Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Acting 1891-03-15 Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

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.

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1961 Self (archive footage)
1943 Opera patron (uncredited)
1942 Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
1942 Hotel Guest (uncredited)
1942 Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
1941 Bit Role
1941 (uncredited)
1941 Butler (uncredited)
1936 Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
1935 Andrew Carr
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1935 Homer Crow
1934 Self (archive footage)
1934 Leonard Purcell
1934 Courtney Mallory
1934 Henri, the porter
1934 Duke
1931 Self
1931 (archive footage)
1928 Richard Dupont
1928 Johnny McKinney
1927 Ken Walrick
1927 Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
1927 Bill Smith
1927 Honorable John Clayton
1926 Ben Wilson
1926 Terry O'Neil
1926 Bob Wharton
1926 Jerry
1925 Percival Rogeen
1925 Tom Corbin
1925 Lem Blossom
1924 Gladstone Smith
1923 John Alden
1923 John Middleton
1922 George Oliver Watson
1922 Amos
1922 John Paul Bart
1922 Billy Barnes
1922 Director
1922 Director
1922 Producer
1922 Director
1922 Producer
1921 Ezra Hull
1921 John Steel
1921 Chester Burnett
1921 Director
1921 Scenario Writer
1921 Director
1921 Producer
1920 Kid Burns
1920 William Wells
1920 Andrew Gray
1920 David Warrington
1920 Homer Cavender
1920 Luther Green
1920 Hosiah Howe
1919 Royal Beaudry
1919 Ben Harding
1919 Bill Henry Jenkins
1919 Andy Fletcher
1919 Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
1919 Jim Kelly
1919 Cuthbert Trotman
1919 Ben Trimble
1919 Tod Burke
1918 Billy Bates
1918 Larry Prentiss
1918 Frank Hamilton
1918 John Stanton
1918 Jimmy Duncan
1918 Toby Watkins
1918 Ezry Hollins
1918 David Clary
1918 Alain de Montcalm
1917 Jack Harding
1917 Gordon Carbhoy
1917 James Ashe, Jr.
1917 Steven Du Peyster
1917 Everett Nelson
1917 Larry Thomas
1917 Joel Parker
1917 Matthew Denton
1916 Rex Walden
1916 Bob Wheaton
1916 Frank Steele
1916 Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
1916 Colin Cameron
1916 Lieutenant Parker
1916 The Honorable Algy
1916 Richard Taylor
1915 Dick Wayne
1915 Reverend Horace Brightray
1915 Captain Marley
1915 John Ward
1915 Cecil Weatherby
1915 Frank Winslow
1915 Captain Lane
1915 Jim Carson
1914 Detective John Stone
1914 Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
1914 John Frye - the Brother
1913 Lt. Calhoun
1913 Jim
1913 David
1913 Hal Peters
1913 John Hart - the Schoolmaster
1913 Tom Winters - the Lover