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Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-02-12 (138 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

John Wray

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

John Wray (13 February 1887 - 5 April 1940) was an American character actor of stage and screen.

Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly made an indelible impression on the era in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in The Czar of Broadway (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of The Miracle Man (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. During this period he was one of the many actors mentioned for the title role in Dracula (1931).

Wray's roles grew increasingly smaller as the decade progressed but he was very visible as the starving farmer threatening to kill Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and as the warden in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937).

Other films include Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Frisco Kid (1935), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Boys Town (1938), Each Dawn I Die (1939), The Cat and the Canary (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939).

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Known For

Acting

1940

The Man from Dakota as Mr. Carpenter
The Doctor Takes a Wife as Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)
Know Your Money as Bowers the Printer
Outside the Three-Mile Limit as Ship's Captain (uncredited)

1939

Each Dawn I Die as Pete Kassock
Blackmail as Convict Diggs
Almost a Gentleman as 'Crack' Williams
Pacific Liner as Metcalfe
Gone with the Wind as Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)
Golden Boy as Chocolate Drop's Manager
Smuggled Cargo as Chris Hays
Winter Carnival as Poultry Truck Driver

1938

Spawn of the North as Dr. Sparks
Tenth Avenue Kid as Joe Turner
What Price Safety! as J. Z. Wray
A Man to Remember as Tom Johnson
The Black Doll as Walling
Professor Beware as Head Lawyer
Making the Headlines as Herbert Sandford
Boys Town as Weasel (uncredited)

1937

You Only Live Once as Warden Wheeler
Circus Girl as Roebling
The Devil Is Driving as Joe Peters
On Such a Night as Guard Rumann
The Women Men Marry as Brother Nameless
Outcast as Hank Simmerson

1936

A Man Betrayed as Sparks
Sworn Enemy as Lang, a Gangster
A Son Comes Home as Gas Station Owner

1935

Frisco Kid as The Weasel
Atlantic Adventure as Mitts Coster
Bad Boy as Fred Larkin
Men Without Names as Sam Hammond
Stranded as Mike Gibbons
The Great Hotel Murder as Feets Moore

1934

Green Eyes as Inspector Crofton
The Defense Rests as Michael Cooney
I Am a Thief as Antonio Poricci
Fifteen Wives as Jason Getty
Bombay Mail as Giovanni Martini
The Crosby Case as Willie McGuire
I'll Fix It as Fletcher

1933

Lone Cowboy as Bill O'Neal
After Tonight as Mitika, the Gypsy Contact

1932

Doctor X as Dr. Haines
High Pressure as Jimmy Moore
The Mouthpiece as Mr. Barton
The Match King as Foreman of Janitors
Central Park as Robert Smiley
The Woman from Monte Carlo as Cmdr. Brambourg
The Miracle Man as The Frog
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as Nordine (uncredited)
The Death Kiss as Detective Lieut. Sheehan

1931

Safe in Hell as Eagan
Quick Millions as Kenneth Stone
Silence as Harry Silvers

1930

The Czar of Broadway as Morton Bradstreet

1929

New York Nights as Joe Prividi

Crew

1931

Quick Millions as Additional Dialogue