Aldo Ray
Acting
1926-09-25 · Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography
3-D Rarities
2015 · Movie
Shock 'Em Dead
1991 · Movie
Young Rebels
1989 · Movie
Terror Night
1989 · Movie
Night Shadow
1989 · Movie
Blood Red
1989 · Movie
The Shooters
1989 · Movie
Crime of Crimes
1989 · Movie
Drug Runners
1988 · Movie
The Sicilian
1987 · Movie
Hollywood Cop
1987 · Movie
Hateman
1987 · Movie
Star Slammer
1986 · Movie
To Kill a Stranger
1986 · Movie
Terror on Alcatraz
1986 · Movie
Evils of the Night
1985 · Movie
Biohazard
1985 · Movie
Flesh and Bullets
1985 · Movie
Frankenstein's Brain
1985 · Movie
The Executioner Part II
1984 · Movie
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984 · Movie
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1984 · Movie
Vultures
1983 · Movie
Mongrel
1982 · Movie
When I Am King
1982 · Movie
The Secret of NIMH
1982 · Movie
Dark Sanity
1982 · Movie
Falcon Crest
1981 · Series
The Great Skycopter Rescue
1980 · Movie
The Glove
1979 · Movie
Human Experiments
1979 · Movie
Sweet Savage
1979 · Movie
Bog
1979 · Movie
Don't Go Near the Park
1979 · Movie
Women in White
1979 · Series
$weepstake$
1979 · Series
Death Dimension
1978 · Movie
The Lucifer Complex
1978 · Movie
CHiPs
1977 · Series
Haunted
1977 · Movie
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977 · Movie
Haunts
1976 · Movie
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976 · Movie
The Quest
1976 · Series
Paesano
1975 · Movie
Psychic Killer
1975 · Movie
Inside Out
1975 · Movie
Gone with the West
1975 · Movie
The Man Who Would Not Die
1975 · Movie
Promise Him Anything
1975 · Movie
S.W.A.T.
1975 · Series
Seven Alone
1974 · Movie
The Centerfold Girls
1974 · Movie
The Dynamite Brothers
1974 · Movie
The Bad Bunch
1973 · Movie
And Hope to Die
1972 · Movie
The Houndcats
1972 · Series
Angel Unchained
1970 · Movie
Love, American Style
1969 · Series
Deadlock
1969 · Movie
Suicide Commando
1968 · Movie
The Outsider
1968 · Series
The Green Berets
1968 · Movie
The Power
1968 · Movie
A Torn Page of Glory
1968 · Movie
Kill a Dragon
1967 · Movie
The Violent Ones
1967 · Movie
Welcome to Hard Times
1967 · Movie
Riot on Sunset Strip
1967 · Movie
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966 · Movie
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966 · Movie
Run for Your Life
1965 · Series
Nightmare in the Sun
1965 · Movie
Sylvia
1965 · Movie
Daniel Boone
1964 · Series
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Series
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Series
Burke's Law
1963 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
Musketeers of the Sea
1962 · Movie
Ben Casey
1961 · Series
Johnny Nobody
1961 · Movie
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960 · Movie
Riverboat
1959 · Series
Bonanza
1959 · Series
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959 · Movie
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 · Series
Naked City
1958 · Series
God's Little Acre
1958 · Movie
The Naked and the Dead
1958 · Movie
Men in War
1957 · Movie
Nightfall
1956 · Movie
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Series
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955 · Movie
Hollywood Preview
1955 · Series
We're No Angels
1955 · Movie
Battle Cry
1955 · Movie
Miss Sadie Thompson
1953 · Movie
Let's Do It Again
1953 · Movie
Pat and Mike
1952 · Movie
The Marrying Kind
1952 · Movie
The Barefoot Mailman
1951 · Movie
My True Story
1951 · Movie
Saturday's Hero
1951 · Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series