Macdonald Carey - World War II and After

World War II and After

A successful radio actor and stage performer whose credits included the hit Broadway show Lady in the Dark and the 1942 film Wake Island. Carey also appeared in Take a Letter, Darling (1942) and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), filmed in Santa Rosa, California. In 1943, he joined the Marines, and stayed on active duty until 1947.

In 1947, Carey returned to Paramount in Suddenly, It's Spring. He continued with Paramount into the 1950s; by this time he had slipped into more noticeable character roles and transitioned to westerns for a time, such as Copper Canyon (1950), The Great Missouri Raid (1951), Outlaw Territory (1953) and Man or Gun (1958). Carey played patriot Patrick Henry in John Paul Jones (1959). He appeared in Blue Denim (1959), The Damned (known as These Are the Damned in the US) (1963), Tammy and the Doctor (1963), and End of the World (1977).

In 1956, Carey took over the role of the kindly small-town physician Dr. Christian, a character created in the late 1930s by the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt, who had performed the part on radio and in films and had co-written a Dr. Christian novel. Carey portrayed Dr. Christian on syndicated television for one season. Carey also held the starring role of crusading Herb Maris in the 1950s syndicated series Lock-Up. A total of seventy-eight episodes (then considered to be only two full seasons) were made 1959–61, but apparently Carey did not appear in all of them.

In 1957, Carey appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

On February 7, 1958, Carey appeared in the episode "License to Kill" of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater as Tom Baker, a wounded sheriff facing the arrival of unruly cattle drovers. The mayor, played by Jacques Aubuchon, hires Lane Baker, portrayed by John Ericson, as the town marshal to assist the sheriff but against the sheriff's wishes. Lane turns out to be the sheriff's younger brother. The two differ on law enforcement but are eventually reconciled from a long-term family split. Stacy Harris plays Doc Currie, who set Tom Baker's broken arm.

Carey also appeared on CBS's Appointment with Adventure and in "The Incident of the Golden Calf" episode of CBS's Rawhide. He appeared in "The Bill Tawnee Story" of NBC's Wagon Train with Ward Bond. He guest starred in the 1964-1965 sitcom The Bing Crosby Show on ABC.


Read more about this topic:  Macdonald Carey

Famous quotes containing the words and after, world and/or war:

    We look before and after,
    And pine for what is not:
    Our sincerest laughter
    With some pain is fraught;
    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    The child-rearing years are relatively short in our increased life span. It is hard for young women caught between diapers and formulas to believe, but there are years and years of freedom ahead. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I’d relaxed, allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl’s eyes.
    Eda Le Shan (20th century)

    You went to meet the shell’s embrace of fire
    On Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day
    The war seemed over more for you than me,
    But now for me than you the other way.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)