Ray Collins
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Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane, as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as the irascible Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on the television series Perry Mason.
Known for
Credits
Citizen Kane (1941)
as Jim W. Gettys
Touch of Evil (1958)
as District Attorney Adair
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
as Mr. Milton
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Jack Amberson
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
as Glen Robie
The Heiress (1949)
as Jefferson Almond
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Roger Enright
The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Sheriff Masters
Good Sam (1948)
as Rev. Daniels
Summer Stock (1950)
as Jasper G. Wingait
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
as Beemish
The Man from Colorado (1948)
as Big Ed Carter
Vengeance Valley (1951)
as Arch Strobie
The Seventh Cross (1944)
as Wallau
Texas Lady (1955)
as Mica Ralston (rancher)
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
as Dr. Bailey
Hideout (1949)
as Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
Athena (1954)
as Mr. Tremaine
Command Decision (1948)
as Maj. Desmond Lansing
Madame Curie (1943)
as Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
The Racket (1951)
as Mortimer Welsh
Francis (1950)
as Colonel Hooker
A Double Life (1947)
as Victor Donlan
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
as Alfred Metcalfe
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
as Gordon Stewart
Trail Street (1947)
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Big Street (1942)
as Professor B
Boys' Ranch (1946)
as Davis Banton
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
as Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
as Johan Bergesen
Rose Marie (1954)
as Insp. Appleby
Column South (1953)
as Storey
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Snodgrass
Bad for Each Other (1953)
as Dan Reasonover
Crack-Up (1946)
as Dr. Lowell
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
as Alfred Greenleaf
Badman's Territory (1946)
as Colonel Farewell / Narrator
I Want You (1951)
as Judge Kenneth Turner
See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
as Brodie S. Griffith
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
as Edmund Jethrow
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
as Dr. Elijah Howe
Paid in Full (1950)
as Dr. Fredericks
Homecoming (1948)
as Lt. Col. Avery Silver
The Red Stallion (1947)
as Perry Barton
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)
as Emil Blanchard
Three Wise Fools (1946)
as Judge Watson
Dreamboat (1952)
as Timothy Stone
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
as Johnny Adair
Spoilers of the Forest (1957)
as Eric Warren
Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
as Grover Kendall
Night in Paradise (1946)
as Leonides
The Hitler Gang (1944)
as Cardinal von Faulhaber
The Human Comedy (1943)
as Mr. Macauley
I'll Give My Life (1960)
as John Bradford
Crime Doctor (1943)
as Dr. John Carey
The Desert Song (1953)
as Gen. Birabeau
Main Street Today (1944)
as Otis Bird
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
as Commodore Parker
Invitation (1952)
as Warren Pritchard
Salute to the Marines (1943)
as Col. John Mason
Free For All (1949)
as A B Blair
The Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
as Judge Harper
Kill the Umpire (1950)
as Jonah Evans
Highways by Night (1942)
as Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
Reunion in Reno (1951)
as Judge Thomas Kneeland
The Kid from Left Field (1953)
as Fred F. Whacker
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
as Fred Houlihan
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
as Capt. McCall
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
as Deckman West
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1957)
as Harris Clayton
Roughly Speaking (1945)
as John Chase Randall
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952)
as Jonathan Parker
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
as Jonathan Parker
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
as Mr. Floyd Henderickson
The Go-Getter (1956)
as J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
For the Love of Mary (1948)
as Harvey Elwood
Can't Help Singing (1944)
as Senator Frost
The Hidden Eye (1945)
as Phillip Treadway
Viva la clase media (1980)
Actor
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932)
as Waite
The Swordsman (1948)
as MacCoppin
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men (1940)
as Mayor (voice)
Words & Music (1931)
as Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
The Price of Freedom (1949)
as Thomas Vollmer
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living (2014)
Actor
One Way Out (1931)
as Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
Red Stallion In The Rockies (1949)
as Matthew 'Matt' Simpson