Acting
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 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.
Movies with Charles Ray
Mrs. Miniver
1942
Rio Rita
1942
School for Girls
1934
Crooked Straight
1919
Appointment for Love
1941
Vanity
1927
Getting Gertie's Garter
1927
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Scrap Iron
1921
The House That Shadows Built
1931
Homer Comes Home
1920
The Garden of Eden
1928
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
Home
1916
Welcome Home
1935
Peaceful Valley
1920
Ticket to a Crime
1934
The City of Darkness
1914
Two Minutes to Go
1921
Alias Julius Caesar
1922
Sudden Jim
1917
The Count of Ten
1928
The Auction Block
1926
The Clodhopper
1917
A Corner in Colleens
1916
An Old Fashioned Boy
1920
By Your Leave
1934
A Tailor-Made Man
1922
Peggy
1916
Ladies Should Listen
1934
Red Hot Dollars
1919
The Mad Martindales
1942
The Fire Brigade
1926
The Camera Speaks
1934
45 Minutes from Broadway
1920
Gas, Oil and Water
1922
The Busher
1919
His Mother's Boy
1917
The Coward
1915
For Her Brother's Sake
1914
The Son of His Father
1917
Skinner's Dress Suit
1917
The Honorable Algy
1916
The Lure of Woman
1915
His Own Home Town
1918
Alarm Clock Andy
1920
The Weaker Sex
1917
The Deuce of Spades
1922
Hay Foot, Straw Foot
1919
The Pinch Hitter
1917
Dynamite Smith
1924
The Claws of the Hun
1918
The Forbidden Adventure
1915
Bright Lights
1925
The Girl Dodger
1919
Some Pun'kins
1925
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923
The Law of the North
1918
The Buried Past
1913
The Egg Crate Wallop
1919
The Cup of Life
1915
Sweet Adeline
1926
Staking His Life
1918
The Dividend
1916
The Hired Man
1918
Percy
1925
Just My Luck
1935
Nobody's Widow
1927
Honor Thy Name
1916
The Grudge
1915
The Old Swimmin' Hole
1921
The Gangsters and the Girl
1914
In the Tennessee Hills
1915
Paris Green
1920
Plain Jane
1916
A Nine O'Clock Town
1918
Playing the Game
1918
The Girl I Loved
1923
Paris
1926
Greased Lightning
1919
A Village Sleuth
1920
The Millionaire Vagrant
1917
The Family Skeleton
1918
The Wolf Woman
1916
Back of the Man
1917
The Transgressor
1913
Bill Henry
1919
The Boomerang
1913
The Sheriff's Son
1919
Old Mammy's Secret Code
1913
String Beans
1918
The American
1927
Stars of Yesterday
1931
The Conversion of Frosty Blake
1915
The Renegade
1915
The Grey Sentinel
1913
For Mother's Sake
1913
The Deserter
1916
The Quakeress
1913