Ray Collins
Birthday: Born in 1889-12-10 in Sacramento, California, USA
Deathday: 1965-07-11
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane, as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as the irascible Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on the television series Perry Mason.
TV Credits
Perry Mason
Character: Lieutenant Tragg
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent....
Studio One
Character: Gen. Sam Woolery
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions....
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Herbert Brenner
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
Climax!
Character: Jerome Harris
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live....
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Character: Callicott
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film....
Cavalcade of America
Character: Daniel Webster
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual cour...
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Evan Gracie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961....
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Character: Judge Harper
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film....
Movie Credits
Citizen Kane
Character: Jim W. Gettys
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event....
The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Mr. Milton
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare....
The Magnificent Ambersons
Character: Jack Amberson
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved....
Touch of Evil
Character: District Attorney Adair
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy....
The Fountainhead
Character: Roger Enright
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards....
The Racket
Character: D. A. Mortimer X. Welsh
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick....
Crack-Up
Character: Dr. Lowell
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?...
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Character: Dr. Matt Beemish
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates....
The Heiress
Character: Jefferson Almond
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance....
A Double Life
Character: Victor Donlan
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage....
The Man from Colorado
Character: Big Ed Carter
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him....
Vengeance Valley
Character: Arch Strobie
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself....
Summer Stock
Character: Jasper G. Wingait
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance....
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Character: Fred Houlihan
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen....
The Reformer and the Redhead
Character: Commodore Parker
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper....
Paid in Full
Character: Dr. Fredericks
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister....
Badman's Territory
Character: Colonel Farewell / Narrator
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in....
Leave Her to Heaven
Character: Glen Robie
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her....
The Human Comedy
Character: Mr. Macauley
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war....
The Desperate Hours
Character: Sheriff Masters
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage....
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Character: Jonathan Parker
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft....
Can't Help Singing
Character: Senator Frost
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army....
You're in the Navy Now
Character: Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines....
Hideout
Character: Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys....
Bad for Each Other
Character: Dan Reasonover
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor....
Whistling in Brooklyn
Character: Grover Kendall
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself....
Crime Doctor
Character: Dr. John Carey
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist....
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Character: Alfred Metcalfe
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations....
The Hidden Eye
Character: Phillip Treadway
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder....
Salute to the Marines
Character: Col. John Mason
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge....
See Here, Private Hargrove
Character: Brodie S. Griffith
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income....
Homecoming
Character: Lt. Col. Avery Silver
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home....
The Big Street
Character: Professor B
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him....
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Character: Johan Bergesen
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors....
Highways by Night
Character: Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters....
The Navy Comes Through
Character: Capt. McCall
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis....
Good Sam
Character: Rev. Daniels
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house....
The Miracle on 34th Street
Character: Judge Harper
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing....
Invitation
Character: Warren Pritchard
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out....
Young Man with Ideas
Character: Edmund Jethrow
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children....
Roughly Speaking
Character: John Chase Randall
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again....
Night in Paradise
Character: Leonides
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold....
Column South
Character: Storey
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody....
Texas Lady
Character: Mica Ralston (rancher)
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps....
Never Say Goodbye
Character: Dr. Bailey
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family....
Rose Marie
Character: Insp. Appleby
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered....
Slightly Dangerous
Character: Snodgrass
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity....
Up Goes Maisie
Character: Mr. Floyd Henderickson
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas....
Boys' Ranch
Character: Davis Banton
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker....
The Desert Song
Character: Gen. Birabeau
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, ...
I Want You
Character: Judge Kenneth Turner
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy....
Three Wise Fools
Character: Judge Watson
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men....
The Eve of St. Mark
Character: Deckman West
Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and his hometown girlfriend Janet discuss their future plans....
Two Years Before the Mast
Character: Gordon Stewart
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy)....
The Red Stallion
Character: Perry Barton
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt....
For the Love of Mary
Character: Harvey Elwood
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics....
Miss Susie Slagle's
Character: Dr. Elijah Howe
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease....
Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Johnny Adair
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications....
It Happens Every Spring
Character: Alfred Greenleaf
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery....
Dreamboat
Character: Timothy Stone
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans....
Command Decision
Character: Maj. Desmond Lansing
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost....
Spoilers of the Forest
Character: Eric Warren
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest....
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Character: Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion......
The Swordsman
Character: MacCoppin
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together....
Francis
Character: Colonel Hooker
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually......
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
Character: Mayor (voice)
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town....
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Character: Jonathan Parker
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."...
Kill the Umpire
Character: Jonah Evans
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him,...
Free For All
Character: A B Blair
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor....
The Kid from Left Field
Character: Fred F. Whacker
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But ...
The Go-Getter
Character: J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
The Go-Getter (1956)...
Reunion in Reno
Character: Judge Thomas Kneeland
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences....
Main Street Today
Character: Otis Bird
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from....
Madame Curie
Character: Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure....
Athena
Character: Mr. Tremaine
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family....
I'll Give My Life
Character: John Bradford
This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earned a degree in engineering. John has planned to make his son a partner in his engineering firm for many years. However, Jim has decided to enter the ministry....
The Seventh Cross
Character: Wallau
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland....
Viva la clase media
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Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties....