Ray Collins
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Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane, as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as the irascible Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on the television series Perry Mason.
Known for
Credits
Citizen Kane (1941)
as Jim W. Gettys
Touch of Evil (1958)
as District Attorney Adair
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
as Mr. Milton
The Heiress (1949)
as Jefferson Almond
Good Sam (1948)
as Rev. Daniels
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Jack Amberson
Hideout (1949)
as Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Sheriff Masters
Athena (1954)
as Mr. Tremaine
Summer Stock (1950)
as Jasper G. Wingait
Night in Paradise (1946)
as Leonides
Texas Lady (1955)
as Mica Ralston (rancher)
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Roger Enright
Boys' Ranch (1946)
as Davis Banton
Vengeance Valley (1951)
as Arch Strobie
The Human Comedy (1943)
as Mr. Macauley
The Man from Colorado (1948)
as Big Ed Carter
Madame Curie (1943)
as Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
as Beemish
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
as Johan Bergesen
Command Decision (1948)
as Maj. Desmond Lansing
The Racket (1951)
as Mortimer Welsh
See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
as Brodie S. Griffith
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
as Alfred Metcalfe
The Seventh Cross (1944)
as Wallau
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
as Dr. Bailey
Reunion in Reno (1951)
as Judge Thomas Kneeland
Highways by Night (1942)
as Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
as Alfred Greenleaf
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
as Commodore Parker
The Big Street (1942)
as Professor B
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
as Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
A Double Life (1947)
as Victor Donlan
Three Wise Fools (1946)
as Judge Watson
Roughly Speaking (1945)
as John Chase Randall
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
as Edmund Jethrow
Trail Street (1947)
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Invitation (1952)
as Warren Pritchard
The Red Stallion (1947)
as Perry Barton
Bad for Each Other (1953)
as Dan Reasonover
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
as Capt. McCall
Francis (1950)
as Colonel Hooker
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
as Glen Robie
Salute to the Marines (1943)
as Col. John Mason
The Desert Song (1953)
as Gen. Birabeau
Homecoming (1948)
as Lt. Col. Avery Silver
I Want You (1951)
as Judge Kenneth Turner
Badman's Territory (1946)
as Colonel Farewell / Narrator
For the Love of Mary (1948)
as Harvey Elwood
The Go-Getter (1956)
as J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
Kill the Umpire (1950)
as Jonah Evans
The Hidden Eye (1945)
as Phillip Treadway
The Kid from Left Field (1953)
as Fred F. Whacker
Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
as Grover Kendall
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Snodgrass
Spoilers of the Forest (1957)
as Eric Warren
Crime Doctor (1943)
as Dr. John Carey
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952)
as Jonathan Parker
I'll Give My Life (1960)
as John Bradford
Can't Help Singing (1944)
as Senator Frost
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
as Gordon Stewart
Crack-Up (1946)
as Dr. Lowell
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
as Jonathan Parker
Dreamboat (1952)
as Timothy Stone
The Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
as Judge Harper
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
as Fred Houlihan
Column South (1953)
as Storey
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
as Dr. Elijah Howe
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1957)
as Harris Clayton
Paid in Full (1950)
as Dr. Fredericks
The Hitler Gang (1944)
as Cardinal von Faulhaber
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
as Deckman West
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
as Johnny Adair
Free For All (1949)
as A B Blair
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
as Mr. Floyd Henderickson
Main Street Today (1944)
as Otis Bird
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)
as Emil Blanchard
Rose Marie (1954)
as Insp. Appleby
Red Stallion In The Rockies (1949)
as Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
The Swordsman (1948)
as MacCoppin
Viva la clase media (1980)
Actor
The Price of Freedom (1949)
as Thomas Vollmer
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living (2014)
Actor
One Way Out (1931)
as Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
Words & Music (1931)
as Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men (1940)
as Mayor (voice)
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932)
as Waite