
Aldo Ray
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.
104 acting credits
Acting · 104

Falcon Crest
1981

Love, American Style
1969

The Virginian
1962

Naked City
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Ben Casey
1961

Daniel Boone
1964

Burke's Law
1963

Run for Your Life
1965

CHiPs
1977

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958

Riverboat
1959

The Outsider
1968

S.W.A.T.
1975
$weepstake$
1979

Young Rebels
1989

The Secret of NIMH
1982

The Quest
1976

The Green Berets
1968
Hollywood Preview
1955

The Sicilian
1987

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966

Women in White
1979

Battle Cry
1955

We're No Angels
1955

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976

The Naked and the Dead
1958

Pat and Mike
1952

And Hope to Die
1972

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966

Evils of the Night
1985

The Dynamite Brothers
1974

The Power
1968

Human Experiments
1979

God's Little Acre
1958

Sylvia
1965

Nightfall
1956

Death Dimension
1978

Men in War
1957

Blood Red
1989

The Houndcats
1972

The Glove
1979

Nightmare in the Sun
1965

Psychic Killer
1975

Shock 'Em Dead
1991

Miss Sadie Thompson
1953

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960

Star Slammer
1986

The Marrying Kind
1952

3-D Rarities
2015

Terror Night
1989

The Centerfold Girls
1974

Inside Out
1975

Gone with the West
1975

The Barefoot Mailman
1951

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1984

Saturday's Hero
1951

Seven Alone
1974

Biohazard
1985

My True Story
1951

Welcome to Hard Times
1967

Bog
1979

Vultures
1983

Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977

Don't Go Near the Park
1981

Musketeers of the Sea
1962

The Siege of Pinchgut
1959

Deadlock
1969

Riot on Sunset Strip
1967

Johnny Nobody
1961

Let's Do It Again
1953

Angel Unchained
1970

The Executioner Part II
1984

Kill a Dragon
1967

Three Stripes in the Sun
1955

Mongrel
1982

Haunts
1976

Hollywood Cop
1987

Promise Him Anything
1975

The Lucifer Complex
1978

The Shooters
1989

The Great Skycopter Rescue
1980

Flesh and Bullets
1985

Suicide Commando
1968

To Kill a Stranger
1986

Crime of Crimes
1989

The Violent Ones
1967

The Man Who Would Not Die
1975

Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984

Night Shadow
1989

Hateman
1987
Frankenstein's Brain
1985

Haunted
1977

The Bad Bunch
1973

Paesano
1975

Drug Runners
1988

Dark Sanity
1982

When I Am King
1982

Terror on Alcatraz
1986

A Torn Page of Glory
1968

Sweet Savage
1979