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.


Katie Howard: All right, mister, draw! I said, draw!
James Bowie: Sorry, ma'am. Back in Louisiana, when we meet any pretty ladies, we make love to them, we kiss them, spank 'em on occasion... but we never go around shootin' 'em.


Johnny Carter: When you kill a man, he dies just as bad or just as stupid as the moment when you put the bullet in him. If you let him live, he's still got a chance to learn things.
Deputy Lane Travis: Well, that's smart... provided he learns the right things.


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Macdonald Carey Facts
Besides playing the character of Dr. Tom Horton for close to 30 years on the show, he is known for the famous voice over at the beginning of "Days of Our Lives." Even when he left the show and passed away in 1994, the voice over stayed as a tribute.

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

Former wife Elizabeth Heckacher was a Philadelphia socialite who desired to be an actress. The couple met while he was doing radio and she was attending drama school in New York. She gave up her aspirations, however, once they married in 1941 and went on to have six children -- three boys and three girls.

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