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Charles Ray


Charles Ray

Birthday:

03/15/1891

Place of birth:

Jacksonville, Illinois, USA:

Biography:

From Wikipedia Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young wholesome hicks in silent comedy films. Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and moved to Springfield as a child where he attended elementary school. He then moved to Arizona for a time before finally relocating to Los Angeles where he finished his education. He initially began his career on the stage before working for director Thomas H. Ince as a film extra in December 1912. He appeared in several bit parts before moving on to supporting roles. Ray's break came in 1915 when he appeared opposite Frank Keenan in the historical war drama The Coward. Ray's popularity increased after appearing in a series of films which cast him in juvenile roles, primarily young hicks or "country bumpkins" that foiled the plans of thieves or con men. In March 1917, he signed with Paramount Pictures and resumed working with director Thomas H. Ince. By 1920, he was earning a reported $11,000 a week. Around this time, he left Paramount after studio head Adolph Zukor refused to give him a pay raise. Zukor later wrote in his autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong, that Ray's ego had gotten out of hand and that Ray "...was headed for trouble and  did not care to be with him when he found it." After leaving Paramount, Ray formed his own production company, Charles Ray Productions, and also used his fortune to purchase a studio in Los Angeles where he began producing and shooting his own films. On November 23, 1943, Ray died of a mouth and throat infection at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for which he had been hospitalized six weeks prior. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles Ray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard.


Credits

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
as Self (archive footage)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Opera patron (uncredited)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
The Mad Martindales (1942)
as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
Rio Rita (1942)
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Butler (uncredited)
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
as Bit Role
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
as (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
Just My Luck (1935)
as Homer Crow
Welcome Home (1935)
as Andrew Carr
Ticket to a Crime (1934)
as Courtney Mallory
By Your Leave (1934)
as Leonard Purcell
The Camera Speaks (1934)
as Self (archive footage)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
as Henri, the porter
School for Girls (1934)
as Duke
Stars of Yesterday (1931)
as Self
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
The Count of Ten (1928)
as Johnny McKinney
The Garden of Eden (1928)
as Richard Dupont
Vanity (1927)
as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
as Ken Walrick
Nobody's Widow (1927)
as Honorable John Clayton
The American (1927)
as Bill Smith
The Fire Brigade (1926)
as Terry O'Neil
The Auction Block (1926)
as Bob Wharton
Paris (1926)
as Jerry
Sweet Adeline (1926)
as Ben Wilson
Bright Lights (1925)
as Tom Corbin
Some Pun'kins (1925)
as Lem Blossom
Percy (1925)
as Percival Rogeen
Dynamite Smith (1924)
as Gladstone Smith
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923)
as John Alden
The Girl I Loved (1923)
as John Middleton
A Tailor-Made Man (1922)
as John Paul Bart
Alias Julius Caesar (1922)
as Billy Barnes
The Deuce of Spades (1922)
as Amos
Gas, Oil and Water (1922)
as George Oliver Watson
Two Minutes to Go (1921)
as Chester Burnett
Scrap Iron (1921)
as John Steel
The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921)
as Ezra Hull
An Old Fashioned Boy (1920)
as David Warrington
Peaceful Valley (1920)
as Hosiah Howe
A Village Sleuth (1920)
as William Wells
45 Minutes from Broadway (1920)
as Kid Burns
Homer Comes Home (1920)
as Homer Cavender
Paris Green (1920)
as Luther Green
Alarm Clock Andy (1920)
as Andrew Gray
Red Hot Dollars (1919)
as Tod Burke
Crooked Straight (1919)
as Ben Trimble
The Egg Crate Wallop (1919)
as Jim Kelly
Bill Henry (1919)
as Bill Henry Jenkins
Hay Foot, Straw Foot (1919)
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
The Busher (1919)
as Ben Harding
Greased Lightning (1919)
as Andy Fletcher
The Sheriff's Son (1919)
as Royal Beaudry
The Girl Dodger (1919)
as Cuthbert Trotman
String Beans (1918)
as Toby Watkins
The Law of the North (1918)
as Alain de Montcalm
A Nine O'Clock Town (1918)
as David Clary
The Claws of the Hun (1918)
as John Stanton
His Own Home Town (1918)
as Jimmy Duncan
Playing the Game (1918)
as Larry Prentiss
The Family Skeleton (1918)
as Billy Bates
The Hired Man (1918)
as Ezry Hollins
Staking His Life (1918)
as Frank Hamilton
His Mother's Boy (1917)
as Matthew Denton
The Son of His Father (1917)
as Gordon Carbhoy
Sudden Jim (1917)
as James Ashe, Jr.
The Clodhopper (1917)
as Everett Nelson
The Millionaire Vagrant (1917)
as Steven Du Peyster
The Pinch Hitter (1917)
as Joel Parker
Back of the Man (1917)
as Larry Thomas
Skinner's Dress Suit (1917)
as
The Weaker Sex (1917)
as Jack Harding
The Honorable Algy (1916)
as The Honorable Algy
A Corner in Colleens (1916)
as Richard Taylor
Plain Jane (1916)
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
The Wolf Woman (1916)
as Rex Walden
Home (1916)
as Bob Wheaton
Honor Thy Name (1916)
as
The Deserter (1916)
as Lieutenant Parker
The Dividend (1916)
as Frank Steele
Peggy (1916)
as Colin Cameron
The Forbidden Adventure (1915)
as Cecil Weatherby
The Coward (1915)
as Frank Winslow
The Lure of Woman (1915)
as Captain Lane
The Conversion of Frosty Blake (1915)
as Reverend Horace Brightray
The Renegade (1915)
as Captain Marley
The Cup of Life (1915)
as John Ward
The Grudge (1915)
as Dick Wayne
In the Tennessee Hills (1915)
as Jim Carson
The City of Darkness (1914)
as Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
The Gangsters and the Girl (1914)
as Detective John Stone
For Her Brother's Sake (1914)
as John Frye - the Brother
The Buried Past (1913)
as Tom Winters - the Lover
For Mother's Sake (1913)
as Jim
The Quakeress (1913)
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
Old Mammy's Secret Code (1913)
as David
The Transgressor (1913)
as Jim
The Boomerang (1913)
as Lt. Calhoun
The Grey Sentinel (1913)
as Hal Peters
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923)
Producer
A Tailor-Made Man (1922)
Producer
Alias Julius Caesar (1922)
Director
Alias Julius Caesar (1922)
Producer
The Deuce of Spades (1922)
Director
Gas, Oil and Water (1922)
Director
Two Minutes to Go (1921)
Director
Two Minutes to Go (1921)
Producer
Scrap Iron (1921)
Director
Scrap Iron (1921)
Scenario Writer
The Gangsters and the Girl (1914)
Writer