Charles Ray
Known for Acting · 102 credits
- Born
- 1891-03-15
- Died
- 1943-11-23
- Place of birth
- Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Charles Edgar Alfred Ray · Charles E. Ray · Charles Edgar Ray · Чарльс Рей · Чарльз Рэй
Biography
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.
Known For
Movies (102)
Mrs. Miniver
1942
as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
The Clodhopper
1917
as Everett Nelson
Dynamite Smith
1924
as Gladstone Smith
Appointment for Love
1941
as Butler (uncredited)
String Beans
1918
as Toby Watkins
Home
1916
as Bob Wheaton
Slightly Dangerous
1943
as Opera patron (uncredited)
Paris Green
1920
as Luther Green
Peggy
1916
as Colin Cameron
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
The Coward
1915
as Frank Winslow
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as (uncredited)
Hay Foot, Straw Foot
1919
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
Rio Rita
1942
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Sudden Jim
1917
as James Ashe, Jr.
The Count of Ten
1928
as Johnny McKinney
The Deserter
1916
as Lieutenant Parker
Bill Henry
1919
as Bill Henry Jenkins
Welcome Home
1935
as Andrew Carr
Ladies Should Listen
1934
as Henri, the porter
A Village Sleuth
1920
as William Wells
By Your Leave
1934
as Leonard Purcell
The Mad Martindales
1942
as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
His Own Home Town
1918
as Jimmy Duncan
The Renegade
1915
as Captain Marley
Sweet Adeline
1926
as Ben Wilson
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
as Bit Role
The Garden of Eden
1928
as Richard Dupont
The Grudge
1915
as Dick Wayne
The Girl Dodger
1919
as Cuthbert Trotman
The American
1927
as Bill Smith
Vanity
1927
as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
The Transgressor
1913
as Jim
School for Girls
1934
as Duke
An Old Fashioned Boy
1920
as David Warrington
The Son of His Father
1917
as Gordon Carbhoy
Getting Gertie's Garter
1927
as Ken Walrick
Percy
1925
as Percival Rogeen
The Camera Speaks
1934
as Self (archive footage)
45 Minutes from Broadway
1920
as Kid Burns
The Cup of Life
1915
as John Ward
Peaceful Valley
1920
as Hosiah Howe
The Claws of the Hun
1918
as John Stanton
A Tailor-Made Man
1922
as John Paul Bart
Scrap Iron
1921
as John Steel
Alias Julius Caesar
1922
as Billy Barnes
The Millionaire Vagrant
1917
as Steven Du Peyster
Some Pun'kins
1925
as Lem Blossom
Honor Thy Name
1916
Greased Lightning
1919
as Andy Fletcher
The Gangsters and the Girl
1914
as Detective John Stone
Ticket to a Crime
1934
as Courtney Mallory
Paris
1926
as Jerry
A Nine O'Clock Town
1918
as David Clary
The Deuce of Spades
1922
as Amos
Two Minutes to Go
1921
as Chester Burnett
The Pinch Hitter
1917
as Joel Parker
Plain Jane
1916
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
In the Tennessee Hills
1915
as Jim Carson
Bright Lights
1925
as Tom Corbin
Alarm Clock Andy
1920
as Andrew Gray
Homer Comes Home
1920
as Homer Cavender
The Family Skeleton
1918
as Billy Bates
For Her Brother's Sake
1914
as John Frye - the Brother
The Wolf Woman
1916
as Rex Walden
The Law of the North
1918
as Alain de Montcalm
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923
as John Alden
The Busher
1919
as Ben Harding
The Lure of Woman
1915
as Captain Lane
Back of the Man
1917
as Larry Thomas
The Auction Block
1926
as Bob Wharton
The Sheriff's Son
1919
as Royal Beaudry
Just My Luck
1935
as Homer Crow
The Weaker Sex
1917
as Jack Harding
The Girl I Loved
1923
as John Middleton
Old Mammy's Secret Code
1913
as David
The Quakeress
1913
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
The Fire Brigade
1926
as Terry O'Neil
Staking His Life
1918
as Frank Hamilton
The Hired Man
1918
as Ezry Hollins
Playing the Game
1918
as Larry Prentiss
His Mother's Boy
1917
as Matthew Denton
Nobody's Widow
1927
as Honorable John Clayton
Gas, Oil and Water
1922
as George Oliver Watson
The Dividend
1916
as Frank Steele
The Grey Sentinel
1913
as Hal Peters
The Old Swimmin' Hole
1921
as Ezra Hull
Stars of Yesterday
1931
as Self
Crooked Straight
1919
as Ben Trimble
The Conversion of Frosty Blake
1915
as Reverend Horace Brightray
The Boomerang
1913
as Lt. Calhoun
Red Hot Dollars
1919
as Tod Burke
The Egg Crate Wallop
1919
as Jim Kelly
A Corner in Colleens
1916
as Richard Taylor
The City of Darkness
1914
as Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
The Buried Past
1913
as Tom Winters - the Lover
The Forbidden Adventure
1915
as Cecil Weatherby
For Mother's Sake
1913
as Jim
Skinner's Dress Suit
1917
The Honorable Algy
1916
as The Honorable Algy
About Charles Ray
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… With 102 credits spanning from 1913 to 1961, Charles Ray has appeared in 102 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Charles Ray Movies
- Mrs. Miniver (1942) — as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
- Hollywood Boulevard (1936) — as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
- The Clodhopper (1917) — as Everett Nelson
- Dynamite Smith (1924) — as Gladstone Smith
- Appointment for Love (1941) — as Butler (uncredited)
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