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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 15, 1891
Died
November 23, 1943
Place of Birth
Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Charles Edgar Alfred Ray
- Charles E. Ray
- Charles Edgar Ray
- Чарльс Рей
- Чарльз Рэй
Charles Ray
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Biography
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
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Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
6.1
Opera patron (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous
1943
7.1
Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
Mrs. Miniver
1942
5.0
Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
The Mad Martindales
1942
5.8
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Rio Rita
1942
5.4
Butler (uncredited)
Appointment for Love
1941
4.6
Bit Role
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
4.3
(uncredited)
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
2.7
Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
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Homer Crow
Just My Luck
1935
Credits
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
0.0
Slightly Dangerous
as Opera patron (uncredited)
1943
6.1
Mrs. Miniver
as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
1942
7.1
The Mad Martindales
as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
1942
5.0
Rio Rita
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
1942
5.8
Appointment for Love
as Butler (uncredited)
1941
5.4
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Bit Role
1941
4.6
The Man Who Lost Himself
as (uncredited)
1941
4.3
Hollywood Boulevard
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
1936
2.7
Just My Luck
as Homer Crow
1935
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Welcome Home
as Andrew Carr
1935
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Ticket to a Crime
as Courtney Mallory
1934
4.0
By Your Leave
as Leonard Purcell
1934
2.3
The Camera Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
1934
5.0
Ladies Should Listen
as Henri, the porter
1934
5.8
School for Girls
as Duke
1934
6.0
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
1931
0.0
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
7.0
🎬
The Count of Ten
1928
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The Garden of Eden
as Richard Dupont
1928
5.6
Vanity
as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
1927
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Getting Gertie's Garter
as Ken Walrick
1927
7.3
Nobody's Widow
as Honorable John Clayton
1927
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The American
as Bill Smith
1927
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The Fire Brigade
as Terry O'Neil
1926
3.5
The Auction Block
as Bob Wharton
1926
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Paris
as Jerry
1926
7.0
Sweet Adeline
as Ben Wilson
1926
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Bright Lights
as Tom Corbin
1925
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Some Pun'kins
as Lem Blossom
1925
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Percy
as Percival Rogeen
1925
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Dynamite Smith
as Gladstone Smith
1924
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
as John Alden
1923
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The Girl I Loved
as John Middleton
1923
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A Tailor-Made Man
as John Paul Bart
1922
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Alias Julius Caesar
as Billy Barnes
1922
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The Deuce of Spades
as Amos
1922
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Gas, Oil and Water
as George Oliver Watson
1922
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Two Minutes to Go
as Chester Burnett
1921
0.0
Scrap Iron
as John Steel
1921
0.0
The Old Swimmin' Hole
as Ezra Hull
1921
0.0
An Old Fashioned Boy
as David Warrington
1920
5.8
Peaceful Valley
as Hosiah Howe
1920
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A Village Sleuth
as William Wells
1920
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45 Minutes from Broadway
as Kid Burns
1920
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Homer Comes Home
as Homer Cavender
1920
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Paris Green
as Luther Green
1920
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Alarm Clock Andy
as Andrew Gray
1920
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The Egg Crate Wallop
as Jim Kelly
1919
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Bill Henry
as Bill Henry Jenkins
1919
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Hay Foot, Straw Foot
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
1919
0.0
The Busher
as Ben Harding
1919
5.1
Greased Lightning
as Andy Fletcher
1919
10.0
The Sheriff's Son
as Royal Beaudry
1919
0.0
The Girl Dodger
as Cuthbert Trotman
1919
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String Beans
as Toby Watkins
1918
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The Law of the North
as Alain de Montcalm
1918
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A Nine O'Clock Town
as David Clary
1918
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The Claws of the Hun
as John Stanton
1918
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His Own Home Town
as Jimmy Duncan
1918
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Playing the Game
as Larry Prentiss
1918
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The Family Skeleton
as Billy Bates
1918
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The Hired Man
as Ezry Hollins
1918
0.0
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Staking His Life
as Frank Hamilton
1918
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His Mother's Boy
as Matthew Denton
1917
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The Son of His Father
as Gordon Carbhoy
1917
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Sudden Jim
as James Ashe, Jr.
1917
0.0
The Clodhopper
as Everett Nelson
1917
5.8
The Millionaire Vagrant
as Steven Du Peyster
1917
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The Pinch Hitter
as Joel Parker
1917
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Back of the Man
as Larry Thomas
1917
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Skinner's Dress Suit
1917
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The Weaker Sex
as Jack Harding
1917
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The Honorable Algy
as The Honorable Algy
1916
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A Corner in Colleens
as Richard Taylor
1916
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Plain Jane
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
1916
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The Wolf Woman
as Rex Walden
1916
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Home
as Bob Wheaton
1916
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Honor Thy Name
1916
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The Deserter
as Lieutenant Parker
1916
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The Dividend
as Frank Steele
1916
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Peggy
as Colin Cameron
1916
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The Forbidden Adventure
as Cecil Weatherby
1915
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The Coward
as Frank Winslow
1915
5.8
🎬
The Lure of Woman
as Captain Lane
1915
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The Conversion of Frosty Blake
as Reverend Horace Brightray
1915
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The Renegade
as Captain Marley
1915
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🎬
The Cup of Life
as John Ward
1915
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The Grudge
as Dick Wayne
1915
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In the Tennessee Hills
as Jim Carson
1915
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🎬
The City of Darkness
as Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
1914
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The Gangsters and the Girl
as Detective John Stone
1914
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🎬
For Her Brother's Sake
as John Frye - the Brother
1914
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The Buried Past
as Tom Winters - the Lover
1913
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For Mother's Sake
1913
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The Quakeress
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
1913
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Old Mammy's Secret Code
as David
1913
0.0
🎬
The Transgressor
as Jim
1913
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The Boomerang
as Lt. Calhoun
1913
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🎬
The Grey Sentinel
as Hal Peters
1913
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