to director Quentin Tarantino, Carey auditioned for the role of Joe Cabot in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Although Carey did not get the role, the screenplay is dedicated to him, among others. Carey's face (from the movie The Killing) is positioned behind George Harrison on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Although Carey's image does not appear on the commercially released version of the cover, it can be seen on outtake photos from the Sgt. Pepper session. Carey also portrays the character Charles Buster Rilla, a deranged gunman, in the 1966 episode “Quaker Girl” (S12E12) on the long-running Western Gunsmoke. He has a minor role as well as Bert in "Ransom for a Dead Man", a pilot for the series Columbo, which guest-stars Lee Grant and originally aired on March 1, 1971. Carey reprised that role in the Columbo episode "Dead Weight", which guest-stars Eddie Albert and Suzanne Pleshette and was first broadcast on October 27, 1971. The World's Greatest Sinner Carey wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the 1962 feature The World's Greatest Sinner, whose music soundtrack was scored by a young, pre-Mothers of Invention Frank Zappa. Although it did not have wide commercial release, the film achieved cult status through repeated screenings at the "midnight movies" in Los Angeles in the 1960s. During a 1963 appearance on The Steve Allen Show during which he generated musical sounds on bicycles, Zappa talked about scoring the soundtrack for The World's Greatest Sinner, which he called "the world's worst movie." The movie was featured as a midnight show at the TCM Festival in Hollywood in April 2018. His son Romeo Carey introduced the film. Personal life Carey was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to a family of Italian and Irish descent. Carey and his wife Doris had six children: Romeo, Mario, Velencia, Silvana, Dagmar, and Germain. Carey died of a stroke in 1994 at the age of 65 in Los Angeles. His body is interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Partial filmography Ace in the Hole (a.k.a. The Big Carnival) (1951) Across the Wide Missouri (1951) – Baptiste DuNord (uncredited) Hellgate (1952) – Wyand (uncredited) Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952) – Crockett Pace (uncredited) White Witch Doctor (1953) – Jarrett Crime Wave (1953) – Johnny Haslett (uncredited) The Wild One (1953) – Chino's Boy #1 (uncredited) Alaska Seas (1954) – Wycoff East of Eden