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:

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.


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.


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


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Macdonald Carey Facts
His very first roles on both Broadway ("Lady in the Dark") and film (Dr. Broadway (1942)) were leading parts.

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

On Broadway in the hit musical "Lady in the Dark" starring Gertrude Lawrence. Paramount bought the rights to the musical and signed Macdonald to a seven-year contract. When they finally got around to making the movie version, Macdonald was serving WWII duty with the Marines. Ray Milland was cast in his role opposite Ginger Rogers.

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