Aldo Ray
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Aldo Ray was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima. While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Idols in the Dust (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz"s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991). Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991.
Known for
Credits
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
as Sullivan (voice)
We're No Angels (1955)
as Albert
Mongrel (1982)
as Bouchard
The Power (1968)
as Bruce
The Green Berets (1968)
as Sgt. Muldoon
Suicide Commando (1968)
as Seargent Cloadec
Battle Cry (1955)
as Andy Hookens
Death Dimension (1978)
as Verde
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
as Sergeant Rizzo
Seven Alone (1974)
as Dr. Dutch
Nightfall (1956)
as James Vanning / Art Rayburn
Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
as Sheriff
Vultures (1983)
as Wally
The Sicilian (1987)
as Don Siano of Bisacquino
Frankenstein's Brain (1985)
Actor
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
as Man from Bodie
To Kill a Stranger (1986)
as Inspector Benedict
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
as Eddie Hart
God's Little Acre (1958)
as Bill Thompson
Men in War (1957)
as Sgt. Montana
Evils of the Night (1985)
as Fred
3-D Rarities (2015)
as Sgt. Phil O'Hara (archive footage)
When I Am King (1982)
as The Manager
Dark Sanity (1982)
as Larry Craig
Paesano (1975)
as J. Arthur Cobra
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One (1984)
as Narrator
The Glove (1979)
as Tiny
And Hope to Die (1972)
as Mattone
The Centerfold Girls (1974)
as Ed Walker
Blood Red (1989)
as Father Stassio
Hollywood Cop (1987)
as Mr. Fong
Saturday's Hero (1951)
as Gene Hausler (as Aldo DaRe)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Stubby Stebbins
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as Sam Croft
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
as Lieutenant Walt Lorimer
Pat and Mike (1952)
as Davie Hucko
The Shooters (1989)
as General Makepeace
Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
as Taft
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
as Sgt. Phil O'Hara
Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
as Hugh O'Reilly
Star Slammer (1986)
as The Inquisitor
Human Experiments (1979)
as Mat Tibbs
Mission to Glory: A True Story (1977)
as Mine Boss
Let's Do It Again (1953)
as Frank McGraw
Terror on Alcatraz (1986)
as Frank Morris
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
as Charles Norgate
Inside Out (1975)
as M.Sgt. Prior
Drug Runners (1988)
as Victor Lazzaro
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
as Matt Kirk
Gone with the West (1975)
as Mimmo, Stage Robber
A Torn Page of Glory (1968)
as Major Comack
Deadlock (1969)
as Edward Logan
Biohazard (1985)
as General Randolph
The Marrying Kind (1952)
as 'Chet' Keefer
The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980)
as Sheriff Burgess
Night Shadow (1989)
as Gene Krebelski
Shock 'Em Dead (1991)
as Tony
Angel Unchained (1970)
as Sheriff
Sylvia (1965)
as Jonas Karoki
Musketeers of the Sea (1962)
as Moreau
The Dynamite Brothers (1974)
as Burke
The Violent Ones (1967)
as Joe Vorzyck
Bog (1979)
as Sheriff Neal Rydholm
Flesh and Bullets (1985)
as Police Lieutenant
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (1984)
as Bürgermeister Niederhangen
Johnny Nobody (1961)
as Mark Wheeler (aka Johnny Nobody)
My True Story (1951)
as Mark Foster
Haunts (1976)
as Sheriff Peterson
The Lucifer Complex (1978)
as Karl Krauss
The Man Who Would Not Die (1975)
as Frank Keefer
Psychic Killer (1975)
as Lt. Dave Anderson
Terror Night (1989)
as Captain Ned
Promise Him Anything (1975)
as Cop
Haunted (1977)
as Andrew
The Bad Bunch (1973)
as Lt. Stans
Young Rebels (1989)
as Sheriff
The Executioner Part II (1984)
as Police Commissioner
Hateman (1987)
as Sheriff Benny
Crime of Crimes (1989)
as Johnson
Kill a Dragon (1967)
as Vigo
The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
as Theron Henchman (uncredited)
Sweet Savage (1979)
as Banner