Harry Carey Jr.

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Birthday:

16 May 1921, Saugus, California, USA

Birth Name:

Henry George Carey

Height:

185 cm

Harry Carey, Jr., had been reliable character actor for decades, mostly in Westerns, before he retired. He is the son of the actor Harry Carey and the actress Olive Carey. He was born on his parents' 1000-acre ranch near Saugus, in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, which is now next door to Santa Clarita, a large town that certainly did not exist in 1947 or for decades longer. Thus, the young Harry Carey, Jr., grew up among cattle and horses at the ranch. Because of a large group of Navajo Indians who worked on his parents' ranch, he learned to speak the Navajo language at the same time that he was learning to speak English.During World War II, Carey enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and he served in the Pacific Theater first as a Navy medical corpsman. However, he was transferred back to the United States (against his wishes) to serve under his father's good friend, the director John Ford, in making movies for the Navy (training films)and the O.S.S. (propaganda films).After World War II ended, Carey tried to make a career in singing, but he was not successful at this. Hence, he moved into acting, and after a couple of small acting parts, he was given a chance to work in a motion picture with his father, the John Wayne film Red River (1948). (However, the father and the son did not have any scenes with one another). After the death of Harry Carey, Sr., in 1946, Mr. Ford gave the younger Carey a leading role in the movie that Ford dedicated to the memory of Harry Carey, Sr., in 1948, 3 Godfathers (1948).As a full-fledged member of the noted John Ford Stock Company, Carey, Jr., appeared in many of Mr. Ford's epic Westerns during the following two decades. Carey also starred in a series-within-a-series on TV, The Adventures of Spin and Marty (1955), which was shown as a part of The Mickey Mouse Club (1955). Very boyish looks characterized Carey's early years, but he matured into a strong and familiar character actor over the following four decades, and he acted in scores of films and TV programs in his long career. Carey, Jr., is married to Marilyn Fix Carey, the daughter of the actor Paul Fix. Show less «

John Ford could see, in detail, something going on two hundred yards away. And probably hear every word, even though he said, "What?" all th...Show more »

John Ford could see, in detail, something going on two hundred yards away. And probably hear every word, even though he said, "What?" all the time. He never missed a thing. He knew what was going on behind him and we never caught him looking. When he was very old, he did have a cataract removed from his left eye and wore a patch over it afterwards because he said it was overly sensitive to light. But most of us believed it was because it was the ham in him that caused him to wear it. I loved him like a father and so did the rest of the gang, but we all felt that he was playing his role a lot of the time. He always wore dark glasses though, so you could never see where he was looking. His daughter Barbara always said, "He didn't want you to see those soft, kindly eyes.". Show less «

I loved Duke [John Wayne] and he loved me. The thing is, I don't think he ever forgave me for being the son of Harry Carey. Harry Carey was ...Show more »

I loved Duke [John Wayne] and he loved me. The thing is, I don't think he ever forgave me for being the son of Harry Carey. Harry Carey was his absolute hero. Show less «

My journey has been that of a character actor. I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women w...Show more »

My journey has been that of a character actor. I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for. Show less «