Harry Carey (actor) - Honors and Homages

Honors and Homages

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Harry Carey has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1521 Vine Street.

As an homage to him, John Wayne held his right elbow with his left hand in the closing shot of The Searchers, imitating a stance Carey himself often used in his films. According to Wayne, both he and Carey's widow Olive (who costarred in the film) wept when the scene was finished.

In 1976, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

In 1987, his name is emblazened along the Walk of the Western Stars on Main Street in Old Town Newhall in Santa Clarita, California.(His son, Harry Carey Jr. was also honored in 2005.)