Aldo Ray
Aldo Ray was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima.
While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Idols in the Dust (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz"s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991).
Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991.
Known for
Falcon Crest
Phil McLish
The Virginian
Frank Krause
The Virginian
Jacob 'Jake' Walker
Love, American Style
Herb
Daniel Boone
Benton
Ben Casey
Burke's Law
Mister Harold
Naked City
Elvin Rhodes
The Steve Allen Show
Self
Run for Your Life
Vince Murdock
The Executioner Part II
Police Commissioner
The Violent Ones
Joe Vorzyck
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Sam Kimber
Miss Sadie Thompson
Sgt. Phil O'Hara
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Riverboat
Hunk Farber
The Power
Bruce
The Outsider
The Barefoot Mailman
Theron Henchman (uncredited)
CHiPs
The Sicilian
Don Siano of Bisacquino
The Great Skycopter Rescue
Sheriff Burgess
Haunted
Andrew
Hollywood Cop
Mr. Fong
Night Shadow
Gene Krebelski
The Lucifer Complex
Karl Krauss
The Quest
A Torn Page of Glory
Major Comack
The Naked and the Dead
Sam Croft
Johnny Nobody
Mark Wheeler (aka Johnny Nobody)
Young Rebels
Sheriff
To Kill a Stranger
Inspector Benedict
S.W.A.T.
The Secret of NIMH
Sullivan (voice)
Nightmare in the Sun
Sheriff
The Glove
Tiny
Human Experiments
Mat Tibbs
$weepstake$
Crawford
Blood Red
Father Stassio
Seven Alone
Dr. Dutch
We're No Angels
Albert
Battle Cry
Andy Hookens
Terror Night
Captain Ned
Evils of the Night
Fred
Psychic Killer
Lt. Dave Anderson
The Shooters
General Makepeace
The Green Berets
Sgt. Muldoon
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Charles Norgate
Saturday's Hero
Gene Hausler (as Aldo DaRe)
Deadlock
Edward Logan
Death Dimension
Verde
Riot on Sunset Strip
Lieutenant Walt Lorimer
3-D Rarities
Sgt. Phil O'Hara (archive footage)
Nightfall
James Vanning / Art Rayburn
The Bad Bunch
Lt. Stans
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Sergeant Rizzo
Terror on Alcatraz
Frank Morris
Women in White
Frederick Thaler
The Dynamite Brothers
Burke
Sylvia
Jonas Karoki
The Houndcats
Musketeers of the Sea
Moreau
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
Narrator
Mongrel
Bouchard
Biohazard
General Randolph
Hateman
Sheriff Benny
Men in War
Sgt. Montana
The Marrying Kind
'Chet' Keefer
The Centerfold Girls
Ed Walker
Drug Runners
Victor Lazzaro
Vultures
Wally
Welcome to Hard Times
Man from Bodie
Pat and Mike
Davie Hucko
Let's Do It Again
Frank McGraw
Angel Unchained
Sheriff
Flesh and Bullets
Police Lieutenant
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Stubby Stebbins
Kill a Dragon
Vigo
And Hope to Die
Mattone
God's Little Acre
Bill Thompson
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Eddie Hart
Crime of Crimes
Johnson
Suicide Commando
Seargent Cloadec
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Bürgermeister Niederhangen
Star Slammer
The Inquisitor
Inside Out
M.Sgt. Prior
Shock 'Em Dead
Tony
Mission to Glory: A True Story
Mine Boss
The Siege of Pinchgut
Matt Kirk
Bog
Sheriff Neal Rydholm
Don't Go Near the Park
Taft
Haunts
Sheriff Peterson
The Man Who Would Not Die
Frank Keefer
Gone with the West
Mimmo, Stage Robber
Promise Him Anything
Cop
Three Stripes in the Sun
Hugh O'Reilly
When I Am King
The Manager
My True Story
Mark Foster
Dark Sanity
Larry Craig
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Hollywood Preview
Self
Sweet Savage
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