Cast
Charles Ray
Acting
Cast
Charles Ray
Known for
Acting
Born
1891-03-15
From
Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
Died
1943-11-23
Also known as Charles Edgar Alfred Ray, Charles E. Ray, Charles Edgar Ray
Biography
From Wikipedia Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 β 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 Β 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.
Mrs. Miniver
as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
Appointment for Love
as Butler (uncredited)
String Beans
as Toby Watkins
Home
as Bob Wheaton
The Clodhopper
as Everett Nelson
Rio Rita
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Bill Henry
as Bill Henry Jenkins
Peggy
as Colin Cameron
Dynamite Smith
as Gladstone Smith
The Deserter
as Lieutenant Parker
Paris Green
as Luther Green
Vanity
as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
Slightly Dangerous
as Opera patron (uncredited)
The Renegade
as Captain Marley
The Man Who Lost Himself
as (uncredited)
The Coward
as Frank Winslow
The Count of Ten
as Johnny McKinney
Ladies Should Listen
as Henri, the porter
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
A Village Sleuth
as William Wells
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
Welcome Home
as Andrew Carr
Hay Foot, Straw Foot
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
The Pinch Hitter
as Joel Parker
The Mad Martindales
as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
By Your Leave
as Leonard Purcell
The Busher
as Ben Harding
Sudden Jim
as James Ashe, Jr.
A Nine O'Clock Town
as David Clary
The American
as Bill Smith
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Bit Role
Bright Lights
as Tom Corbin
The Garden of Eden
as Richard Dupont
Alias Julius Caesar
as Billy Barnes
His Own Home Town
as Jimmy Duncan
A Corner in Colleens
as Richard Taylor
An Old Fashioned Boy
as David Warrington
The Girl Dodger
as Cuthbert Trotman
Honor Thy Name
Ticket to a Crime
as Courtney Mallory
The Millionaire Vagrant
as Steven Du Peyster
Getting Gertie's Garter
as Ken Walrick
The Son of His Father
as Gordon Carbhoy
Sweet Adeline
as Ben Wilson
The Quakeress
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
The Camera Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
The Transgressor
as Jim
The Wolf Woman
as Rex Walden
The Fire Brigade
as Terry O'Neil
Some Pun'kins
as Lem Blossom
The Gangsters and the Girl
as Detective John Stone
The Cup of Life
as John Ward
45 Minutes from Broadway
as Kid Burns
School for Girls
as Duke
The Grudge
as Dick Wayne
Two Minutes to Go
as Chester Burnett
The Auction Block
as Bob Wharton
In the Tennessee Hills
as Jim Carson
Greased Lightning
as Andy Fletcher
Scrap Iron
as John Steel
The Family Skeleton
as Billy Bates
Percy
as Percival Rogeen
The Old Swimmin' Hole
as Ezra Hull
The Deuce of Spades
as Amos
Gas, Oil and Water
as George Oliver Watson
Peaceful Valley
as Hosiah Howe
Homer Comes Home
as Homer Cavender
Alarm Clock Andy
as Andrew Gray
The Claws of the Hun
as John Stanton
The Dividend
as Frank Steele
Plain Jane
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
Playing the Game
as Larry Prentiss
Paris
as Jerry
The Weaker Sex
as Jack Harding
The Law of the North
as Alain de Montcalm
Just My Luck
as Homer Crow
The Sheriff's Son
as Royal Beaudry
Nobody's Widow
as Honorable John Clayton
Back of the Man
as Larry Thomas
A Tailor-Made Man
as John Paul Bart
For Her Brother's Sake
as John Frye - the Brother
The Courtship of Miles Standish
as John Alden
The Hired Man
as Ezry Hollins
The Grey Sentinel
as Hal Peters
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
His Mother's Boy
as Matthew Denton
Old Mammy's Secret Code
as David
The Lure of Woman
as Captain Lane
Red Hot Dollars
as Tod Burke
The Egg Crate Wallop
as Jim Kelly
The Honorable Algy
as The Honorable Algy
The Girl I Loved
as John Middleton
The Conversion of Frosty Blake
as Reverend Horace Brightray
Staking His Life
as Frank Hamilton
Skinner's Dress Suit
The Boomerang
as Lt. Calhoun
Crooked Straight
as Ben Trimble
The Forbidden Adventure
as Cecil Weatherby
The Buried Past
as Tom Winters - the Lover
The City of Darkness
as Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
For Mother's Sake
as Jim