Harry Carey, Jr.

[Bob Wright]

Best known as Lt. Pennell in She wore a yellow Ribbon, Harry Carey Jr. appeared in movies before he was one year old. He played the role of an infant.

This in the movie Desperate Trails (1921), which starred his famous father. Both father and son had a long run in the movies.

Bob Wright

 

[Colonialgirl]

We seem to be losing them at a rapid rate lately !!

 

[Ale-8(1)]

He died December 27, 2012.

 

[caryc]

I always recognized Jr. when I saw him, not so with senior. Nothing against senior, I guess I just wasn't exposed to him as much.

 

[Bob Wright]

I always recognized Jr. when I saw him, not so with senior. Nothing against senior, I guess I just wasn't exposed to him as much.

Harry Carey was recognizable very easily by those who had seen him in the movies. He, like Ben Johnson never seemed to be acting, just natural easy going men.

Harry Carey Sr. played in a movie set early in WW II about a B-17 crew. The B-17 was one of the early models with the blister waist positions. He played an old hand sergeant in transit, as I recall. The movie was Air Force.

He also played as John Wayne's estranged father in Shepherd of the Hills.

Harry Carey Sr.'s famous pose was standing and clasping his hand across his chest and grasping his upper arm of the opposite side. John Wayne struck that same pose in the closing scenes of The Searchers. This was a poignant scene to Olive Carey, Harry's widow and Harry Jr.'s mother, she was Mrs. Jorgensen in that movie.


Bob Wright

 

[Jeepnik]

I always recognized Jr. when I saw him, not so with senior. Nothing against senior, I guess I just wasn't exposed to him as much.

Harry Carey was recognizable very easily by those who had seen him in the movies. He, like Ben Johnson never seemed to be acting, just natural easy going men.

Harry Carey Sr. played in a movie set early in WW II about a B-17 crew. The B-17 was one of the early models with the blister waist positions. He played an old hand sergeant in transit, as I recall. The movie was Air Force.

He also played as John Wayne's estranged father in Shepherd of the Hills.

Harry Carey Sr.'s famous pose was standing and clasping his hand across his chest and grasping his upper arm of the opposite side. John Wayne struck that same pose in the closing scenes of The Searchers. This was a poignant scene to Olive Carey, Harry's widow and Harry Jr.'s mother, she was Mrs. Jorgensen in that movie.


Bob Wright

Air Force was a pretty good movie. But they did play fast and loose about the tailgun invention. Though the story of that particular B-17 and it's crew, including seniors character was pretty close to the truth.

 

[Acorn]

He died December 27, 2012.

Maybe he got better.

 

[Bob Wright]

He died December 27, 2012.

Maybe he got better.

I've re-read my original post and see no implication that he was still alive.

But, as long as such movies exist, he'll live on.

Bob Wright

 

[exavid]

I thought he might have passed recently too. Guess I read more into your initial post than was there. Either way the result is the same.