Ray Collins

Born: 1889-12-09

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.


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Citizen Kane

as Jim W. Gettys
Released: 1941-04-17

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a...

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Leave Her to Heaven

as Glen Robie
Released: 1945-12-25

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous...

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Touch of Evil

as District Attorney Adair
Released: 1958-03-30

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug...

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The Best Years of Our Lives

as Mr. Milton
Released: 1946-12-25

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally...

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Vengeance Valley

as Arch Strobie
Released: 1951-02-14

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy....

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The Desperate Hours

as Sheriff Masters
Released: 1955-10-05

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

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The Heiress

as Jefferson Almond
Released: 1949-10-06

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an...

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The Fountainhead

as Roger Enright
Released: 1949-06-25

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism...

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Madame Curie

as Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-16

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women...

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

as Dr. Matt Beemish
Released: 1947-09-01

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his...

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Salute to the Marines

as Col. John Mason
Released: 1943-09-02

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese...

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The Magnificent Ambersons

as Jack Amberson
Released: 1942-07-10

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the...

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Command Decision

as Maj. Desmond Lansing
Released: 1948-12-23

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories...

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The Man from Colorado

as Big Ed Carter
Released: 1948-08-07

Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of...

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See Here, Private Hargrove

as Brodie S. Griffith
Released: 1944-03-18

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about...

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The Seventh Cross

as Wallau
Released: 1944-07-24

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up...

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Athena

as Mr. Tremaine
Released: 1954-11-04

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food...

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The Racket

as D. A. Mortimer X. Welsh
Released: 1951-10-25

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick...

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A Double Life

as Victor Donlan
Released: 1947-12-25

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage...

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Good Sam

as Rev. Daniels
Released: 1948-09-01

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help...

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Crack-Up

as Dr. Lowell
Released: 1946-09-06

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up,...

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Kill the Umpire

as Jonah Evans
Released: 1950-04-27

Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over,...

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Never Say Goodbye

as Dr. Bailey
Released: 1956-03-10

In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his...

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The Big Street

as Professor B
Released: 1942-08-13

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and...

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Homecoming

as Lt. Col. Avery Silver
Released: 1948-04-29

Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out...

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I Want You

as Judge Kenneth Turner
Released: 1951-12-22

The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in...

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Commandos Strike at Dawn

as Johan Bergesen
Released: 1942-12-30

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village,...

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It Happens Every Spring

as Alfred Greenleaf
Released: 1949-06-10

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly...

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Summer Stock

as Jasper G. Wingait
Released: 1950-08-31

To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's...

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The Eve of St. Mark

as Deckman West
Released: 1944-05-22

Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out...

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The Solid Gold Cadillac

as Alfred Metcalfe
Released: 1956-08-22

Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects,...

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Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

as Mayor (voice)
Released: 1940-08-04

A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

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The Miracle on 34th Street

as Judge Harper
Released: 1955-12-14

One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting...

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The Hidden Eye

as Phillip Treadway
Released: 1945-08-31

A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused...

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Francis

as Colonel Hooker
Released: 1950-02-08

The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the...

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Crime Doctor

as Dr. John Carey
Released: 1943-06-22

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to ...

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You're in the Navy Now

as Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
Released: 1951-02-23

When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an...

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The Red Stallion

as Perry Barton
Released: 1947-08-16

Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises...

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The Reformer and the Redhead

as Commodore Parker
Released: 1950-05-05

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

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Invitation

as Warren Pritchard
Released: 1952-01-29

A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

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Badman's Territory

as Colonel Farewell / Narrator
Released: 1946-05-04

After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is...

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Night in Paradise

as Leonides
Released: 1946-05-03

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

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The Human Comedy

as Mr. Macauley
Released: 1943-03-02

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his...

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Paid in Full

as Dr. Fredericks
Released: 1950-02-15

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may...

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Texas Lady

as Mica Ralston (rancher)
Released: 1955-11-23

Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas,...

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Young Man with Ideas

as Edmund Jethrow
Released: 1952-05-02

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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The Navy Comes Through

as Capt. McCall
Released: 1942-10-30

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

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Two Years Before the Mast

as Gordon Stewart
Released: 1946-11-22

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is...

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Roughly Speaking

as John Chase Randall
Released: 1945-01-31

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite...

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Column South

as Storey
Released: 1953-05-20

In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their...

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The Desert Song

as Gen. Birabeau
Released: 1953-05-30

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them....

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The Kid from Left Field

as Fred F. Whacker
Released: 1953-07-01

Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game....

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Rose Marie

as Insp. Appleby
Released: 1954-03-03

Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her...

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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

as Jonathan Parker
Released: 1951-05-10

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and...

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The Senator Was Indiscreet

as Fred Houlihan
Released: 1947-12-31

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the...

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Slightly Dangerous

as Snodgrass
Released: 1943-04-01

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents...

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Up Goes Maisie

as Mr. Floyd Henderickson
Released: 1946-02-01

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

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Bad for Each Other

as Dan Reasonover
Released: 1953-12-24

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and...

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Barbary Coast Gent

as Johnny Adair
Released: 1944-09-01

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s...

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Reunion in Reno

as Judge Thomas Kneeland
Released: 1951-10-09

A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B...

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Dreamboat

as Timothy Stone
Released: 1952-07-26

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action...

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Hideout

as Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
Released: 1949-03-08

Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning...

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I'll Give My Life

as John Bradford
Released: 1960-02-03

This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just...

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For the Love of Mary

as Harvey Elwood
Released: 1948-09-01

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

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Spoilers of the Forest

as Eric Warren
Released: 1957-04-04

Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland...

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Main Street Today

as Otis Bird
Released: 1944-03-25

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional...

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Three Wise Fools

as Judge Watson
Released: 1946-09-26

An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

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Free For All

as A B Blair
Released: 1949-11-01

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young...

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Can't Help Singing

as Senator Frost
Released: 1944-12-25

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young...

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The Swordsman

as MacCoppin
Released: 1948-01-02

Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

as Jonathan Parker
Released: 1952-10-27

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy...

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Whistling in Brooklyn

as Grover Kendall
Released: 1943-12-01

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect...

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Viva la clase media

as uncredited
Released: 1980-01-04

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of...

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Highways by Night

as Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
Released: 1942-10-02

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and...

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The Go-Getter

as J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
Released: 1956-01-01

The Go-Getter (1956)

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Miss Susie Slagle's

as Dr. Elijah Howe
Released: 1946-03-04

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he...

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Boys' Ranch

as Davis Banton
Released: 1946-07-18

A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a...

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Red Stallion In The Rockies

as Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
Released: 1949-05-02

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

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Perry Mason

as Lieutenant Tragg
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Climax!

as Jerome Harris
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Evan Gracie
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Studio One

as Gen. Sam Woolery
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Callicott
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Judge Harper
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Herbert Brenner
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Cavalcade of America

as Daniel Webster
First aired: 1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company,...

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