Harry Carey (January 16, 1878–September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars. January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...

Born Henry DeWitt Carey II in The Bronx, New York, he was the son of a prominent lawyer and judge. He attended Hamilton Military Academy then studied law at New York University. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. ... New York University (NYU) is a large research university in New York City. ...

Althogh Carey received an Oscar nomination for his role as the Vice President in the 1939 film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, he is best rememberd as one of the first stars of the Western film genre. He married actress Olive Fuller Golden (1896-1988) and 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. They appeared together in the 1948 film, Red River, which was filmed late in 1946 and went unreleased for almost two years. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mr. ... Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Harry Carey, Jr. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Red River is a 1948 western film which tells the story of a cattle man who feuds with his adopted son over ownership of their cattle in the middle of a drive. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

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 in the family mausoleum in The Bronx, New York. In 1976, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The incidence of lung cancer is highly correlated with smoking. ... Thrombosis is the formation of a clot or thrombus inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. ... Located in The Bronx, Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. ... The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ... The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum was established in 1955 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ... Downtown Oklahoma City The State Capitol of Oklahoma Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. ...

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Harry Carey has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1521 Vine Street. A small part of the Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of celebrities honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce...

Harry Carey began his film career in 1909. Over the next forty plus years he performed in more than two hundred and fifty films. A few of them are:

• Trader Horn (1930)
• Barbary Coast (1935)
• Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
• Kid Galahad (1937)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• The Spoilers (1942)
• Duel in the Sun (1946)
• Red River (1948)

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See also

• Other notable figures in Western films