916-05-27 The Wedding Guest The Squarest Sheriff Alive
1916-04-22 The Passing of Hell's Crown Blaze
1916-02-12 The Harbor Transportation Trust Tom Larnigan
1916-02-07 A Knight of the Range Cheyenne Harry
1916-02-05 The Insurance Swindlers Tom Larnigan
1916-01-31 Secret Love Fergus Derrick
1916-01-29 Old King Coal Tom Larnigan
1916-01-22 America Saved from War Tom Larnigan
1916-01-15 The Railroad Monopoly Tom Larnigan
1916-01-08 Grinding Life Down Tom Larnigan
1916-01-01 The Power of the People Tom Larnigan
1915-12-11 Graft Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12)
1915-09-27 Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings Miles Rand
1915-08-16 Just Jim Jim
1915-07-12 As It Happened The New Foreman
1915-07-10 Old Offenders Norris
1915-06-24 Her Convert The Converted Cracksman
1915-06-19 The Way Out The Bandit
1915-06-04 Her Dormant Love Dandy Dick - The Fugitive
1915-05-29 Truth Stranger Than Fiction Crook
1915-05-17 The Canceled Mortgage 1st Road Agent
1915-05-08 A Day's Adventure Hogan - Leader of the Crooks
1915-05-01 A Double Winning 2nd Sportsman
1915-04-12 The Gambler's I.O.U. Dave Dawson
1915-04-09 The Miser's Legacy Jackson - The Crook
1915-04-02 The Sheriff's Dilemma The Sheriff
1915-03-25 The Love Transcendent The Prospector
1915-03-18 His Desperate Deed Burleigh
1915-02-22 The Heart of a Bandit Texas Pete - the Bandit
1914-11-02 McVeagh of the South Seas Cyril Bruce McVeagh
1914-06-10 The Master Cracksman Gentleman Joe, the Cracksman
1914-04-24 Brute Force In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
1914-03-12 Her Hand Ivan
1914-03-08 Judith of Bethulia Assyrian Traitor
1914-02-23 Her Father's Silent Partner
1914-02-14 A Nest Unfeathered The Foreman
1914-01-26 His Fireman's Conscience Engineer Daily
1914-01-17 Waifs
1914-01-12 Concentration First Son
1913-12-27 The Abandoned Well The Adopted Son
1913-12-22 For Her Government
1913-11-24 All for Science The Young Man
1913-11-20 The Detective's Stratagem Keene, the Detective
1913-11-01 The Stopped Clock The Detective
1913-10-25 Madonna of the Storm
1913-10-20 The Van Nostrand Tiara Society Detective
1913-10-02 A Tender-Hearted Crook The Thief
1913-09-22 The Law and His Son Manning
1913-09-13 The Stolen Treaty The Detective
1913-09-08 A Modest Hero
1913-09-05 The Strong Man's Burden Bob - the Younger Brother
1913-08-27 Black and White
1913-08-25 The Crook and the Girl The Crook
1913-08-21 The Work Habit The Son-in-Law
1913-08-07 Under the Shadow of the Law The Convict
1913-08-02 When Love Forgives Second Criminal
1913-08-01 I Was Meant for You Luke
1913-07-28 The Vengeance of Galora A Prospector
1913-07-27 A Misappropriated Turkey The Bartender
1913-07-24 The Mirror First Tramp
1913-07-14 A Gambler's Honor The Gambler
1913-06-30 A Gamble with Death The Cowpuncher
1913-06-26 In Diplomatic Circles The Butler
1913-06-15 The Switchtower
1913-06-12 The Well Giuseppe, the Farmhand
1913-06-10 The Enemy's Baby Miller
1913-06-09 Red Hicks Defies the World In Crowd (uncredited)
1913-06-05 The Sorrowful Shore The Widowed Father
1913-06-02 The Ranchero's Revenge The Schemer
1913-05-29 A Dangerous Foe The 'Bull'
1913-05-19 Olaf—An Atom Olaf, an Atom
1913-05-10 The Stolen Loaf The Butler
1913-05-05 The Tenderfoot's Money The Gambler
1913-05-01 If We Only Knew The Sailor
1913-04-21 The Left-Handed Man The Left-Handed Thief
1913-04-17 A Frightful Blunder The Superintendent
1913-04-07 The Stolen Bride The Husband
1913-04-03 The Hero of Little Italy Tony
1913-03-29 The Sheriff's Baby Second Bandit
1913-03-20 Near To Earth
1913-03-15 The Unwelcome Guest The Sheriff
1913-03-08 Broken Ways The Sheriff
1913-03-06 The Wrong Bottle
1913-02-27 Love in an Apartment Hotel The Thief
1913-02-24 A Chance Deception Raffles
1913-02-10 Oil and Water The Stage Manager / At Dinner
1913-02-03 Brothers The Mother's Favorite Son
1913-01-16 An Adventure in the Autumn Woods Third Thief
1913-01-13 Pirate Gold
1913-01-06 The Telephone Girl and the Lady The Thief
1912-12-23 A Cry for Help The Thief
1912-12-16 The Burglar’s Dilemma Older Crook
1912-12-12 My Hero Indian
1912-12-02 Brutality At Theatre
1912-11-21 The Informer The Confederate Corporal
1912-11-04 Heredity The White Renegade Father
1912-10-31 The Musketeers of Pig Alley Snapper's Sidekick
1912-10-24 The Painted Lady At Ice Cream Festival
1912-10-21 The One She Loved The Neighbor's Friend
1912-10-14 In the Aisles of the Wild Bob Cole
1912-10-03 A Feud in the Kentucky Hills 2nd Clan Member
1912-09-29 So Near, Yet So Far A Thief
1912-09-22 Friends Bob Kyne - the Prospector
1912-09-19 Two Daughters of Eve In Audience
1912-09-09 An Unseen Enemy The Safecracker
1910-05-24 Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910-01-01 Gentleman Joe