Charles Ray
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1891-03-15
Deathday 1943-11-23 (52 years old)
Place of Birth Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
Also Known As Charles Edgar Alfred Ray, Charles E. Ray, Charles Edgar Ray
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.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Opera patron (uncredited)
as Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
as Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
as Butler (uncredited)
as Bit Role
as (uncredited)
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
as Homer Crow
as Andrew Carr
as Courtney Mallory
as Leonard Purcell
as Self (archive footage)
as Henri, the porter
as Duke
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Richard Dupont
as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
as Ken Walrick
as Bill Smith
as Terry O'Neil
as Bob Wharton
as Jerry
as Ben Wilson
as Tom Corbin
as Percival Rogeen
as Gladstone Smith
as John Alden
as John Middleton
as John Paul Bart
as Amos
as George Oliver Watson
as Ezra Hull
as David Warrington
as William Wells
as Kid Burns
as Homer Cavender
as Luther Green
as Andrew Gray
as Jim Kelly
as Bill Henry Jenkins
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
as Ben Harding
as Andy Fletcher
as Royal Beaudry
as Toby Watkins
as John Stanton
as Jimmy Duncan
as Larry Prentiss
as Billy Bates
as Ezry Hollins
as Frank Hamilton
as Matthew Denton
as Gordon Carbhoy
as James Ashe, Jr.
as Everett Nelson
as Steven Du Peyster
as Joel Parker
as Larry Thomas
as Jack Harding
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
as Rex Walden
as Bob Wheaton
as Lieutenant Parker
as Frank Steele
as Colin Cameron
as Cecil Weatherby
as Frank Winslow
as Captain Lane
as Reverend Horace Brightray
as Captain Marley
as John Ward
as Dick Wayne
as Jim Carson
as Detective John Stone
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
as David
as Jim
as Lt. Calhoun
as Hal Peters
Director
as Director
as Director
Writer
as Writer