Harry Carey, Jr.
Born: 1921-05-16 in Saugus, Santa Clarita, California, USA
Died: 2012-12-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Henry George "Harry" Carey Jr. (May 16, 1921 - December 27, 2012) was an American actor. He appeared in more than ninety films including several John Ford westerns as well as numerous television series. The son of actors Harry Carey Sr. and Olive Carey, he attempted a singing career before beginning his acting career in the John Ford Stock Company. Director John Ford became a close friend and collaborator. Carey appeared in such notable Ford films as 3 Godfathers (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Searchers (1956), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), some also featuring appearances by his parents. He became a respected character actor like his father. Carey made four films with director Howard Hawks: Red River (1948), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959 - scenes cut). He also frequently co-starred with actors John Wayne and Ben Johnson, acting together in nine films each. Between 1955 -1957, Carey appeared as ranch counselor Bill Burnett in the serial Spin and Marty, seen on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. In the 1960s, Carey appeared on such western series as Have Gun - Will Travel and The Legend of Jesse James. Later film roles include George Arthur in The Long Riders (1980), Mr. Anderson in Gremlins (1984), aging biker Red in Mask (1985), Joshua Brackett in The Whales of August (1987), saloon old-timer Zeke in Back to the Future Part III (1990), and Marshal Fred White in Tombstone (1993).
Filmography
1997
- Last Stand at Saber River as James Sanford
1996
- The Sunchaser as Cashier
1994
- Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone as Digger Phelps
1993
- Tombstone as Marshall Fred White
- The Making of 'Rio Grande' as Self
1991
1990
- Back to the Future Part III as Saloon Old Timer
- The Exorcist III as Father Kanavan
- Bad Jim as J.C. Lee
1989
- B.L. Stryker as Jones
- Crossbow: The Movie as Mutino
- Breaking In as Shoes
1988
- Once Upon a Texas Train as Herald Fitch
- Illegally Yours as Wally Finnegan
1987
- Crossbow
- Cherry 2000 as Snappy Tom
- The Whales of August as Joshua Brackett
1986
- Crossroads as Bartender
1985
- Mask as Red
1982
- Knight Rider as Josh Morgan
- The Shadow Riders as Pa Traven
- Endangered Species as Dr. Emmer
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1980
- The Long Riders as George Arthur
- Wild Times as Fitz Bragg
1979
1978
- Dallas as Red
- Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid as Deputy Luke
1977
- CHiPs as Grandfather
1976
- Nickelodeon as Dobie
1975
- Take a Hard Ride as Dumper
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Sheriff Pike
- Police Woman
- Challenge to White Fang as John Tarwater
1973
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco as Bo Dobbs
- Banacek as Dean Barrett
- Man of the East as Holy Joe
- Run, Cougar, Run as Barney
1971
- Trinity Is Still My Name as Father
- Big Jake as Pop Dawson
- Directed by John Ford as Self (uncredited)
- Something Big as Joe Pickins
- One More Train to Rob as Red
1970
- The Moonshine War as Arley Stamper
- One More Time as (uncredited)
- Dirty Dingus Magee as Charles Stuart
1969
- The Undefeated as Webster
- My Friend Tony as Grady
- Death of a Gunfighter as Rev. Cork
- Ride a Northbound Horse as Yonder
1968
- The Outcasts
- Bandolero! as Cort Hayjack
- The Devil's Brigade as Capt. Rose
- The Ballad of Josie as Mooney (as Harry Carey)
1967
- Mannix as Floyd Brand
- Cimarron Strip
- The Way West as Mr. McBee
1966
- The Rare Breed as Ed Mabry
- Alvarez Kelly as Cpl. Peterson
- Cyborg 2087 as Jay C
- Billy the Kid Versus Dracula as Ben Dooley
1965
- Run for Your Life as Corey Munson
- Branded
- The Legend of Jesse James as Ellie's Father
- Shenandoah as Jenkins - Rebel Soldier
- Taggart as Lt. Hudson (uncredited)
1964
- Cheyenne Autumn as Trooper Smith (uncredited)
1963
- Redigo
- The Raiders as Jellicoe
1962
- The Virginian as Thad Miley
- Stoney Burke as Jake Rollins
- Flashing Spikes as Man in the Dugout
- A Public Affair as Bill Martin
1961
- Two Rode Together as Ortho Clegg
1960
- Checkmate as Phil Cassidy
- The Tall Man
- The Great Impostor as Dr. Joseph Mornay
- Noose for a Gunman as Jim Ferguson
1959
- Bonanza as Phil Shelton
- Rawhide as Walsh
- Laramie
- Rio Bravo as Harold
- Escort West as Trooper Travis
- Gundown at Sandoval as Ben Jenkins
1958
- The Rifleman as Lt. Paul Holfe
1957
- Perry Mason as District Ranger Frank Deane
- Wagon Train as Charlie Hankins
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Earl Tibner
- Tombstone Territory as Vern Fawcett
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Pete Carter
- The New Adventures of Spin and Marty as Bill Burnett
- The River's Edge as Chet
- Kiss Them for Me as Chuck Roundtree (uncredited)
1956
- The Searchers as Brad Jorgensen
- Broken Arrow as Capt. Ward
- Wire Service as Steve Ward
- Further Adventures of Spin and Marty as Bill Burnett
- The Great Locomotive Chase as William Bensinger
- 7th Cavalry as Cpl. Morrison
- Gun the Man Down as Deputy Lee
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Gunsmoke as Deesha
- The Adventures of Spin and Marty as Bill Burnett
- Mister Roberts as Stefanowski
- House of Bamboo as John (uncredited)
- The Long Gray Line as Dwight D. Eisenhower
1954
- Lassie
- Climax!
- Public Defender as Dan
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Ben Jenkins
- Silver Lode as Johnson
- Waterfront as Roy Walker
- The Outcast as Bert
1953
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Winslow, Olympic Team Member (uncredited)
- Niagara as Taxi Driver
- Island in the Sky as Ralph Hunt, Moon's co-pilot
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef as Griff Rhys
- San Antone as Dobe Frakus
- Sweethearts on Parade as Jim Riley
- The Studebaker Story as Clem Studebaker
1952
- Chevron Theatre
- Monkey Business as Reporter (uncredited)
1951
- Racket Squad
- Warpath as Capt. Gregson
- The Wild Blue Yonder as Sgt. Shaker Schuker
1950
- Rio Grande as Trooper Daniel 'Sandy' Boone
- Wagon Master as Sandy
- Copper Canyon as Lt. Ord
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Jay Thomasson
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon as 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Red River as Dan Latimer
- 3 Godfathers as William Kearney ('The Abilene Kid')
- Blood on the Moon as Cowboy (uncredited)
- Moonrise as Jimmy Biff
1947
- Pursued as Prentice
1946
- Rolling Home as Dobey
1921
- Desperate Trails as Young Baby (uncredited)