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