Aldo Ray
Known for: Acting
Born: September 25, 1926
Died: March 27, 1991
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
82 movies · 23 TV shows, newest first
6.0
3-D Rarities
2015
4.2
Shock 'Em Dead
1991
3.7
Young Rebels
1989
4.8
Terror Night
1989
5.1
Night Shadow
1989
4.9
Blood Red
1989
4.4
Crime of Crimes
1989
4.0
The Shooters
1989
5.2
Drug Runners
1988
5.2
The Sicilian
1987
4.4
Hollywood Cop
1987
5.2
Hateman
1987
3.9
Star Slammer
1986
5.3
To Kill a Stranger
1986
4.6
Terror on Alcatraz
1986
3.7
Evils of the Night
1985
3.4
Biohazard
1985
4.8
Flesh and Bullets
1985NR
Frankenstein's Brain
1985
4.3
The Executioner Part II
1984
7.0
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984
3.0
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1984
4.5
Vultures
1983
5.3
Mongrel
1982
9.0
When I Am King
1982
7.4
The Secret of NIMH
1982
3.3
Dark Sanity
1982
5.5
Falcon Crest
1981
6.7
The Great Skycopter Rescue
1980
5.1
The Glove
1979
4.4
Human Experiments
1979
5.1
Sweet Savage
1979
3.1
Bog
1979
4.2
Don't Go Near the Park
1979
8.0
Women in White
1979NR
$weepstake$
1979
4.4
Death Dimension
1978
3.0
The Lucifer Complex
1978
6.8
CHiPs
1977
6.5
Haunted
1977
7.0
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977
5.0
Haunts
1976
4.4
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
6.4
The Quest
1976
NR
Paesano
1975
5.1
Psychic Killer
1975
6.7
Inside Out
1975
3.0
Gone with the West
1975
7.0
The Man Who Would Not Die
1975
10.0
Promise Him Anything
1975
7.1
S.W.A.T.
1975
6.2
Seven Alone
1974
5.4
The Centerfold Girls
1974
4.2
The Dynamite Brothers
1974
5.6
The Bad Bunch
1973
6.4
And Hope to Die
1972
6.3
The Houndcats
1972
4.8
Angel Unchained
1970
6.2
Love, American Style
1969
9.0
Deadlock
1969
6.5
Suicide Commando
1968
6.0
The Outsider
1968
5.7
The Green Berets
1968
6.3
The Power
1968
3.7
A Torn Page of Glory
1968
4.0
Kill a Dragon
1967
7.0
The Violent Ones
1967
5.3
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
5.1
Riot on Sunset Strip
1967
5.6
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
5.9
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
7.1
Run for Your Life
1965
3.0
Nightmare in the Sun
1965
6.3
Sylvia
1965
7.0
Daniel Boone
1964
6.5
Kraft Suspense Theatre
19635.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
6.3
Burke's Law
1963
6.5
The Virginian
1962
6.3
Musketeers of the Sea
1962
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
6.6
Johnny Nobody
1961
6.1
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960
6.5
Riverboat
1959
7.5
Bonanza
1959
6.3
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.7
Naked City
1958
6.2
God's Little Acre
1958
5.7
The Naked and the Dead
1958
6.6
Men in War
1957
6.9
Nightfall
1956
6.2
The Steve Allen Show
1956
7.0
Three Stripes in the Sun
19557.0
Hollywood Preview
1955
7.2
We're No Angels
1955
5.8
Battle Cry
1955
5.4
Miss Sadie Thompson
1953
4.2
Let's Do It Again
1953
6.4
Pat and Mike
1952
6.7
The Marrying Kind
1952
6.5
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
6.6
My True Story
1951
6.3
Saturday's Hero
1951
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948