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