Charles Ray

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-03-15 (52 years old)

Deathday

1943-11-23

Place of Birth

Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

Charles Ray

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 bre...

Acting

1916

The Wolf Woman

as Rex Walden

1918

The Family Skeleton

as Billy Bates

1926

Sweet Adeline

as Ben Wilson

1935

Welcome Home

as Andrew Carr

1918

Playing the Game

as Larry Prentiss

1925

Percy

as Percival Rogeen

1915

The Grudge

as Dick Wayne

1915

The Conversion of Frosty Blake

as Reverend Horace Brightray

1918

Staking His Life

as Frank Hamilton

1919

The Sheriff's Son

as Royal Beaudry

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1913

The Boomerang

as Lt. Calhoun

1915

The Renegade

as Captain Marley

1914

The Gangsters and the Girl

as Detective John Stone

1915

The Cup of Life

as John Ward

1915

The Forbidden Adventure

as Cecil Weatherby

1917

The Weaker Sex

as Jack Harding

1916

Home

as Bob Wheaton

1920

1934

The Camera Speaks

as Self (archive footage)

1942

Mrs. Miniver

as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)

1917

The Son of His Father

as Gordon Carbhoy

1926

The Fire Brigade

as Terry O'Neil

1915

The Coward

as Frank Winslow

1935

Just My Luck

as Homer Crow

1934

By Your Leave

as Leonard Purcell

1934

Ticket to a Crime

as Courtney Mallory

1927

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1918

The Claws of the Hun

as John Stanton

1922

Gas, Oil and Water

as George Oliver Watson

1913

The Grey Sentinel

as Hal Peters

1916

The Dividend

as Frank Steele

1919

The Busher

as Ben Harding

1927

Vanity

as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland

1928

The Garden of Eden

as Richard Dupont

1926

The Auction Block

as Bob Wharton

1918

His Own Home Town

as Jimmy Duncan

1918

String Beans

as Toby Watkins

1917

Sudden Jim

as James Ashe, Jr.

1918

The Hired Man

as Ezry Hollins

1917

The Millionaire Vagrant

as Steven Du Peyster

1936

Hollywood Boulevard

as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director

1941

1917

The Clodhopper

as Everett Nelson

1913

The Quakeress

as John Hart - the Schoolmaster

1915

The Lure of Woman

as Captain Lane

1934

Ladies Should Listen

as Henri, the porter

1941

1943

Slightly Dangerous

as Opera patron (uncredited)

1927

The American

as Bill Smith

1925

Bright Lights

as Tom Corbin

1917

Back of the Man

as Larry Thomas

1916

Plain Jane

as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'

1920

A Village Sleuth

as William Wells

1915

1920

Alarm Clock Andy

as Andrew Gray

1920

An Old Fashioned Boy

as David Warrington

1920

Homer Comes Home

as Homer Cavender

1917

The Pinch Hitter

as Joel Parker

1919

Bill Henry

as Bill Henry Jenkins

1917

His Mother's Boy

as Matthew Denton

1942

Rio Rita

as Hotel Guest (uncredited)

1919

Greased Lightning

as Andy Fletcher

1920

Paris Green

as Luther Green

1916

Peggy

as Colin Cameron

1926

Paris

as Jerry

1934

1941

Appointment for Love

as Butler (uncredited)

1916

The Deserter

as Lieutenant Parker

1922

A Tailor-Made Man

as John Paul Bart

1919

Hay Foot, Straw Foot

as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs

1921

1919

1924

Dynamite Smith

as Gladstone Smith

1923

The Girl I Loved

as John Middleton

1942

The Mad Martindales

as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)

1918

A Nine O'Clock Town

as David Clary

1919

The Girl Dodger

as Cuthbert Trotman

1918

The Law of the North

as Alain de Montcalm

1927

Nobody's Widow

as Honorable John Clayton

Production

1922

1922

1922

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