Charles Ray

Known for ActingBorn 1891-03-15Died 1943-11-23Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Vanity

Nobody's Widow

Sweet Adeline

Percy

Some Pun'kins

Dynamite Smith

The Courtship of Miles Standish

The Deuce of Spades

The Old Swimmin' Hole

Homer Comes Home

Peaceful Valley

Hay Foot, Straw Foot

The Egg Crate Wallop

Red Hot Dollars

Home

The Honorable Algy

A Corner in Colleens

The Gangsters and the Girl

Welcome Home

Just My Luck

Stars of Yesterday

Bright Lights

Gas, Oil and Water

Two Minutes to Go

45 Minutes from Broadway

Alarm Clock Andy

Paris Green

Greased Lightning

Crooked Straight

Staking His Life

The Renegade

For Her Brother's Sake

The Grey Sentinel

The House That Shadows Built

Getting Gertie's Garter

The Girl I Loved

The Sheriff's Son

The Girl Dodger

His Own Home Town

The Law of the North

The Wolf Woman

In the Tennessee Hills

The Transgressor

For Mother's Sake

The Buried Past

The Mad Martindales

School for Girls

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino