Aldo Ray
81 movies · 19 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 25, 1926
- Died
- Mar 27, 1991 (age 64)
- Place of birth
- Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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).
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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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Known for
Aldo Ray: movies and TV shows
Acting (100)
- 2015 3-D Rarities
as Sgt. Phil O'Hara (archive footage)
- 1991 Shock 'Em Dead
as Tony
- 1989 Young Rebels
as Sheriff
- 1989 Terror Night
as Captain Ned
- 1989 Night Shadow
as Gene Krebelski
- 1989 Blood Red
as Father Stassio
- 1989 Crime of Crimes
as Johnson
- 1989 The Shooters
as General Makepeace
- 1988 Drug Runners
as Victor Lazzaro
- 1987 The Sicilian
as Don Siano of Bisacquino
- 1987 Hollywood Cop
as Mr. Fong
- 1987 Hateman
as Sheriff Benny
- 1986 Star Slammer
as The Inquisitor
- 1986 To Kill a Stranger
as Inspector Benedict
- 1986 Terror on Alcatraz
as Frank Morris
- 1985 Evils of the Night
as Fred
- 1985 Biohazard
as General Randolph
- 1985 Flesh and Bullets
as Police Lieutenant
- 1985
- 1984 The Executioner Part II
as Police Commissioner
- 1984 Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
as Narrator
- 1984 Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
as Bürgermeister Niederhangen
- 1983 Vultures
as Wally
- 1982 Mongrel
as Bouchard
- 1982 When I Am King
as The Manager
- 1982 The Secret of NIMH
as Sullivan (voice)
- 1982 Dark Sanity
as Larry Craig
- 1981
- 1980 The Great Skycopter Rescue
as Sheriff Burgess
- 1979 The Glove
as Tiny
- 1979 Human Experiments
as Mat Tibbs
- 1979 Bog
as Sheriff Neal Rydholm
- 1979 Don't Go Near the Park
as Taft
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 Death Dimension
as Verde
- 1978 The Lucifer Complex
as Karl Krauss
- 1977
- 1977 Haunted
as Andrew
- 1977 Mission to Glory: A True Story
as Mine Boss
- 1976 Haunts
as Sheriff Peterson
- 1976 Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Stubby Stebbins
- 1976
- 1975 Paesano
as J. Arthur Cobra
- 1975 Psychic Killer
as Lt. Dave Anderson
- 1975 Inside Out
as M.Sgt. Prior
- 1975 Gone with the West
as Mimmo, Stage Robber
- 1975 The Man Who Would Not Die
as Frank Keefer
- 1975 Promise Him Anything
as Cop
- 1975
- 1974 Seven Alone
as Dr. Dutch
- 1974 The Centerfold Girls
as Ed Walker
- 1974 The Dynamite Brothers
as Burke
- 1973 The Bad Bunch
as Lt. Stans
- 1972 And Hope to Die
as Mattone
- 1972
- 1970 Angel Unchained
as Sheriff
- 1969
- 1969 Deadlock
as Edward Logan
- 1968 Suicide Commando
as Seargent Cloadec
- 1968
- 1968 The Green Berets
as Sgt. Muldoon
- 1968 The Power
as Bruce
- 1968 A Torn Page of Glory
as Major Comack
- 1967 Kill a Dragon
as Vigo
- 1967 The Violent Ones
as Joe Vorzyck
- 1967 Welcome to Hard Times
as Man from Bodie
- 1967 Riot on Sunset Strip
as Lieutenant Walt Lorimer
- 1966 Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Eddie Hart
- 1966 What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as Sergeant Rizzo
- 1965
- 1965 Nightmare in the Sun
as Sheriff
- 1965 Sylvia
as Jonas Karoki
- 1964
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962
- 1962 Musketeers of the Sea
as Moreau
- 1961
- 1961 Johnny Nobody
as Mark Wheeler (aka Johnny Nobody)
- 1960 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
as Charles Norgate
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The Siege of Pinchgut
as Matt Kirk
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 God's Little Acre
as Bill Thompson
- 1958 The Naked and the Dead
as Sam Croft
- 1957 Men in War
as Sgt. Montana
- 1956 Nightfall
as James Vanning / Art Rayburn
- 1955 Three Stripes in the Sun
as Hugh O'Reilly
- 1955 We're No Angels
as Albert
- 1955 Battle Cry
as Andy Hookens
- 1953 Miss Sadie Thompson
as Sgt. Phil O'Hara
- 1953 Let's Do It Again
as Frank McGraw
- 1952 Pat and Mike
as Davie Hucko
- 1952 The Marrying Kind
as 'Chet' Keefer
- 1951 The Barefoot Mailman
as Theron Henchman (uncredited)
- 1951 My True Story
as Mark Foster
- 1951 Saturday's Hero
as Gene Hausler (as Aldo DaRe)
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1956 The Steve Allen Show
1 episode
- 1955 Hollywood Preview
1 episode
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode