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.
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Mrs. Miniver
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as Billy Barnes
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as Ben Trimble
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as Opera patron (uncredited)
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as The Honorable Algy
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as Lem Blossom
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as Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
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as Johnny McKinney
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as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
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as Bob Wheaton
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as Tod Burke
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as Bit Role
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The Buried Past
as Tom Winters - the Lover
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Hollywood Boulevard
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
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Getting Gertie's Garter
as Ken Walrick
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A Corner in Colleens
as Richard Taylor
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The Law of the North
as Alain de Montcalm
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For Her Brother's Sake
as John Frye - the Brother
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The Garden of Eden
as Richard Dupont
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The Man Who Lost Himself
as (uncredited)
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Ticket to a Crime
as Courtney Mallory
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The Coward
as Frank Winslow
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An Old Fashioned Boy
as David Warrington
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The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
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The Clodhopper
as Everett Nelson
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as George Oliver Watson
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The Busher
as Ben Harding
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Ladies Should Listen
as Henri
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The Auction Block
as Bob Wharton
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Percy
as Percival Rogeen
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Hay Foot, Straw Foot
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
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as Jimmy Duncan
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The Wolf Woman
as Rex Walden
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
as John Alden
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
as Ezra Hull
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Stars of Yesterday
as Self
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Peggy
as Colin Cameron
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Bill Henry
as Bill Henry Jenkins
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The Camera Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
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as Andrew Carr
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The Claws of the Hun
as John Stanton
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A Tailor-Made Man
as John Paul Bart
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By Your Leave
as Leonard Purcell
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The Transgressor
as Jim
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The Dividend
as Frank Steele
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Greased Lightning
as Andy Fletcher
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The Sheriff's Son
as Royal Beaudry
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as Chester Burnett
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as David
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as Ben Wilson
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as Jerry
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The American
as Bill Smith
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The Quakeress
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
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Homer Comes Home
as Homer Cavender
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A Nine O'Clock Town
as David Clary
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Just My Luck
as Homer Crow
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Plain Jane
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
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The Cup of Life
as John Ward
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The Girl Dodger
as Cuthbert Trotman
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In the Tennessee Hills
as Jim Carson
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The Conversion of Frosty Blake
as Reverend Horace Brightray
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The Deserter
as Lieutenant Parker
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The Egg Crate Wallop
as Jim Kelly
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The Lure of Woman
as Captain Lane
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Playing the Game
as Larry Prentiss
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A Village Sleuth
as William Wells
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Sudden Jim
as James Ashe, Jr.
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The Pinch Hitter
as Joel Parker
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Dynamite Smith
as Gladstone Smith
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The Weaker Sex
as Jack Harding
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String Beans
as Toby Watkins
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The Grey Sentinel
as Hal Peters
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The Hired Man
as Ezry Hollins
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as Tom Corbin
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Paris Green
as Luther Green
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The Forbidden Adventure
as Cecil Weatherby
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Honor Thy Name
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The Renegade
as Captain Marley
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The Girl I Loved
as John Middleton
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The Deuce of Spades
as Amos
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His Mother's Boy
as Matthew Denton
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The Gangsters and the Girl
as Detective John Stone
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The Millionaire Vagrant
as Steven Du Peyster
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45 Minutes from Broadway
as Kid Burns
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The Boomerang
as Lt. Calhoun
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The Family Skeleton
as Billy Bates
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Staking His Life
as Frank Hamilton
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The Grudge
as Dick Wayne
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Back of the Man
as Larry Thomas
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The Son of His Father
as Gordon Carbhoy
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as Andrew Gray
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For Mother's Sake
as Jim
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as Honorable John Clayton