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Harry was part of film history a link to the earliest days because of his parents a link to the golden days of Hollywood because of his association with Ford and Wayne a link to the halcyon days of tv westerns with his work from the early 1950s and finally, as a living historical treasure as he worked with today's directors, doing films like Mask, Gremlins, Back to the Future: Part 3 and Tombstone. He is also survived by 3 children 3 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. He wrote a memoir in 1994 and entitled it "A Company of Heroes: My Life As an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company". In 1944 he married the daughter of fellow character player Paul Fix he and Marilyn had been married 68 years at his death. In the mid to late 1950s, Harry was a regular on the "Spin & Marty" segment of Disney's Mickey Mouse Club.
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His television work included many of the top western series, including episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Have Gun-Will Travel, Wagon Train, Laramie, The Rifleman, and Branded. He worked with John Wayne numerous times, in addition to those listed he also appeared with Duke in Red River, Big Jake, and Cahill US Marshal. His Ford films include The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, 3 Godfathers, Wagonmaster, The Long Gray Line, Mister Roberts, Two Rode Together and Cheyenne Autumn. He is reported to be the last member of the so-called John Ford Stock Company of actors. Though his last acting work was in 1997, he did make many appearances in documentary work and at film festivals where he would discuss his family director John Ford John Wayne and film-making during the golden age. The son of actors Harry Carey and Olive Carey, Carey Jr.'s career spanned more than a half-century of active work on the screen. At the risk of this becoming more of an "obituary column", I must report the death of another of the great character actors.