Lucas completed Trader Horn: The Journey Back, a remembrance of the 1931 adventure film featuring the elder Carey. Carey attempted to produce a feature film called Comanche Stallion, a project which John Ford had considered making in the early 1960s, based on the 1958 book by Tom Millstead. Personal life He married Marilyn Fix, daughter of actor Paul Fix, in 1944. They had four children, Steven, Melinda, Thomas and Patricia. Carey wrote an autobiography, Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company, which was published in 1996. Death Carey died of natural causes in a hospice on Thursday, December 27, 2012, in Santa Barbara at the age of 91. His ashes are interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors included his wife, the former actress Marilyn Frances Fix Carey (died 25 April 2017); a son, Thomas; two daughters, Melinda and Patricia; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son Steven Carey, who died in 1989. At the time of his death, he was reported to be the last living member of the John Ford Stock Company, though in reality John Wayne's son Patrick Wayne survives him. Selected filmography Film Desperate Trails (1921) as Young Baby (uncredited) Rolling Home (1946) as Dobey Pursued (1947) as Prentice Red River (1948) as Dan Latimer Moonrise (1948) as Jimmy Biff Blood on the Moon (1948) as Cowboy (uncredited) 3 Godfathers (1948) as William Kearney ("The Albilene Kid") She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) as 2nd Lt. Ross Pernell Wagon Master (1950) as Sandy Owens Copper Canyon (1950) as Lt. Ord Rio Grande (1950) as Trooper Daniel 'Sandy' Boone Warpath (1951) as Capt. Gregson Cattle Drive (1951) as Train Passenger (uncredited) The Wild Blue Yonder (1951) as Sgt. Shaker Schuker Monkey Business (1952) as Reporter (uncredited) Niagara (1953) as Taxi Driver (uncredited) San Antone (1953) as Dobe Frakus Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as Winslow - Olympic Team (uncredited) Sweethearts on Parade (1953) as Jim Riley, aka James Whitcomb Riley Island in the Sky (1953) as Ralph Hunt Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) as Griff Rhys Silver Lode (1954) as Johnson The Outcast (1954) as Bert The Long Gray Line (1955) as Dwight Eisenhower House of Bamboo (1955) as John (uncredited) Mister Roberts (1955) as Stefanowski Spin and Marty: The Movie (1955) as Bill Burnett The Searchers (1956) as Brad Jorgenson The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)