John Wray

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-02-12 (53 years old)

Deathday

1940-04-05

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

John Wray

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Wray (13 February 1887 - 5 April 1940) was an American character actor of stage and screen. Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly made an indelible impression on the era in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in The Czar of Broadway (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of The Miracle Man (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. During ...

Acting

1932

Doctor X

as Dr. Haines

1939

Each Dawn I Die

as Pete Kassock

1940

The Man from Dakota

as Mr. Carpenter

1932

High Pressure

as Jimmy Moore

1937

You Only Live Once

as Warden Wheeler

1931

Safe in Hell

as Eagan

1933

Lone Cowboy

as Bill O'Neal

1938

Spawn of the North

as Dr. Sparks

1934

Green Eyes

as Inspector Crofton

1934

1932

1939

Blackmail

as Convict Diggs

1938

Tenth Avenue Kid

as Joe Turner

1935

Frisco Kid

as The Weasel

1932

The Mouthpiece

as Mr. Barton

1932

The Match King

as Foreman of Janitors

1938

What Price Safety!

as J. Z. Wray

1931

Quick Millions

as Kenneth Stone

1929

New York Nights

as Joe Prividi

1932

1932

Central Park

as Robert Smiley

1938

A Man to Remember

as Tom Johnson

1936

1937

Circus Girl

as Roebling

1935

Atlantic Adventure

as Mitts Coster

1934

The Defense Rests

as Michael Cooney

1932

The Woman from Monte Carlo

as Cmdr. Brambourg

1938

1938

The Black Doll

as Walling

1933

After Tonight

as Mitika, the Gypsy Contact

1934

I Am a Thief

as Antonio Poricci

1935

Bad Boy

as Fred Larkin

1934

Fifteen Wives

as Jason Getty

1939

Almost a Gentleman

as 'Crack' Williams

1930

The Czar of Broadway

as Morton Bradstreet

1932

The Miracle Man

as The Frog

1934

1939

1937

1934

Bombay Mail

as Giovanni Martini

1937

1939

1936

1935

Men Without Names

as Sam Hammond

1936

Sworn Enemy

as Lang, a Gangster

1939

Pacific Liner

as Metcalfe

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)

1939

Golden Boy

as Chocolate Drop's Manager

1938

Professor Beware

as Head Lawyer

1937

On Such a Night

as Guard Rumann

1931

Silence

as Harry Silvers

1939

Smuggled Cargo

as Chris Hays

1936

A Son Comes Home

as Gas Station Owner

1937

The Women Men Marry

as Brother Nameless

1932

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

as Nordine (uncredited)

1940

The Doctor Takes a Wife

as Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)

1938

Making the Headlines

as Herbert Sandford

1940

Know Your Money

as Bowers the Printer

1932

The Death Kiss

as Detective Lieut. Sheehan

1937

Outcast

as Hank Simmerson

1938

Boys Town

as Weasel (uncredited)

1939

Winter Carnival

as Poultry Truck Driver

1934

The Crosby Case

as Willie McGuire

1935

Stranded

as Mike Gibbons

1934

I'll Fix It

as Fletcher

1935

1940

Outside the Three-Mile Limit

as Ship's Captain (uncredited)

Production

1931

Quick Millions

as Additional Dialogue

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