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