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Albert Ray

Albert Ray

Director · 1897–1944 · New Rochelle, New York, USA

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Biography

Albert Ray, born in New Rochelle, NY, attended Townsend Harris Hall and City College of New York. He spent summer vacations as a member of the Vitagraph stock company, on 14th St. in New York City. He appeared in summer stock in White Plains (NY), Florida and the Harlem Opera House in New York City. He directed short subjects for Pathe on the East Coast, went to Hollywood in 1915 and directed Ben Turpin pictures for the Vogue Film Co. and then Sunshine Comedies for Fox. He also acted opposite Ruth Clifford and Mildred Harris at Universal and co-starred with Elinor Fair at Fox. His first feature-length film as director was Scrap Iron (1921) starring Charles Ray (his cousin) for First National, and altogether he directed nine of his cousin's comedies for the studio. He returned to Fox and directed the "Helen and Warren" series and 19 features.

Directed 27

1930s

  1. 1939

    Desperate Trails

    Director

  2. 1937

    Lawless Land

    Director

  3. 1936

    Undercover Man

    Director

  4. Everyman's Law

    Director

  5. 1934

    St. Louis Woman

    Director

  6. Dancing Man

    Director

  7. 1933

    A Shriek in the Night

    Director

    53

  8. Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

    Director

  9. The Intruder

    Director

  10. West of Singapore

    Director

  11. 1932

    Guilty or Not Guilty

    Director

  12. The Thirteenth Guest

    Director

  13. Unholy Love

    Director

  14. 1930

    Kathleen Mavourneen

    Director

  15. Call of the West

    Director

  16. Her Unborn Child

    Director

1920s

  1. 1929

    My Lady's Past

    Director

  2. Molly and Me

    Director

  3. 1928

    None But the Brave

    Director

  4. A Thief in the Dark

    Director

  5. Woman Wise

    Director

  6. 1927

    Publicity Madness

    Director

  7. 1926

    Whispering Wires

    Director

  8. More Pay - Less Work

    Director

  9. 1922

    Alias Julius Caesar

    Assistant Director

  10. Smudge

    Assistant Director

  11. 1920

    The Kick in High Life

    Director

Wrote 15

1930s

  1. 1939

    Winner Take All

    Screenplay

  2. Everybody's Baby

    Writer

  3. The Arizona Wildcat

    Story

  4. 1938

    While New York Sleeps

    Screenplay

  5. Keep Smiling

    Writer

  6. Island in the Sky

    Screenplay

  7. Change of Heart

    Screenplay

  8. 1937

    45 Fathers

    Writer

  9. Dizzy Doctors

    Screenplay

  10. 1934

    Dancing Man

    Writer

1920s

  1. 1928

    A Thief in the Dark

    Story

  2. 1923

    The Courtship of Miles Standish

    Writer

  3. The Girl I Loved

    Writer

  4. 1922

    A Tailor-Made Man

    Adaptation

Acted in 14

1920s

  1. 1920

    The Punch of the Irish

    1st Suitor

  2. Wet and Warmer

    Billy Poste

  3. The Kick in High Life

    Bud Weiser

  4. The Night Riders

    John Tresler

  5. The Honey Bee

    Will Harper

1910s

  1. 1919

    Tin Pan Alley

    Tommy Breen

  2. Vagabond Luck

    Jimmie Driscoll

  3. The Lost Princess

    Samuel Blevins, Jr.

  4. Home

    Tom Wallace

  5. Love Is Love

    Gerry Sands

  6. Be a Little Sport

    Gerald Faulkner

  7. Words and Music by -

    Brian McBride

  8. The Game's Up

    Peter Neyland (as Al Ray)

  9. 1918

    When Do We Eat?

    James Waterson Forbes

Produced 1

1930s

  1. 1932

    Unholy Love

    Producer

Other crew 1

1940s

  1. 1940

    The Girl from Avenue A

    Additional Writing