
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."

The Vanishing Legion

Street of Missing Men

スミス都へ行く

赤い河

Kid Galahad

Code of the Streets

Soft Shoes

Directed by John Ford

鯊魚島の捕虜

Roaring Rails

My Son Is Guilty

わが心にかくも愛しき

The Shepherd of the Hills

Air Force

You and Me

Gateway

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Barbary Coast

拳銃無宿

白昼の決闘

Souls at Sea

Border Cafe

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

Happy Land

The Spoilers

The Sea of Grass

Judith of Bethulia

Beyond Tomorrow

Among the Living

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Annapolis Salute

Little Miss Nobody

Sunset Pass

Straight Shooting

So Near, Yet So Far

The Trail of '98

They Knew What They Wanted

The Last of the Mohicans

The Law West of Tombstone

King of Alcatraz

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

The Great Moment

An Unseen Enemy

Bucking Broadway

The Painted Lady

Man of the Forest

Friends

The Last of the Clintons

Parachute Battalion

The Last Outlaw

Sundown

Without Honor

Trader Horn

Brute Force

The Burglar’s Dilemma

Racing Lady

Danger Patrol

Hell Bent

Border Devils

Born Reckless

The Sheriff's Baby

The Switchtower

A Knight of the Range

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

A Gun Fightin' Gentleman

The Strong Man's Burden

The Secret Man

Roped

A Fight For Love

Bare Fists

The Unwelcome Guest

Marked Men

The Ace of the Saddle

Rider of the Law

Law and Order

Cavalier of the West

Sky Giant

The Accusing Finger

The Scarlet Drop

McVeagh of the South Seas

Bad Company

Cheyenne's Pal

The Soul Herder

A Marked Man

Thieves' Gold

The Phantom Riders

Wild Women

Three Mounted Men

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

Desperate Trails

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

The Freeze-Out

The Devil Horse

China's Little Devils

A Woman's Fool

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

The Wallop

Buffalo Stampede

Wagon Trail

Ghost Town

Riders of Vengeance

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

Bullet Proof

The Committee on Credentials

The Fox

The Bad Lands

In the Aisles of the Wild

Two Daughters of Eve

A Cry for Help

If We Only Knew

Heredity

Brutality

Near To Earth

Concentration

The Heart of a Bandit

Just Jim

The Master Cracksman

The Canceled Mortgage

Graft

The Outlaw and the Lady

The Almost Good Man

A 44-Calibre Mystery

The Golden Bullet

Human Stuff

Inside Information

Burning Bridges

Satan Town

The Frontier Trail

The Seventh Bandit

Driftin' Thru

The Man from Red Gulch

The Texas Trail

Silent Sanderson

Crashin' Thru

Good Men and True

'If Only' Jim

Desert Driven

Tiger Thompson

The Miracle Baby

Overland Red

Legends of the West

The Night Rider

The Prairie Pirate

Port of Missing Girls

Aces Wild

Land of Liberty

The Three Godfathers

West Is West

The Kickback

Sutter's Gold

The Night Hawk

Wild Mustang

Powdersmoke Range

Slide, Kelly, Slide

A Little Journey

Beyond the Border

Broken Ways

The Informer

The One She Loved

The Flaming Forties

The Film Parade

Oil and Water

Behind the Lines

Love's Lariat

Canyon of the Fools

The Border Patrol

Man to Man

Blue Streak McCoy

The Lightning Rider

Olaf—An Atom

The Fighting Gringo

Sundown Slim

Rustler's Paradise

Hearts Up

Lest We Forget

The Night Riders