Macdonald Carey Overview:

Character actor, Macdonald Carey, was born Edward Macdonald Carey on Mar 15, 1913 in Sioux City, IA. Carey died at the age of 81 on Mar 21, 1994 in Beverly Hills, CA .

MINI BIO:

American leading man, all eyes, eyebrows, and a lazy smile. His film career, already a late starter, was seriously disrupted by four-year service in the US Marines. He was an excellent smiling villain, an ability that remained much underused. An avid writer, he published three volumes of poetry and an autobiography. Died from lung cancer.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Macdonald Carey Quotes:

Miriam Halsworth: We can't be rude to Victor, can we?
Hugh Halsworth: I'd like to make it my life's work.


Jerry Denham: Miriam might like to grab the number-one bachelor in the country.
Hugh Halsworth: I can assure you, my boy, Miriam will cheerfully spit in his eye.


Jack Graham: It seems to go crazy every now and then, like your Uncle Charlie.


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Macdonald Carey Facts
Received his B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1936.

Born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa, he sang baritone in the school choirs and took leads in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas; he received his Masters in drama at the University of Iowa.

Once was a member of the Globe Players where he did compact versions of Shakespeare in Texas. His actor compatriots there included Martha Scott and David Wayne.

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