Charles Ray
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.
The Wolf Woman
(Rex Walden)
The Family Skeleton
(Billy Bates)
Sweet Adeline
(Ben Wilson)
Welcome Home
(Andrew Carr)
Playing the Game
(Larry Prentiss)
Percy
(Percival Rogeen)
The Conversion of Frosty Blake
(Reverend Horace Brightray)
The Grudge
(Dick Wayne)
Staking His Life
(Frank Hamilton)
The Sheriff's Son
(Royal Beaudry)
Stars of Yesterday
(Self)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
(Self (archive footage))
Old Mammy's Secret Code
(David)
The Boomerang
(Lt. Calhoun)
The Transgressor
(Jim)
For Mother's Sake
The Renegade
(Captain Marley)
The Gangsters and the Girl
(Detective John Stone)
The Cup of Life
(John Ward)
Honor Thy Name
Home
(Bob Wheaton)
The Forbidden Adventure
(Cecil Weatherby)
The Weaker Sex
(Jack Harding)
The Courtship of Miles Standish
(John Alden)
45 Minutes from Broadway
(Kid Burns)
The Camera Speaks
(Self (archive footage))
Mrs. Miniver
(Man getting on Bus (uncredited))
The Son of His Father
(Gordon Carbhoy)
The Fire Brigade
(Terry O'Neil)
The Coward
(Frank Winslow)
Just My Luck
(Homer Crow)
By Your Leave
(Leonard Purcell)
Ticket to a Crime
(Courtney Mallory)
Getting Gertie's Garter
(Ken Walrick)
The House That Shadows Built
((archive footage))
The Claws of the Hun
(John Stanton)
Gas, Oil and Water
(George Oliver Watson)
The Grey Sentinel
(Hal Peters)
The Dividend
(Frank Steele)
The Busher
(Ben Harding)
Vanity
(Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland)
The Garden of Eden
(Richard Dupont)
The Auction Block
(Bob Wharton)
His Own Home Town
(Jimmy Duncan)
String Beans
(Toby Watkins)
Sudden Jim
(James Ashe, Jr.)
The Hired Man
(Ezry Hollins)
The Millionaire Vagrant
(Steven Du Peyster)
Hollywood Boulevard
(Charlie Smith - Assistant Director)
The Lady from Cheyenne
(Bit Role)
The Clodhopper
(Everett Nelson)
The Quakeress
(John Hart - the Schoolmaster)
The Lure of Woman
(Captain Lane)
Ladies Should Listen
(Henri, the porter)
The Man Who Lost Himself
((uncredited))
Slightly Dangerous
(Opera patron (uncredited))
The Deuce of Spades
(Amos)
The American
(Bill Smith)
Bright Lights
(Tom Corbin)
Back of the Man
(Larry Thomas)
Plain Jane
(Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams')
A Village Sleuth
(William Wells)
In the Tennessee Hills
(Jim Carson)
Homer Comes Home
(Homer Cavender)
An Old Fashioned Boy
(David Warrington)
Alarm Clock Andy
(Andrew Gray)
The Pinch Hitter
(Joel Parker)
Bill Henry
(Bill Henry Jenkins)
His Mother's Boy
(Matthew Denton)
Rio Rita
(Hotel Guest (uncredited))
Greased Lightning
(Andy Fletcher)
Paris Green
(Luther Green)
Peggy
(Colin Cameron)
Paris
(Jerry)
School for Girls
(Duke)
Appointment for Love
(Butler (uncredited))
The Deserter
(Lieutenant Parker)
A Tailor-Made Man
(John Paul Bart)
Hay Foot, Straw Foot
(Ulysses S. Grant Briggs)
The Old Swimmin' Hole
(Ezra Hull)
The Egg Crate Wallop
(Jim Kelly)
Dynamite Smith
(Gladstone Smith)
The Girl I Loved
(John Middleton)
The Mad Martindales
(Barbershop Customer (uncredited))