Harry Carey, Jr.
Birthday: 1921-05-16
Place of Birth: Saugus, Santa Clarita, California, USA
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).
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Back to the Future Part III
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc...
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Gremlins
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three i...
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Red River
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive fr...
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The Searchers
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation ...
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Mask
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to liv...
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Big Jake
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grand...
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UFOria
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bu...
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Rio Grande
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of mara...
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Trinity Is Still My Name
The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the s...
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida...
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The Devil's Brigade
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Pursued
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...
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Silver Lode
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by ...
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Moonrise
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one ...
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Island in the Sky
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massi...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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3 Godfathers
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safe...
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Desperate Trails
Bart Carson is in love with Lou and even goes to jail to save Walter A. Walker, a man she says is he...
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The Way West
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The Long Riders
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of ...
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7th Cavalry
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Hor...
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The Great Locomotive Chase
During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South...
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Wagon Master
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terra...
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Crossroads
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson....
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The Long Gray Line
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer a...
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Take a Hard Ride
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to som...
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Mister Roberts
Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War ...
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Cherry 2000
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a...
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The Rare Breed
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Escort West
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his da...
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Dirty Dingus Magee
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Illegally Yours
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The Whales of August
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine....
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The Undefeated
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The River's Edge
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert i...
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Niagara
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Man of the East
By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young ...
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Death of a Gunfighter
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style la...
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Taggart
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills h...
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her ...
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Last Stand at Saber River
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Gun the Man Down
An outlaw is left for dead by his gang after being shot. A year later, he is released from jail with...
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Copper Canyon
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Challenge to White Fang
Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous...
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One More Train to Rob
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in ...
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Bad Jim
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House of Bamboo
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a fo...
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Blood on the Moon
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispu...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis...
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Monkey Business
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the...
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The Studebaker Story
The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into ...
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The Ballad of Josie
A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming....
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One More Time
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers....
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Once Upon a Texas Train
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Nickelodeon
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an ille...
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The Wild Blue Yonder
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between ...
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Warpath
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He fin...
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Noose for a Gunman
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach ro...
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Rolling Home
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of vario...
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Sweethearts on Parade
Cam Ellerby brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young...
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Bandolero!
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John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
Film traces the career of the actor who embodied classic American values like no other - in his film...
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Cahill: United States Marshal
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The Making of 'Rio Grande'
A short documentary about the making of John Ford's "Rio Grande."...
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The Exorcist III
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieuten...
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A Public Affair
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negat...
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The Great Impostor
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and w...
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Ride a Northbound Horse
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is pl...
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Two Rode Together
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages....
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San Antone
After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occu...
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Flashing Spikes
An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phe...
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Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue...
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Something Big
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish thi...
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to...
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Alvarez Kelly
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with catt...
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The Outcast
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father'...
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Cyborg 2087
In the future world of the year 2087, freedom of thought is illegal and the thoughts of the world's ...
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with...
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The Raiders
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad....
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Run, Cougar, Run
In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter ki...
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The Moonshine War
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sig...
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Gundown at Sandoval
In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who kil...
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Kiss Them for Me
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage ...
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The Sunchaser
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing l...
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The Shadow Riders
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and...
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Shenandoah
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of th...
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Breaking In
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his ...
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Endangered Species
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a my...
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Rio Bravo
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young g...
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