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