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:''This page is about the actor Harry Carey. For the baseball broadcaster with a similar name, see [[Harry Caray]].''
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{{Infobox actor
| name = Harry Carey
| image =
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = Harry Carey in the [[1936]] film ''Aces Wild''
| birthname = Henry DeWitt Carey II
| birthdate = {{birth date|1878|01|16}}
| birthplace = [[The Bronx, New York]], [[United States|U.S.A.]]
| deathdate = {{death date and age|1947|9|21|1878|1|16}}
| deathplace = [[Brentwood, Los Angeles, California]], [[United States|U.S.A.]]
| academyawards = '''Nominated:''' '''[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]''' ([[1939]]) for ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]''
| spouse = [[Olive Carey]] (m. January 1920 – 21 September 1947) (until his death) 2 children<br> Fern Foster (actress)
}}
'''Harry Carey''' ([[January 16]], [[1878]] – [[September 21]], [[1947]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and one of [[silent film]]'s earliest superstars.
==Biography==
Carey was born '''Henry DeWitt Carey II''' in [[The Bronx, New York]], the son of Ella J. Ludlum and Henry DeWitt Carey,<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/celeb/hcary.htm 1<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a prominent lawyer and judge. He attended [[Hamilton Military Academy]] then studied law at [[New York University]]. 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.
Although Carey, one of Hollywood's finest [[character actor]]s of the sound era, received an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nomination for his role as the President of the Senate in the 1939 film, ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'', he is best remembered as one of the first stars of the [[Western film]] genre. He married at least twice and perhaps a third time (census records for 1910 indicate he had a wife named Clare E. Carey, and some references state that he was also married to actress [[Fern Foster]]). His last marriage was to actress [[Olive Fuller Golden]] (1896-1988). They purchased a large ranch in [[Saugus, California]], north of [[Los Angeles]]. Their son, [[Harry Carey, Jr.]] would become a character actor, also most famous for his roles in Westerns. Father and son both appeared (albeit in different scenes) in the 1948 film, ''[[Red River (film)|Red River]]'', which was filmed late in 1946 and went unreleased for almost two years.
Carey made his [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] stage debut in 1940.
A smoker, Harry Carey died in 1947 from a combination of [[lung cancer]], [[emphysema]] and [[coronary thrombosis]], at the age of 69. He was interred in [[Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in the family mausoleum in The Bronx, New York.
==Honors and homages==
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Harry Carey has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1521 Vine Street.
As an homage to him, [[John Wayne]] held his right elbow with his left hand in the closing shot of ''The Searchers'', imitating a stance Carey himself often used in his films. According to Wayne, both he and Carey's widow Olive (who costarred in the film) wept when the scene was finished.
In 1976, he was inducted into the [[Western Performers Hall of Fame]] at the [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]] in [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]].
==Filmography==
{{Main|Harry Carey filmography}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* {{imdb|0002503}}
* {{ibdb|34495}}
* {{Find A Grave|id=8751}}
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