Ray Collins
Birthday: 1889-12-10
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, USA
Biography: 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
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...
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Touch of Evil
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement ag...
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The Price of Freedom
The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control graduall...
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The Fountainhead
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite...
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The Racket
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanl...
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Crack-Up
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th...
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartme...
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The Heiress
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...
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A Double Life
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin...
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The Man from Colorado
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of the...
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Vengeance Valley
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As th...
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Summer Stock
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's siste...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Pre...
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The Reformer and the Redhead
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper....
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Paid in Full
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have ...
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Badman's Territory
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a...
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Leave Her to Heaven
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy i...
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The Human Comedy
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family ...
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The Desperate Hours
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage....
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy rac...
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Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm...
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You're in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experim...
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Hideout
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realiza...
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Bad for Each Other
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping t...
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Whistling in Brooklyn
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himsel...
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Crime Doctor
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to bec...
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a l...
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The Hidden Eye
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of mu...
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Salute to the Marines
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese inva...
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See Here, Private Hargrove
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his t...
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Homecoming
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a...
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The Big Street
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses...
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes...
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Highways by Night
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobs...
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Good Sam
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them ou...
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The Miracle on 34th Street
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers g...
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Words & Music
Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wa...
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Young Man with Ideas
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children....
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Roughly Speaking
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerou...
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Night in Paradise
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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Column South
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause ...
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Texas Lady
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to ...
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Never Say Goodbye
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born...
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Rose Marie
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, M...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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Up Goes Maisie
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas....
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Boys' Ranch
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublema...
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The Desert Song
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing ...
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I Want You
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea h...
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The Eve of St. Mark
Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first...
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Two Years Before the Mast
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaie...
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The Red Stallion
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a...
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Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
Jamaica, famous for its decelerated lifestyle and home of the Reggae music, is also the birthplace o...
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For the Love of Mary
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics....
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Miss Susie Slagle's
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he cont...
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Barbary Coast Gent
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and ...
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're d...
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It Happens Every Spring
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets ou...
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Dreamboat
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action her...
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Command Decision
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing ne...
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Spoilers of the Forest
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with...
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Francis
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatri...
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Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town....
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom'...
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Kill the Umpire
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctant...
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Free For All
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young invent...
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One Way Out
A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one...
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The Kid from Left Field
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But h...
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Reunion in Reno
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy w...
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Main Street Today
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional smal...
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Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...
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Athena
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthus...
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I'll Give My Life
This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earne...
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The Seventh Cross
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven...
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Viva la clase media
Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain,...
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The Hitler Gang
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
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The Return of Monte Cristo
The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape ...
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire...
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