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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
all 89
Movies 89
self 4
Director 1
Writer 1

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

The Mad Martindales (1942)

Rio Rita (1942)

Appointment for Love (1941)

The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)

Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

Just My Luck (1935)

Welcome Home (1935)

Ticket to a Crime (1934)

By Your Leave (1934)

The Camera Speaks (1934)

Ladies Should Listen (1934)

The House That Shadows Built (1931)

The Garden of Eden (1928)

Vanity (1927)

Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)

Nobody's Widow (1927)

The American (1927)

The Fire Brigade (1926)

The Auction Block (1926)

Paris (1926)

Sweet Adeline (1926)

Bright Lights (1925)

Percy (1925)

Dynamite Smith (1924)

The Girl I Loved (1923)

A Tailor-Made Man (1922)

Gas, Oil and Water (1922)

The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921)

An Old Fashioned Boy (1920)

A Village Sleuth (1920)

45 Minutes from Broadway (1920)

Homer Comes Home (1920)

Paris Green (1920)

Alarm Clock Andy (1920)

The Egg Crate Wallop (1919)

Bill Henry (1919)

Hay Foot, Straw Foot (1919)

The Busher (1919)

Greased Lightning (1919)

The Sheriff's Son (1919)

String Beans (1918)

The Claws of the Hun (1918)

His Own Home Town (1918)

Playing the Game (1918)

The Family Skeleton (1918)

The Hired Man (1918)

Staking His Life (1918)

His Mother's Boy (1917)

The Son of His Father (1917)

Sudden Jim (1917)

The Clodhopper (1917)

The Millionaire Vagrant (1917)

The Pinch Hitter (1917)

Back of the Man (1917)

The Weaker Sex (1917)

Plain Jane (1916)

The Wolf Woman (1916)

Home (1916)

The Deserter (1916)

The Dividend (1916)

Peggy (1916)

The Forbidden Adventure (1915)

The Coward (1915)

The Lure of Woman (1915)

The Conversion of Frosty Blake (1915)

The Renegade (1915)

The Cup of Life (1915)

The Grudge (1915)

In the Tennessee Hills (1915)

The Gangsters and the Girl (1914)

The Quakeress (1913)

The Boomerang (1913)

The Grey Sentinel (1913)

Little Miss Dolittle
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1891-03-15
Deathday1943-11-23 (52 years old)
Birth PlaceJacksonville, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsCharles Edgar Alfred Ray, Charles E. Ray, Charles Edgar Ray
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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