Aldo Ray
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Aldo Ray was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima. While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Idols in the Dust (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz"s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991). Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991.
Known for
Credits
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
as Sullivan (voice)
Evils of the Night (1985)
as Fred
The Sicilian (1987)
as Don Siano of Bisacquino
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
as Sergeant Rizzo
We're No Angels (1955)
as Albert
The Green Berets (1968)
as Sgt. Muldoon
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
as Man from Bodie
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as Sam Croft
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
as Eddie Hart
And Hope to Die (1972)
as Mattone
The Power (1968)
as Bruce
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
as Stubby Stebbins
Nightfall (1956)
as James Vanning / Art Rayburn
Battle Cry (1955)
as Andy Hookens
Pat and Mike (1952)
as Davie Hucko
Seven Alone (1974)
as Dr. Dutch
Death Dimension (1978)
as Verde
Let's Do It Again (1953)
as Frank McGraw
Suicide Commando (1968)
as Seargent Cloadec
Men in War (1957)
as Sgt. Montana
God's Little Acre (1958)
as Bill Thompson
Vultures (1983)
as Wally
Blood Red (1989)
as Father Stassio
Gone with the West (1975)
as Mimmo, Stage Robber
Human Experiments (1979)
as Mat Tibbs
The Shooters (1989)
as General Makepeace
Star Slammer (1986)
as The Inquisitor
Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
as Sheriff
Mongrel (1982)
as Bouchard
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
as Matt Kirk
Don't Go Near the Park (1979)
as Taft
Dark Sanity (1982)
as Larry Craig
Crime of Crimes (1989)
as Johnson
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One (1984)
as Narrator
Mission to Glory: A True Story (1977)
as Mine Boss
To Kill a Stranger (1986)
as Inspector Benedict
Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
as Hugh O'Reilly
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
as Charles Norgate
The Man Who Would Not Die (1975)
as Frank Keefer
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
as Sgt. Phil O'Hara
The Centerfold Girls (1974)
as Ed Walker
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
as Lieutenant Walt Lorimer
Psychic Killer (1975)
as Lt. Dave Anderson
The Glove (1979)
as Tiny
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (1984)
as Bürgermeister Niederhangen
3-D Rarities (2015)
as Sgt. Phil O'Hara (archive footage)
Musketeers of the Sea (1962)
as Moreau
Sylvia (1965)
as Jonas Karoki
The Dynamite Brothers (1974)
as Burke
Paesano (1975)
as J. Arthur Cobra
Angel Unchained (1970)
as Sheriff
Biohazard (1985)
as General Randolph
Inside Out (1975)
as M.Sgt. Prior
The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980)
as Sheriff Burgess
Drug Runners (1988)
as Victor Lazzaro
Shock 'Em Dead (1991)
as Tony
Flesh and Bullets (1985)
as Police Lieutenant
The Lucifer Complex (1978)
as Karl Krauss
The Marrying Kind (1952)
as 'Chet' Keefer
Young Rebels (1989)
as Sheriff
The Executioner Part II (1984)
as Police Commissioner
Hollywood Cop (1987)
as Mr. Fong
Saturday's Hero (1951)
as Gene Hausler (as Aldo DaRe)
When I Am King (1982)
as The Manager
The Violent Ones (1967)
as Joe Vorzyck
Terror on Alcatraz (1986)
as Frank Morris
Night Shadow (1989)
as Gene Krebelski
Deadlock (1969)
as Edward Logan
Terror Night (1989)
as Captain Ned
Frankenstein's Brain (1985)
Actor
Bog (1979)
as Sheriff Neal Rydholm
Promise Him Anything (1975)
as Cop
Kill a Dragon (1967)
as Vigo
A Torn Page of Glory (1968)
as Major Comack
Johnny Nobody (1961)
as Mark Wheeler (aka Johnny Nobody)
My True Story (1951)
as Mark Foster
Haunts (1976)
as Sheriff Peterson
The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
as Theron Henchman (uncredited)
The Bad Bunch (1973)
as Lt. Stans
Hateman (1987)
as Sheriff Benny
Haunted (1977)
as Andrew
Sweet Savage (1979)
as Banner