Charles Ray

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: Acting

Born: Jacksonville, Illinois, USA, 1891-03-15

Died: 1943-11-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1913	The Grey Sentinel	Hal Peters	0
2	1913	The Boomerang	Lt. Calhoun	0
3	1913	The Transgressor	Jim	0
4	1913	Old Mammy's Secret Code	David	0
5	1913	The Quakeress	John Hart - the Schoolmaster	0
6	1913	For Mother's Sake		0
7	1914	The Gangsters and the Girl	Detective John Stone	0
8	1915	In the Tennessee Hills	Jim Carson	0
9	1915	The Grudge	Dick Wayne	0
10	1915	The Cup of Life	John Ward	0
11	1915	The Renegade	Captain Marley	0
12	1915	The Conversion of Frosty Blake	Reverend Horace Brightray	0
13	1915	The Lure of Woman	Captain Lane	0
14	1915	The Coward	Frank Winslow	57
15	1915	The Forbidden Adventure	Cecil Weatherby	0
16	1916	Peggy	Colin Cameron	0
17	1916	The Dividend	Frank Steele	0
18	1916	The Deserter	Lieutenant Parker	0
19	1916	Honor Thy Name		0
20	1916	Home	Bob Wheaton	0
21	1916	The Wolf Woman	Rex Walden	0
22	1916	Plain Jane	Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'	0
23	1917	The Weaker Sex	Jack Harding	0
24	1917	Back of the Man	Larry Thomas	0
25	1917	The Pinch Hitter	Joel Parker	0
26	1917	The Millionaire Vagrant	Steven Du Peyster	0
27	1917	The Clodhopper	Everett Nelson	58
28	1917	Sudden Jim	James Ashe, Jr.	0
29	1917	The Son of His Father	Gordon Carbhoy	0
30	1917	His Mother's Boy	Matthew Denton	0
31	1918	Staking His Life	Frank Hamilton	0
32	1918	The Hired Man	Ezry Hollins	0
33	1918	The Family Skeleton	Billy Bates	0
34	1918	Playing the Game	Larry Prentiss	0
35	1918	His Own Home Town	Jimmy Duncan	0
36	1918	The Claws of the Hun	John Stanton	0
37	1918	A Nine O'Clock Town	David Clary	0
38	1918	The Law of the North	Alain de Montcalm	0
39	1918	String Beans	Toby Watkins	0
40	1919	The Girl Dodger	Cuthbert Trotman	0
41	1919	The Sheriff's Son	Royal Beaudry	0
42	1919	Greased Lightning	Andy Fletcher	100
43	1919	The Busher	Ben Harding	51
44	1919	Hay Foot, Straw Foot	Ulysses S. Grant Briggs	0
45	1919	Bill Henry	Bill Henry Jenkins	0
46	1919	The Egg Crate Wallop	Jim Kelly	0
47	1920	Alarm Clock Andy	Andrew Gray	0
48	1920	Paris Green	Luther Green	0
49	1920	Homer Comes Home	Homer Cavender	0
50	1920	45 Minutes from Broadway	Kid Burns	0
51	1920	A Village Sleuth	William Wells	0
52	1920	An Old Fashioned Boy	David Warrington	58
53	1921	The Old Swimmin' Hole	Ezra Hull	0
54	1922	Gas, Oil and Water	George Oliver Watson	0
55	1922	The Deuce of Spades	Amos	0
56	1922	A Tailor-Made Man	John Paul Bart	0
57	1923	The Girl I Loved	John Middleton	0
58	1923	The Courtship of Miles Standish	John Alden	0
59	1924	Dynamite Smith	Gladstone Smith	0
60	1925	Percy	Percival Rogeen	0
61	1925	Bright Lights	Tom Corbin	0
62	1926	Sweet Adeline	Ben Wilson	0
63	1926	Paris	Jerry	70
64	1926	The Auction Block	Bob Wharton	0
65	1926	The Fire Brigade	Terry O'Neil	35
66	1927	The American	Bill Smith	0
67	1927	Nobody's Widow	Honorable John Clayton	0
68	1927	Getting Gertie's Garter	Ken Walrick	73
69	1927	Vanity	Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland	0
70	1928	The Garden of Eden	Richard Dupont	56
71	1931	The House That Shadows Built	(archive footage)	70
72	1931	Stars of Yesterday	Self	0
73	1934	School for Girls	Duke	60
74	1934	Ladies Should Listen	Henri, the porter	58
75	1934	The Camera Speaks	Self (archive footage)	40
76	1934	By Your Leave	Leonard Purcell	30
77	1934	Ticket to a Crime	Courtney Mallory	40
78	1935	Welcome Home	Andrew Carr	0
79	1935	Just My Luck	Homer Crow	0
80	1936	Hollywood Boulevard	Charlie Smith - Assistant Director	25
81	1941	The Man Who Lost Himself	(uncredited)	40
82	1941	The Lady from Cheyenne	Bit Role	52
83	1941	Appointment for Love	Butler (uncredited)	57
84	1942	Rio Rita	Hotel Guest (uncredited)	58
85	1942	The Mad Martindales	Barbershop Customer (uncredited)	50
86	1942	Mrs. Miniver	Man getting on Bus (uncredited)	71
87	1943	Slightly Dangerous	Opera patron (uncredited)	60
88	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0

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Role

Vote Average

1913