Biography
John Griffith Wray (August 30, 1881 β July 15, 1929) was an American stage actor and director who later became a noted Hollywood silent film director. He worked on 19 films between 1913 and 1929 that included Anna Christie (1923) and Human Wreckage (1923), Dorothy Davenport's story about her husband Wallace Reid's drug addiction and death. Wray was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in Los Angeles, California. By 1912 Wray was a leading actor and stage director with the World's Fair Stock Company's yearlong Hawaiian tour. He married actress Virginia Brissac in Santa Ana, California, on June 29, 1915, and became the step-father of screenwriter Ardel Wray. The couple divorced in 1927. In October 1928, less than a year before his death, Wray married Bradley King, a Hollywood screenwriter.
Filmography
all 18
Movies 18
Director 15
Writer 2
self 1
A Most Immoral Lady (1929)
The Careless Age (1929)
Alibi (1929)
Singed (1927)
Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
The Gilded Butterfly (1926)
The Winding Stair (1925)
Anna Christie (1923)
Her Reputation (1923)
Human Wreckage (1923)
Soul of the Beast (1923)
What a Wife Learned (1923)
Hail the Woman (1921)
Beau Revel (1921)
Lying Lips (1921)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1881-08-30
Deathday1929-07-12 (47 years old)
Birth PlaceMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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