Harry was in
many John Wayne films and always made a great contribution.
Harry Carey
Jr., a venerable character actor who was believed to be the last surviving
member of director John Ford's legendary western stock company, died
Thursday. He was 91.
Carey, whose
career spanned more than 50 years and included such Ford classics as "She
Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "The Searchers," died of natural
causes in Santa Barbara, said Melinda Carey, a daughter.
"In
recent years, he became kind of the living historian of the modern era,"
film critic Leonard Maltin told The Times on Friday. "He would get hired
on films by young directors who just wanted to work with him, to be one step
away from the legends. Some hired him to just hear his stories between
takes."
Director Joe Dante, who used Carey in his 1984 comic-fantasy
"Gremlins," told The Times in 2003: "You got a lot of free movie
history when you cast him."
The son of
silent-film western star Harry Carey Sr. and his actress wife, Olive, Carey
made more than 100 films. They included "Red River," "Beneath
the 12-Mile Reef," "Big Jake," "Cahill U.S. Marshal,"
"The Long Riders," "The Whales of
August" and 1993's "Tombstone.
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