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Greased Lightning
1919
as Andy Fletcher
Charles Ray
Also known as: Charles Edgar Ray
Acting
Born:March 15, 1891
Died:November 23, 1943(aged 52)
Birthplace:Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (89 movies)
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Getting Gertie's Garter
1927
as Ken Walrick
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Paris
1926
as Jerry
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The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
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School for Girls
1934
as Duke
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Ladies Should Listen
1934
as Henri, the porter
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An Old Fashioned Boy
1920
as David Warrington
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The Clodhopper
1917
as Everett Nelson
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The Coward
1915
as Frank Winslow
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The Garden of Eden
1928
as Richard Dupont
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The Busher
1919
as Ben Harding
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The Man Who Lost Himself
1941
as (uncredited)
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The Camera Speaks
1934
as Self (archive footage)
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Ticket to a Crime
1934
as Courtney Mallory
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The Fire Brigade
1926
as Terry O'Neil
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
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By Your Leave
1934
as Leonard Purcell
Paris Green
1920
as Luther Green
Peggy
1916
as Colin Cameron
Hay Foot, Straw Foot
1919
as Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
The Deserter
1916
as Lieutenant Parker
A Tailor-Made Man
1922
Producer
The Egg Crate Wallop
1919
as Jim Kelly
Dynamite Smith
1924
as Gladstone Smith
The Wolf Woman
1916
as Rex Walden
The Lure of Woman
1915
as Captain Lane
The Family Skeleton
1918
as Billy Bates
Sweet Adeline
1926
as Ben Wilson
Welcome Home
1935
as Andrew Carr
Playing the Game
1918
as Larry Prentiss
Percy
1925
as Percival Rogeen
The Grudge
1915
as Dick Wayne
The Conversion of Frosty Blake
1915
as Reverend Horace Brightray
Staking His Life
1918
as Frank Hamilton
The Sheriff's Son
1919
as Royal Beaudry
Stars of Yesterday
1931
as Self
The Boomerang
1913
as Lt. Calhoun
The Transgressor
1913
as Jim
Old Mammy's Secret Code
1913
as David
For Mother's Sake
1913
The Renegade
1915
as Captain Marley
The Gangsters and the Girl
1914
Writer
The Cup of Life
1915
as John Ward
The Forbidden Adventure
1915
as Cecil Weatherby
Home
1916
as Bob Wheaton
Honor Thy Name
1916
The Weaker Sex
1917
as Jack Harding
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923
as John Alden
45 Minutes from Broadway
1920
as Kid Burns
The Son of His Father
1917
as Gordon Carbhoy
The Claws of the Hun
1918
as John Stanton
Gas, Oil and Water
1922
Director
The Grey Sentinel
1913
as Hal Peters
The Dividend
1916
as Frank Steele
The Auction Block
1926
as Bob Wharton
His Own Home Town
1918
as Jimmy Duncan
String Beans
1918
as Toby Watkins
Sudden Jim
1917
as James Ashe, Jr.
The Hired Man
1918
as Ezry Hollins
The Millionaire Vagrant
1917
as Steven Du Peyster
Nobody's Widow
1927
as Honorable John Clayton
A Nine O'Clock Town
1918
as David Clary
The Girl Dodger
1919
as Cuthbert Trotman
The Law of the North
1918
as Alain de Montcalm
Scrap Iron
1921
Director
The City of Darkness
1914
as Donald Warner - the Governor's Brother
For Her Brother's Sake
1914
as John Frye - the Brother
The Honorable Algy
1916
as The Honorable Algy
The Buried Past
1913
as Tom Winters - the Lover
Two Minutes to Go
1921
Producer
Some Pun'kins
1925
as Lem Blossom
The Old Swimmin' Hole
1921
as Ezra Hull
Alias Julius Caesar
1922
Producer
Back of the Man
1917
as Larry Thomas
Plain Jane
1916
as Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
A Village Sleuth
1920
as William Wells
In the Tennessee Hills
1915
as Jim Carson
Alarm Clock Andy
1920
as Andrew Gray
Homer Comes Home
1920
as Homer Cavender
The Pinch Hitter
1917
as Joel Parker
Just My Luck
1935
as Homer Crow
Vanity
1927
as Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
The Quakeress
1913
as John Hart - the Schoolmaster
The Girl I Loved
1923
as John Middleton
The Deuce of Spades
1922
Director
The American
1927
as Bill Smith
Bright Lights
1925
as Tom Corbin
Bill Henry
1919
as Bill Henry Jenkins
His Mother's Boy
1917
as Matthew Denton
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