Charles Ray

1891-03-15 Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

Biografia

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. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles Ray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard.

Películas

	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	1961-05-24
	Slightly Dangerous	Opera patron (uncredited)	1943-04-01
	The Mad Martindales	Barbershop Customer (uncredited)	1942-05-15
	Mrs. Miniver	Man getting on Bus (uncredited)	1942-07-03
	Rio Rita	Hotel Guest (uncredited)	1942-03-11
	Appointment for Love	Butler (uncredited)	1941-10-31
	The Man Who Lost Himself	(uncredited)	1941-03-21
	The Lady from Cheyenne	Bit Role	1941-04-11
	Hollywood Boulevard	Charlie Smith - Assistant Director	1936-08-20
	Welcome Home	Andrew Carr	1935-08-09
	Just My Luck	Homer Crow	1935-12-30
	School for Girls	Duke	1934-03-22
	Ladies Should Listen	Henri, the porter	1934-08-10
	By Your Leave	Leonard Purcell	1934-11-09
	Ticket to a Crime	Courtney Mallory	1934-12-14
	The Camera Speaks	Self (archive footage)	1934-08-11
	Stars of Yesterday	Self	1931-12-31
	The House That Shadows Built	(archive footage)	1931-07-08
	The Garden of Eden	Richard Dupont	1928-02-04
	Vanity	Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland	1927-05-09
	The American	Bill Smith	1927-01-01
	Nobody's Widow	Honorable John Clayton	1927-01-12
	Getting Gertie's Garter	Ken Walrick	1927-02-28
	Sweet Adeline	Ben Wilson	1926-01-14
	The Fire Brigade	Terry O'Neil	1926-12-20
	The Auction Block	Bob Wharton	1926-07-19
	Paris	Jerry	1926-05-24
	Bright Lights	Tom Corbin	1925-11-15
	Percy	Percival Rogeen	1925-04-05
	Dynamite Smith	Gladstone Smith	1924-10-12
	The Courtship of Miles Standish	John Alden	1923-12-30
	The Girl I Loved	John Middleton	1923-02-15
	Gas, Oil and Water	George Oliver Watson	1922-03-01
	A Tailor-Made Man	John Paul Bart	1922-08-05
	The Deuce of Spades	Amos	1922-05-01
	The Old Swimmin' Hole	Ezra Hull	1921-02-26
	Scrap Iron	John Steel	1921-05-01
	A Village Sleuth	William Wells	1920-09-12
	Alarm Clock Andy	Andrew Gray	1920-03-14
	Homer Comes Home	Homer Cavender	1920-06-27
	Paris Green	Luther Green	1920-06-01
	An Old Fashioned Boy	David Warrington	1920-10-31
	45 Minutes from Broadway	Kid Burns	1920-08-30
	Greased Lightning	Andy Fletcher	1919-04-27
	Hay Foot, Straw Foot	Ulysses S. Grant Briggs	1919-06-22
	The Sheriff's Son	Royal Beaudry	1919-03-30
	The Girl Dodger	Cuthbert Trotman	1919-02-09
	The Egg Crate Wallop	Jim Kelly	1919-09-28
	The Busher	Ben Harding	1919-05-17
	Bill Henry	Bill Henry Jenkins	1919-08-17
	The Law of the North	Alain de Montcalm	1918-09-29
	A Nine O'Clock Town	David Clary	1918-07-28
	String Beans	Toby Watkins	1918-12-22
	His Own Home Town	Jimmy Duncan	1918-05-27
	The Claws of the Hun	John Stanton	1918-07-08
	Staking His Life	Frank Hamilton	1918-01-01
	The Hired Man	Ezry Hollins	1918-01-27
	The Family Skeleton	Billy Bates	1918-03-31
	Playing the Game	Larry Prentiss	1918-04-22
	The Pinch Hitter	Joel Parker	1917-04-28
	His Mother's Boy	Matthew Denton	1917-12-24
	The Weaker Sex	Jack Harding	1917-01-07
	The Son of His Father	Gordon Carbhoy	1917-10-22
	Sudden Jim	James Ashe, Jr.	1917-07-22
	The Millionaire Vagrant	Steven Du Peyster	1917-05-27
	Back of the Man	Larry Thomas	1917-03-04
	The Clodhopper	Everett Nelson	1917-06-24
	The Dividend	Frank Steele	1916-06-18
	Honor Thy Name		1916-08-06
	Peggy	Colin Cameron	1916-01-02
	The Deserter	Lieutenant Parker	1916-07-09
	Plain Jane	Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'	1916-10-08
	Home	Bob Wheaton	1916-08-27
	The Wolf Woman	Rex Walden	1916-09-17
	The Grudge	Dick Wayne	1915-02-24
	The Renegade	Captain Marley	1915-04-28
	The Conversion of Frosty Blake	Reverend Horace Brightray	1915-06-02
	The Forbidden Adventure	Cecil Weatherby	1915-12-02
	The Coward	Frank Winslow	1915-11-14
	The Lure of Woman	Captain Lane	1915-09-27
	In the Tennessee Hills	Jim Carson	1915-02-12
	The Cup of Life	John Ward	1915-04-26
	The Gangsters and the Girl	Detective John Stone	1914-08-07
	The Grey Sentinel	Hal Peters	1913-04-09
	The Quakeress	John Hart - the Schoolmaster	1913-08-12
	The Boomerang	Lt. Calhoun	1913-06-13
	For Mother's Sake		1913-11-11
	Old Mammy's Secret Code	David	1913-07-16
	The Transgressor	Jim	1913-06-25