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