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