Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1887-02-12 (53 years old)
Deathday
1940-04-05
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known As
John Griffith Malloy
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 ...
1930
as Himmelstoss
1932
as Dr. Haines
1936
as Farmer
1940
as Hank
1939
as Pete Kassock
1940
as Mr. Carpenter
1932
as Jimmy Moore
1937
as Warden Wheeler
1931
as Eagan
1933
as Bill O'Neal
1938
as Dr. Sparks
1934
as Inspector Crofton
1934
as Higgins
1932
as Clark Davis
1939
as Convict Diggs
1938
as Joe Turner
1935
as The Weasel
1932
as Mr. Barton
1932
as Foreman of Janitors
1938
as J. Z. Wray
1931
as Kenneth Stone
1929
as Joe Prividi
1932
as Hugo
1932
as Robert Smiley
1938
as Tom Johnson
1936
as Sparks
1937
as Roebling
1935
as Mitts Coster
1934
as Michael Cooney
1932
as Cmdr. Brambourg
1938
as Maddock
1938
as Walling
1933
as Mitika, the Gypsy Contact
1934
as Antonio Poricci
1935
as Fred Larkin
1934
as Jason Getty
1939
as 'Crack' Williams
1930
as Morton Bradstreet
1932
as The Frog
1934
as Mr. Jeddock
1939
as Silas
1934
as Carter
1937
as Joe Peters
1934
as Giovanni Martini
1939
as Stanley
1937
as Jerry Daley
1939
as Hendricks
1936
as Priest
1936
as George Darnley
1935
as Sam Hammond
1936
as Lang, a Gangster
1939
as Metcalfe
1939
as Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)
1939
as Chocolate Drop's Manager
1938
as Head Lawyer
1937
as Guard Rumann
1931
as Harry Silvers
1939
as Chris Hays
1936
as Gas Station Owner
1936
as Shane
1940
as Ramsey
1937
as Brother Nameless
1932
as Nordine (uncredited)
1940
as Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)
1938
as Herbert Sandford
1940
as Bowers the Printer
1932
as Detective Lieut. Sheehan
1937
as Hank Simmerson
1938
as Weasel (uncredited)
1939
as Poultry Truck Driver
1934
as Willie McGuire
1935
as Mike Gibbons
1936
as Flagin
1934
as Fletcher
1935
as Feets Moore
1934
as Slug
1938
as Howell
1940
as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
1931
as Additional Dialogue
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