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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.
Most Popular Albert Ray Trailers
Total trailers found: 73
16 November 1919
When jockey Jimmie Driscoll, responsible for making Jim Richardson's horses winners, is fired for being too heavy, he goes to the home of the late Judge Bell, the father of local horse racing.
05 August 1928
College hero Charles Stanton fails miserably as an insurance agent; so he becomes a lifeguard, saves an injured swimmer and is rewarded for his valor.
13 July 1933
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
30 September 1930
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
08 June 1932
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
01 June 1935
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
30 September 1939
A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
09 May 1925
An employee is harassed by his co-workers. Later, they ambush him and try to steal the company's money.
05 June 1931
A group of Joe Penner's relatives get together to fix up a house for a pair of newlyweds. Coordination and planning is not the order of the day, so they eventually end up completely wrecking the house.
12 August 1938
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
26 November 1937
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
04 July 1926
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son.
09 August 1940
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
02 October 1927
Pete Clark, publicity manager for Henly soap, concocts a promotional contest requiring entrants to fly nonstop from California to Hawaii.
01 April 1938
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
06 April 1937
Jeff arrives in town to see the Sheriff only to find him just killed. The culprit is Clay Wheeler. When Jeff becomes friendly with Letty, Clay sends his man Ortega to kill him.
24 February 1934
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
23 September 1936
An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.
31 January 1933
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
15 November 1932
Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.
01 July 1920
A band of Klan-like night riders have been running rampant, and ranch owner Julian Marbolt (Andre Beaulieu) -- who is afflicted with day blindness and can only see in the evening -- offers a reward for the leader's capture.
24 October 1926
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
13 March 1933
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
23 January 1932
Once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.
10 May 1930
Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon.
01 April 1929
Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold digger.
31 August 1919
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
15 April 1932
Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Catskills, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.
24 March 1939
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
10 June 1936
Texas Ranger Johnny, poses as a hired gunman called The Dog Town Kid in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang, to uncover a plot by a crooked lawman, Sheriff Bradley, and a large landholder, Jim Morgan against the smaller ranches and the homesteaders.
01 March 1925
Cliff Bowes and Eddie Nelson in a Cameo comedy produced by Educational.
06 June 1925
Dog and kid comedy. With Cliff Bowes and Virginia Vance.
10 October 1934
Andy prepares to give a speech to an organization of cat lovers.
10 April 1932
A Albert Ray directed comedy short starring Al St. John & Aileen Cook where Al tries to fix his inferiority complex by visiting a fortune teller.
15 February 1923
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him.
11 February 1939
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
05 August 1922
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
20 January 1919
Struggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she has gained fame in the West as an artist.
25 April 1925
A slapstick comedy starring Cliff Bowes & Virginia Vance.
01 February 1925
Virginia Vance's father wants her to marry a count who has a couple of sidekicks to help him rob his hosts.
28 October 1930
In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly hate.
15 July 1945
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
22 July 1933
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony.
29 March 1939
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
09 August 1932
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
01 November 1920
Silent comedy featuring the Chaplin-esque Heinie Conklin. The ill-fated Virginia Rappe appears as a hotel guest.
08 January 1928
In Jedda, Persia, American consul George Gage, known as a woman hater, is shocked when his newly arrived assistant, "Billie Baxter," whom he assumes will be a man, turns out to be an attractive woman.
16 December 1938
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
14 January 1938
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him.
14 April 1934
Johnny Mack Brown stars as medical student and football star who was expelled after a night club brawl over a woman.
19 March 1937
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine.
10 July 1920
A telephone supervisor saves a banker's son from a theft charge.
30 December 1923
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
