played Custer himself in The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) and played Captain Myles Keogh at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Walt Disney's Tonka in 1959. During this period, Carey also appeared on CBS-TV hit sitcom The Lucy Show. The episode entitled "Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly" was broadcast on April 22, 1963. In that installment, Carey played Howard McClay, a boyfriend of Lucy Carmichael's (played by Lucille Ball). In 1971, Carey guest-starred on the landmark fifth installment of All in the Family, playing Steve, an ex–professional football player friend of Archie Bunker's, who tells Archie he is gay. The episode was entitled "Judging Books by Covers". From 1979 until late 2007, he played the protective Texan patriarch Asa Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. He also appeared in the low-budget horror film Monstroid in 1980. Carey became well known for a series of tongue-in-cheek television commercials for Granny Goose potato chips, in which he self-identified as "Granny Goose", portraying the company's spokesperson as a tough cowboy. A lifelong smoker, Carey was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2006, and underwent chemotherapy. In late March 2007, he was announced to be leaving One Life to Live. He had appeared in one episode in 2003 and one episode of All My Children in 2004. He appeared in an additional nine episodes of One Life to Live between January 3, 2007, and May 16, 2007. Carey turned down an offer to go to recurring status with the show (although he nevertheless did, in fact, make several appearances on the show after his official exit in late 2007, including several appearances in July 2008, with his final appearance having been on December 29, 2008). Personal life In 1949, Carey married Maureen Peppler. They had three children, Jeff, Linda, and Lisa. The marriage ended in a divorce. In 1976, Carey married Colleen Welch. They have two children, Sean and Shannon. Carey was close friends with his on-screen sons, Clint Ritchie and Robert S. Woods. Death On February 6, 2009, Carey died of lung cancer at age 83. Filmography Three Husbands (1950) as Officer McCarthy (uncredited) Operation Pacific (1951) as Lt. (j.g.) Bob Perry I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) as Mason Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) as Red Pardue Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) as Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited) Force of Arms (1951) as