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