Albert Ray
Born: 1897-08-28 in New Rochelle, New York, USA
Died: 1944-02-05
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
1945
- The Cheaters ... (Original Story)
1940
- The Girl from Avenue A ... (Additional Writing)
1939
- Everybody's Baby ... (Writer)
- Winner Take All ... (Screenplay)
- Desperate Trails ... (Director)
- The Arizona Wildcat ... (Story)
1938
- Keep Smiling ... (Writer)
- While New York Sleeps ... (Screenplay)
- Island in the Sky ... (Screenplay)
- Change of Heart ... (Screenplay)
1937
- 45 Fathers ... (Writer)
- Dizzy Doctors ... (Screenplay)
- Lawless Land ... (Director)
1936
- Undercover Man ... (Director)
- Everyman's Law ... (Director)
1935
- Stage Frights ... (Director)
- The Marriage Bargain ... (Director)
1934
- Dancing Man ... (Director)
- St. Louis Woman ... (Director)
- It's the Cats ... (Director)
1933
- A Shriek in the Night ... (Director)
- The Intruder ... (Director)
- Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles ... (Director)
- West of Singapore ... (Director)
1932
- The Thirteenth Guest ... (Director)
- Unholy Love ... (Director)
- Guilty or Not Guilty ... (Director)
- Summer Daze ... (Director)
- Harem Scarem ... (Director)
- A Put Up Job ... (Director)
1931
- Moving In ... (Director)
1930
- Call of the West ... (Director)
- Her Unborn Child ... (Director)
- Kathleen Mavourneen ... (Director)
- Rolling Along ... (Director)
- We! We! Marie! ... (Director)
1929
- Molly and Me ... (Director)
- My Lady's Past ... (Director)
1928
- Woman Wise ... (Director)
- None But the Brave ... (Director)
- A Thief in the Dark ... (Director)
1927
- Publicity Madness ... (Director)
1926
- Whispering Wires ... (Director)
- More Pay - Less Work ... (Director)
- Honesty – The Best Policy ... (Director)
1925
- Rock Bottom ... (Director)
- Welcome Danger! ... (Director)
- Permit Me ... (Director)
- Wake Up ... (Director)
- Look Out ... (Director)
- Fun's Fun ... (Director)
- Ship Shape ... (Director)
- Weak Knees ... (Director)
1923
- The Girl I Loved ... (Writer)
- The Courtship of Miles Standish ... (Writer)
1922
- A Tailor-Made Man ... (Adaptation)
- Alias Julius Caesar ... (Assistant Director)
1921
1920
- The Night Riders as John Tresler
- The Honey Bee as Will Harper
- The Punch of the Irish as 1st Suitor
- The Kick in High Life as Bud Weiser
- Wet and Warmer as Billy Poste
- The Ugly Duckling as Owen Wilshire
1919
- Home as Tom Wallace
- Vagabond Luck as Jimmie Driscoll
- Be a Little Sport as Gerald Faulkner
- Love Is Love as Gerry Sands
- The Lost Princess as Samuel Blevins, Jr.
- Words and Music by - as Brian McBride
- Tin Pan Alley as Tommy Breen
- The Game's Up as Peter Neyland (as Al Ray)
1918
- When Do We Eat? as James Waterson Forbes