Macdonald Carey

Macdonald Carey
Credits
Role	Joe Baxter
Biographical Information
Full Name	Edward Macdonald Carey
Birthdate	March 15, 1913
Birthplace	Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Death Date	March 21, 1994 (age 81)
Death Place	Beverly Hills, California, United States

Macdonald Carey played sporting goods client Joe Baxter in the fourth season episode, "Birdies, Bogeys and Baxter" (1967).

Biography

Macdonald Carey was an American actor. He was born Edward Macdonald Carey on March 15, 1913 in Sioux City, Iowa.

He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in 1935, after attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a year where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He became involved with the drama school at the University of Iowa and decided to become an actor.

Carey toured with the Globe Players. He began to work steadily on radio, including playing Dick Grosvenor on the soap opera Stella Dallas and Ridgeway Tearle in John's Other Wife, both in the early 1940s. He was also in Lights Out.

In 1941, he made his Broadway debut in Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's musical, Lady in the Dark, opposite Gertrude Lawrence, Danny Kaye and Victor Mature. His performance earned him a contract offer from Paramount. The same year, on May 9, he married Elizabeth Crosby Heckscher. They moved to Hollywood. They had six children: Lynn, Lisa, Stevens, Theresa, Edward Macdonald Jr., and Paul. They divorced on September 18, 1969. Later, Carey dated Lois Kraines. The couple remained together from 1973 until Carey's death.

His film career was primarily from the 1940s to 1960s, and he appeared mostly in second-features (aka "B" pictures), with a few A-picture exceptions like Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 Shadow of a Doubt. He became known in Hollywood as "The King of the B's" (much like Lucille Ball, who was known as the "Queen of Bs"). Carey's film credits included Mitchell Leisen's 1942 Take a Letter, Darling, Anthony Mann's 1942 Dr. Broadway, John Farrow's 1942 Wake Island, Mitchell Leisen's 1947 Suddenly It's Spring, Leslie Fenton's 1949 Streets of Laredo, Elliott Nugent's 1949 The Great Gatsby, Mitchell Leisen's 1949 Song of Surrender, John Farrow's 1950 Copper Canyon, Joseph Losey's 1950 The Lawless, Douglas Sirk's 1950 Mystery Submarine, Gordon Douglas' 1951 The Great Missouri Raid, Richard Sale's 1951 Meet Me After the Show and Let's Make It Legal, Don Siegel's 1953 Count the Hours, John Farrow's 1959 John Paul Jones, Philip Dunne's 1959 Blue Denim, Joseph Losey's 1962 The Damned, Harry Keller's 1963 Tammy and the Doctor, and Paul Schrader's 1980 American Gigolo.

During World War II, he served in Air Warning Squadron 3 with missions to Espiritu Santo, Bougainville, and Mindanao.

He first appeared on television in 1950, in the lead role of Jim Kerry in "The Dusty Godmother", an episode of the Studio One series. Between 1950 and 1994, he appeared in over sixty television series, including Lux Video Theatre, The Ford Television Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theatre, Climax!, Suspicion, Zane Grey Theatre, Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The United States Steel Hour, Insight, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, Arrest and Trial, Daniel Boone, Burke's Law, Run for Your Life, Lassie, McMillan & Wife, Police Story, Switch, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Fantasy Island, and Murder, She Wrote.

He was best known for his starring role as Dr. Mark Christian on the television series Dr. Christian (1956-57), as Philadelphia defense attorney Herbert L. Maris on the series Lock Up (1959-1961), and, for three decades, as Dr. Tom Horton, appearing in 3,027 episodes of the soap opera Days of Our Lives (1965-1994).

In September 1991, Carey had a cancerous tumor surgically removed from his lung.

Macdonald Carey died on March 21, 1994 in Beverly Hills, California. He was 81.

Sources

• Macdonald Carey on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on January 27, 2025. Updated on March 24, 2025.
• Macdonald Carey on Wikipedia. Retrieved on March 24, 2025.