Charles Ray

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

135

Movies

102

Born: March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943
From: Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

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.

Works

102 films

Mrs. Miniver

19427.1

Rio Rita

19426.0

School for Girls

19347.5

Vanity

192710.0

Appointment for Love

19415.8

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Peaceful Valley

192010.0

Getting Gertie's Garter

19278.0

Scrap Iron

19217.0

Slightly Dangerous

19436.0

Home

191610.0

The Fire Brigade

19265.0

Hollywood Boulevard

19364.5

An Old Fashioned Boy

19207.2

Alias Julius Caesar

19227.0

Crooked Straight

19199.0

Red Hot Dollars

191910.0

The Count of Ten

19287.0

The Man Who Lost Himself

19415.4

Skinner's Dress Suit

1917

The Lady from Cheyenne

19415.7

The Coward

19155.8

The City of Darkness

1914

For Her Brother's Sake

19149.0

The Cup of Life

1915

The Buried Past

19138.0

The House That Shadows Built

19318.5

By Your Leave

19344.3

The Boomerang

1913

Paris Green

19209.0

Ladies Should Listen

19346.2

Bright Lights

19259.0

A Corner in Colleens

191610.0

Peggy

1916

The Honorable Algy

191610.0

The Wolf Woman

19168.0

Greased Lightning

19199.0

Some Pun'kins

192510.0

The Busher

19195.1

A Tailor-Made Man

1922

The Camera Speaks

19345.0

The Mad Martindales

19427.5

Ticket to a Crime

19346.0

The Egg Crate Wallop

191910.0

The Garden of Eden

19285.9

The Sheriff's Son

19198.0

Bill Henry

1919

The Weaker Sex

1917

The Old Swimmin' Hole

192110.0

The Claws of the Hun

1918

Honor Thy Name

1916

Stars of Yesterday

19319.0

The Law of the North

19188.0

Sweet Adeline

192610.0

The Grey Sentinel

19139.0

The Family Skeleton

1918

45 Minutes from Broadway

19209.0

The Millionaire Vagrant

1917

The Clodhopper

19177.2

The Auction Block

19267.0

A Nine O'Clock Town

1918

His Own Home Town

19188.0

Back of the Man

1917

Homer Comes Home

192010.0

Dynamite Smith

192410.0

The Lure of Woman

1915

The American

19277.0

The Hired Man

1918

Just My Luck

19359.0

The Son of His Father

1917

Welcome Home

19359.0

Plain Jane

1916

The Deuce of Spades

192210.0

The Girl I Loved

19238.0

Old Mammy's Secret Code

1913

String Beans

1918

Alarm Clock Andy

19209.0

Percy

192510.0

His Mother's Boy

19177.0

The Pinch Hitter

19177.0

Gas, Oil and Water

19229.0

The Courtship of Miles Standish

192310.0

The Forbidden Adventure

1915

The Gangsters and the Girl

191410.0

For Mother's Sake

19138.0

Sudden Jim

19177.0

The Girl Dodger

19198.0

The Grudge

1915

Two Minutes to Go

19219.0

The Transgressor

19138.0

The Deserter

1916

The Conversion of Frosty Blake

1915

A Village Sleuth

19207.0

Playing the Game

1918

Hay Foot, Straw Foot

191910.0

Nobody's Widow

192710.0

The Quakeress

1913

In the Tennessee Hills

19158.0

Paris

19267.0

The Dividend

1916

Staking His Life

19189.0

The Renegade

19159.0