Harry Carey

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Birth Name: Henry DeWitt Carey II

Born: 16 January 1878 Died: 21 September 1947

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 0"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Olive Carey

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Silent Film Actors (447 items)
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Published 11 years, 3 months ago

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Actors (392 items)
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Published 12 years, 2 months ago

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Academy Awards nominated performances I've seen (446 items)
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Hollywood Walk of Fame - C (177 items)
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Published 9 years, 8 months ago

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Description: Born in New York City to a Judge of Special Sessions who was also president of a sewing machine company. Grew up on City Island, New York. Attended Hamilton Military Academy and turned down an appointment to West Point to attend New York University, where his law school classmates included future New York City mayor James J. Walker. 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 ... (more)