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