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
- Invitation to a Gunfighter as Harris Clayton
- Spoilers of the Forest as Eric Warren
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Evan Gracie
- On Trial as Corbett
- 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
- The Desperate Hours as Sheriff Masters
- Texas Lady as Mica Ralston (rancher)
- The Miracle on 34th Street as Judge Harper
1954
- Father Knows Best as Dean Wilson
- Climax! as Jerome Harris
- The Halls of Ivy
- Athena as Mr. Tremaine
- Rose Marie as Insp. Appleby
1953
- Column South as Storey
- The Desert Song as Gen. Birabeau
- The Kid from Left Field as Fred F. Whacker
- Bad for Each Other as Dan Reasonover
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Daniel Webster
- Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation as Jonathan Parker
- Young Man with Ideas as Edmund Jethrow
- Dreamboat as Timothy Stone
- Invitation as Warren Pritchard
1951
- The Racket as Mortimer Welsh
- Vengeance Valley as Arch Strobie
- I Want You as Judge Kenneth Turner
- You're in the Navy Now as Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
- Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm as Jonathan Parker
- Reunion in Reno as Judge Thomas Kneeland
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Barton Keyes
- Summer Stock as Jasper G. Wingait
- Francis as Colonel Hooker
- The Reformer and the Redhead as Commodore Parker
- Paid in Full as Dr. Fredericks
- Kill the Umpire as Jonah Evans
1949
- The Heiress as Jefferson Almond
- The Fountainhead as Roger Enright
- It Happens Every Spring as Alfred Greenleaf
- Hideout as Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
- Free For All as A B Blair
- The Price of Freedom as Thomas Vollmer
- Red Stallion In The Rockies as Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
1948
- Studio One as Gen. Sam Woolery
- Good Sam as Rev. Daniels
- The Man from Colorado as Big Ed Carter
- Command Decision as Maj. Desmond Lansing
- Homecoming as Lt. Col. Avery Silver
- The Swordsman as MacCoppin
- For the Love of Mary as Harvey Elwood
1947
- A Double Life as Victor Donlan
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer as Beemish
- Trail Street as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Senator Was Indiscreet as Fred Houlihan
- The Red Stallion as Perry Barton
1946
- The Best Years of Our Lives as Mr. Milton
- Crack-Up as Dr. Lowell
- Boys' Ranch as Davis Banton
- Night in Paradise as Leonides
- The Return of Monte Cristo as Emil Blanchard
- Badman's Territory as Colonel Farewell / Narrator
- Two Years Before the Mast as Gordon Stewart
- Miss Susie Slagle's as Dr. Elijah Howe
- Three Wise Fools as Judge Watson
- Up Goes Maisie as Mr. Floyd Henderickson
1945
- Leave Her to Heaven as Glen Robie
- Roughly Speaking as John Chase Randall
- The Hidden Eye as Phillip Treadway
1944
- The Seventh Cross as Wallau
- Can't Help Singing as Senator Frost
- The Eve of St. Mark as Deckman West
- See Here, Private Hargrove as Brodie S. Griffith
- The Hitler Gang as Cardinal von Faulhaber
- Main Street Today as Otis Bird
- Barbary Coast Gent as Johnny Adair
1943
- Madame Curie as Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Human Comedy as Mr. Macauley
- Crime Doctor as Dr. John Carey
- Salute to the Marines as Col. John Mason
- Slightly Dangerous as Snodgrass
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Grover Kendall
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons as Jack Amberson
- The Big Street as Professor B
- Commandos Strike at Dawn as Johan Bergesen
- Highways by Night as Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
- The Navy Comes Through as Capt. McCall
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
- Words & Music as Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
- One Way Out as Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)