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I loved Duke [John Wayne] and he loved me. The thing is, I don’t think he ever forgave me for being the son of Harry Carey. Harry Carey was his absolute hero.
My journey has been that of a character actor. I’ve worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I’ve worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
Rio Bravo (1959) was made because I didn’t like a picture called High Noon (1952). I saw “High Noon” at about the same time I saw another western picture, and we were talking about western pictures and they asked me if I liked it, and I said, “Not particularly”. I didn’t think a good sheriff was going to go running around town like a chicken with his head off asking for help, and finally his Quaker wife had to save him. That isn’t my idea of a good western sheriff. I said that a good sheriff would turn around and say, “How good are you? Are you good enough to take the best man they’ve got?” The fellow would probably say no, and he’d say, “Well, then I’d just have to take care of you”. And that scene was in “Rio Bravo”.
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