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."
266 movies
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000·10.0
Legends of the West
1992·0.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972·7.3
Directed by John Ford
1971·7.0
Film Fun
1955·5.3
So Dear to My Heart
1948·6.6
Red River
1948·7.3
The Sea of Grass
1947·6.1
Angel and the Badman
1947·6.4
Duel in the Sun
1946·6.4
China's Little Devils
1945·6.0
The Great Moment
1944·5.8
Happy Land
1943·7.1
Air Force
1943·6.5
The Spoilers
1942·6.2
Among the Living
1941·6.1
Sundown
1941·5.6
Parachute Battalion
1941·6.3
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941·6.6
They Knew What They Wanted
1940·6.0
Beyond Tomorrow
1940·6.1
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1940·5.7
My Son Is Guilty
1939·7.5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939·7.8
Land of Liberty
1939·9.0
Inside Information
1939·9.0
Street of Missing Men
1939·8.0
Code of the Streets
1939·7.7
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939·6.3
The Law West of Tombstone
1938·6.0
King of Alcatraz
1938·6.0
Gateway
1938·7.4
Sky Giant
1938·5.3
You and Me
1938·6.6
Port of Missing Girls
1938·7.0
Danger Patrol
1937·6.4
Annapolis Salute
1937·6.7
Souls at Sea
1937·6.5
Born Reckless
1937·5.4
Border Cafe
1937·7.0
Kid Galahad
1937·7.1
Lest We Forget
1937·7.0
Racing Lady
1937·6.0
Aces Wild
1936·8.0
The Accusing Finger
1936·5.8
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936·6.7
The Last Outlaw
1936·6.3
Little Miss Nobody
1936·7.5
Sutter's Gold
1936·7.0
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936·6.9
Ghost Town
1936·4.3
The Last of the Clintons
1935·7.0
Wild Mustang
1935·10.0
Barbary Coast
1935·6.4
Powdersmoke Range
1935·10.0
Rustler's Paradise
1935·8.0
Wagon Trail
1935·4.2
Man of the Forest
1933·6.3
Sunset Pass
1933·8.0
Buffalo Stampede
1933·4.1
The Film Parade
1933·8.0
The Devil Horse
1932·5.7
The Night Rider
1932·8.0
The Last of the Mohicans
1932·6.8
Border Devils
1932·6.0
The Movie Album
1932·7.5
Law and Order
1932·5.0
Without Honor
1932·5.4
Cavalier of the West
1931·5.1
Bad Company
1931·5.0
The Vanishing Legion
1931·8.5
Trader Horn
1931·5.4
The Border Patrol
1928·10.0
Burning Bridges
1928·10.0
The Trail of '98
1928·6.1
Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927·8.0
A Little Journey
1927·8.0
Satan Town
1926·7.0
The Frontier Trail
1926·10.0
The Seventh Bandit
1926·10.0
Driftin' Thru
1926·7.0
The Man from Red Gulch
1925·8.0
The Prairie Pirate
1925·9.0
The Bad Lands
1925·9.0
The Texas Trail
1925·9.0
Beyond the Border
1925·9.0
Silent Sanderson
1925·7.0
Soft Shoes
1925·7.5
The Flaming Forties
1924·9.0
Roaring Rails
1924·6.9
Tiger Thompson
1924·9.0
The Lightning Rider
1924·9.0
The Night Hawk
1924·8.0
The Miracle Baby
1923·9.0
Desert Driven
1923·8.0
Crashin' Thru
1923·10.0
Canyon of the Fools
1923·8.0
Good Men and True
1922·7.0
The Kickback
1922·9.0
Man to Man
1922·7.0
The Fox
1921·9.0
Desperate Trails
1921·7.0
The Wallop
1921·6.5
The Freeze-Out
1921·7.0
Hearts Up
1921·8.0
West Is West
1920·7.0
Sundown Slim
1920·8.0
Blue Streak McCoy
1920·10.0
'If Only' Jim
1920·8.0
Human Stuff
1920·10.0
Bullet Proof
1920·9.0
Overland Red
1920·9.0
Marked Men
1919·6.5
A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
1919·6.0
Rider of the Law
1919·7.0
The Ace of the Saddle
1919·5.0
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919·6.0
Riders of Vengeance
1919·6.5
Bare Fists
1919·5.0
A Fight For Love
1919·6.0
Roped
1919·7.0
Three Mounted Men
1918·4.5
A Woman's Fool
1918·4.0
Hell Bent
1918·5.6
The Scarlet Drop
1918·4.7
Thieves' Gold
1918·4.5
Wild Women
1918·4.5
The Phantom Riders
1918·4.5
Bucking Broadway
1917·5.6
A Marked Man
1917·4.5
The Secret Man
1917·5.0
Straight Shooting
1917·6.1
Cheyenne's Pal
1917·4.5
The Soul Herder
1917·4.5
Six-Shooter Justice
1917·0.0
The Wrong Man
1917·0.0
The Golden Bullet
1917·0.0
The Mysterious Outlaw
1917·0.0
The Almost Good Man
1917·0.0
A 44-Calibre Mystery
1917·0.0
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917·0.0
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917·0.0
The Fighting Gringo
1917·0.0
Goin' Straight
1917·0.0
The Drifter
1917·7.0
The Outlaw and the Lady
1917·0.0
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917·0.0
Blood Money
1917·0.0
Guilty
1916·10.0
The Conspiracy
1916·9.0
Behind the Lines
1916·0.0
The Devil's Own
1916·9.0
A Woman's Eyes
1916·0.0
Love's Lariat
1916·0.0
For the Love of a Girl
1916·9.0
The Committee on Credentials
1916·0.0
The Jackals of a Great City
1916·9.0
The Three Godfathers
1916·0.0
The Wedding Guest
1916·7.0
The Passing of Hell's Crown
1916·0.0
The Night Riders
1916·0.0
The Harbor Transportation Trust
1916·0.0
A Knight of the Range
1916·5.0
The Insurance Swindlers
1916·0.0
Secret Love
1916·0.0
Old King Coal
1916·0.0
America Saved from War
1916·0.0
The Railroad Monopoly
1916·0.0
Grinding Life Down
1916·0.0
The Power of the People
1916·0.0
Graft
1915·0.0
Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
1915·0.0
Just Jim
1915·0.0
As It Happened
1915·0.0
Old Offenders
1915·0.0
Her Convert
1915·0.0
The Way Out
1915·0.0
Her Dormant Love
1915·0.0
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
1915·0.0
The Canceled Mortgage
1915·10.0
A Day's Adventure
1915·0.0
A Double Winning
1915·9.0
The Gambler's I.O.U.
1915·0.0
The Miser's Legacy
1915·0.0
The Sheriff's Dilemma
1915·0.0
The Love Transcendent
1915·7.0
His Desperate Deed
1915·9.0
The Heart of a Bandit
1915·0.0
McVeagh of the South Seas
1914·4.7
The Master Cracksman
1914·0.0
Brute Force
1914·5.3
Her Hand
1914·8.0
Judith of Bethulia
1914·6.1
Her Father's Silent Partner
1914·0.0
A Nest Unfeathered
1914·0.0
His Fireman's Conscience
1914·0.0
Waifs
1914·0.0
Concentration
1914·0.0
The Abandoned Well
1913·0.0
For Her Government
1913·9.0
All for Science
1913·7.0
The Detective's Stratagem
1913·7.0
The Stopped Clock
1913·9.0
Madonna of the Storm
1913·0.0
The Van Nostrand Tiara
1913·9.0
A Tender-Hearted Crook
1913·0.0
The Law and His Son
1913·8.0
The Stolen Treaty
1913·0.0
A Modest Hero
1913·0.0
The Strong Man's Burden
1913·7.0
Black and White
1913·0.0
The Crook and the Girl
1913·0.0
The Work Habit
1913·9.0
Under the Shadow of the Law
1913·6.0
When Love Forgives
1913·8.0
I Was Meant for You
1913·10.0
The Vengeance of Galora
1913·0.0
A Misappropriated Turkey
1913·0.0
The Mirror
1913·0.0
A Gambler's Honor
1913·0.0
A Gamble with Death
1913·10.0
In Diplomatic Circles
1913·10.0
The Switchtower
1913·5.0
The Well
1913·0.0
The Enemy's Baby
1913·0.0
Red Hicks Defies the World
1913·10.0
The Sorrowful Shore
1913·0.0
The Ranchero's Revenge
1913·0.0
A Dangerous Foe
1913·8.0
Olaf—An Atom
1913·0.0
The Stolen Loaf
1913·0.0
The Tenderfoot's Money
1913·9.0
If We Only Knew
1913·5.0
The Left-Handed Man
1913·0.0
A Frightful Blunder
1913·7.0
The Stolen Bride
1913·0.0
The Hero of Little Italy
1913·0.0
The Sheriff's Baby
1913·5.5
Near To Earth
1913·0.0
The Unwelcome Guest
1913·5.0
Broken Ways
1913·0.0
The Wrong Bottle
1913·0.0
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913·0.0
A Chance Deception
1913·0.0
Oil and Water
1913·0.0
Brothers
1913·0.0
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
1913·0.0
Pirate Gold
1913·0.0
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913·5.7
A Cry for Help
1912·0.0
The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912·5.3
My Hero
1912·0.0
Brutality
1912·0.0
The Informer
1912·0.0
Heredity
1912·0.0
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912·6.2
The Painted Lady
1912·5.7
The One She Loved
1912·0.0
In the Aisles of the Wild
1912·0.0
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912·4.5
So Near, Yet So Far
1912·5.9
Friends
1912·5.5
Two Daughters of Eve
1912·0.0
An Unseen Enemy
1912·5.6
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910·1.8
Gentleman Joe
1910·0.0