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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Warner Archive: Teresa Wright and Macdonald Carey Reunite in Count The Hours (1953)

By KC on Jul 29, 2016 From Classic Movies

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) stars Teresa Wright and Macdonald Carey are reunited a decade later in the thriller Count the Hours (1953), now available on DVD from Warner Archive. When an intruder murders a farmer and his housekeeper, his handyman George Braden (John Craven) is wrongfully accused of the... Read full article


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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.


James Bowie: So this is the mighty Quisima who sat on the council of the white man in Washington. This is Quisima who gave one hand in friendship to his white brothers while the other hand held a knife. This is Quisima whose words is shifting as the wind, whose tongue twists like a river of many branches. this is Quisima, breaker of treaties. Today, the Comanche is held in honor and respect like the mountain that never yields, or the sun that never changes. Tomorrow he will be driven off like a dog that wanders close to a campfire to tkae his place among men.


Jake Davis: While you were singing he couldn't keep his eyes off your voice.


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In addition to daughters Lynn Catherine (born October 29, 1946) and Theresa, his other children were: Steven; Edward Macdonald Jr (born April 22, 1954); Paul; and Lisa (born in 1949).

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.

Grandfather of Aras Baskauskas.

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