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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's 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."
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Sunday, September 21, 1947
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Works 131
1928
The Trail of '98Jack Locasto
1931
Trader HornAloysius "Trader" Horn
1935
Barbary CoastJed Slocum
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonPresident of the Senate
1941
The Shepherd of the HillsDaniel Howitt
1941
Among the LivingDoctor Ben Saunders
1941
SundownDewey
1942
The SpoilersAl Dextry
1943
Air ForceCrew Chief
1946
Duel in the SunLem Smoot
1947
Angel and the BadmanMarshal Wistful McClintock
1947
The Sea of GrassDoc J. Reid
1948
Red RiverMr. Melville
1948
So Dear to My HeartHead Judge at County Fair
1971
Directed by John FordHimself (archived footage)
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