Western movie character actor Harry Carey Jr dies at 91

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - Veteran character actor Harry Carey Jr, who appeared in scores of television shows and films including nine of famed movie director John Ford's classic Hollywood Westerns, has died at age 91, his family said on Friday.

Carey, a frequent supporting player in films starring John Wayne, died peacefully of natural causes on Thursday morning in the seaside town of Santa Barbara, California, surrounded by family members, said his daughter, Melinda Carey.

"No cancer or nothing, he just got old," she said of her father, who is survived by his wife of 68 years, Marilyn, and three adult children.

Carey's more notable big-screen credits included a co-starring role with John Wayne in Ford's 1948 outlaw film 3 Godfathers, the role of a young calvary officer in Ford's 1949 western She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, also with Wayne, and a turn decades later in a saloon scene in the 1990 sci-fi comedy Back to the Future Part III. In all, he made 11 movie appearances with Wayne.