Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars, usually cast as a Western hero.

One of his best known performances is as the president of the United States Senate in the drama film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

When sound films arrived, Carey displayed an assured, gritty baritone voice that suited his rough-hewn screen personality.

Carey starred in a variety show produced at Treasure Island, the Navy base in San Francisco Bay, in May 1944.

He "thrilled the audience with his cowboy hit tunes" on a show with a "hillbilly theme a la swing"--an odd promotional concept occasioned because the all-Black Navy band backing him up had become one of the most renowned swing bands in the area since arriving at Treasure Island in October 1943.

They purchased a 1,000-acre[2] ranch in Saugus, California, north of Los Angeles, which was later turned into Tesoro Adobe Historic Park in 2005.

A long-time cigar smoker, Harry Carey died in 1947 at the age of 69 from coronary thrombosis, which is believed to have been aggravated by a bite from a black widow spider a month earlier.

[14] In Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford, author Scott Eyman states that lung cancer was the cause of death.

[16] For his contributions to the film industry, Harry Carey has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1521 Vine Street.

In 1987, his name was emblazoned along the Walk of the Western Stars on Main Street in Old Town Newhall in Santa Clarita, California.