Ray Collins
Born: 1889-12-10 in Sacramento, California, USA
Died: 1965-07-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1980
1960
- I'll Give My Life as John Bradford
1958
- Touch of Evil as District Attorney Adair
1957
- Perry Mason as Lieutenant Tragg
- Spoilers of the Forest as Eric Warren
- Invitation to a Gunfighter as Harris Clayton
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Evan Gracie
- Never Say Goodbye as Dr. Bailey
- The Solid Gold Cadillac as Alfred Metcalfe
- The Go-Getter as J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Herbert Brenner
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Callicott
- Texas Lady as Mica Ralston (rancher)
- The Miracle on 34th Street as Judge Harper
- The Desperate Hours as Sheriff Masters
1954
- Climax! as Jerome Harris
- Rose Marie as Insp. Appleby
- Athena as Mr. Tremaine
- The Halls of Ivy
1953
- The Desert Song as Gen. Birabeau
- Column South as Storey
- Bad for Each Other as Dan Reasonover
- The Kid from Left Field as Fred F. Whacker
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Daniel Webster
- Dreamboat as Timothy Stone
- Invitation as Warren Pritchard
- Young Man with Ideas as Edmund Jethrow
- Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation as Jonathan Parker
1951
- The Racket as Mortimer Welsh
- You're in the Navy Now as Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
- I Want You as Judge Kenneth Turner
- Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm as Jonathan Parker
- Reunion in Reno as Judge Thomas Kneeland
- Vengeance Valley as Arch Strobie
1950
- Francis as Colonel Hooker
- Lux Video Theatre as Barton Keyes
- Summer Stock as Jasper G. Wingait
- Paid in Full as Dr. Fredericks
- The Reformer and the Redhead as Commodore Parker
- Kill the Umpire as Jonah Evans
1949
- The Fountainhead as Roger Enright
- The Heiress as Jefferson Almond
- It Happens Every Spring as Alfred Greenleaf
- Red Stallion In The Rockies as Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
- Free For All as A B Blair
- Hideout as Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
- The Price of Freedom as Thomas Vollmer
1948
- Studio One as Gen. Sam Woolery
- Homecoming as Lt. Col. Avery Silver
- Good Sam as Rev. Daniels
- The Swordsman as MacCoppin
- Command Decision as Maj. Desmond Lansing
- The Man from Colorado as Big Ed Carter
- For the Love of Mary as Harvey Elwood
1947
- Trail Street as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Dr. Matt Beemish
- A Double Life as Victor Donlan
- The Red Stallion as Perry Barton
- The Senator Was Indiscreet as Fred Houlihan
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Mr. Milton
- Up Goes Maisie as Mr. Floyd Henderickson
- Three Wise Fools as Judge Watson
- Night in Paradise as Leonides
- Badman's Territory as Colonel Farewell / Narrator
- Two Years Before the Mast as Gordon Stewart
- The Return of Monte Cristo as Emil Blanchard
- Miss Susie Slagle's as Dr. Elijah Howe
- Boys' Ranch as Davis Banton
- Crack-Up as Dr. Lowell
1945
- Leave Her to Heaven as Glen Robie
- Roughly Speaking as John Chase Randall
- The Hidden Eye as Phillip Treadway
1944
- See Here, Private Hargrove as Brodie S. Griffith
- The Seventh Cross as Wallau
- Main Street Today as Otis Bird
- The Hitler Gang as Cardinal von Faulhaber
- The Eve of St. Mark as Deckman West
- Can't Help Singing as Senator Frost
- Barbary Coast Gent as Johnny Adair
1943
- Madame Curie as Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
- Slightly Dangerous as Snodgrass
- Crime Doctor as Dr. John Carey
- The Human Comedy as Mr. Macauley
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Grover Kendall
- Salute to the Marines as Col. John Mason
1942
- Commandos Strike at Dawn as Johan Bergesen
- The Magnificent Ambersons as Jack Amberson
- The Big Street as Professor B
- The Navy Comes Through as Capt. McCall
- Highways by Night as Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
1941
- Citizen Kane as Jim W. Gettys
1940
- Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men as Mayor (voice)
1932
- The Trans-Atlantic Mystery as Waite
1931
- One Way Out as Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
- Words & Music as Mr. Lambert (uncredited)