Acting credits
79
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Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Wray
Acting
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Movies: 79Series: 0Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 2009
IMDb ID: nm0942046
Known for: Acting
Born: February 12, 1887
Died: April 5, 1940
Age: 53
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1929 - 1940
Years active: 12
Average TMDB rating: 6.83
Wikidata: Q912559
Also known as
John Griffith Malloy
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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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6.4
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Joe, the Farmer (uncredited)
1940 Movie
4.0
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
1940 Movie
5.3
The Man from Dakota
as Mr. Carpenter
1940 Movie
5.6
Swiss Family Robinson
as Ramsey
1940 Movie
9.0
Know Your Money
as Bowers the Printer
1940 Movie
7.3
Remember the Night
as Hank
1940 Movie
7.9
Gone with the Wind
as Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)
1939 Movie
5.8
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Stanley
1939 Movie
6.9
The Cat and the Canary
as Hendricks
1939 Movie
6.4
Blackmail
as Convict Diggs
1939 Movie
6.4
Golden Boy
as Chocolate Drop's Manager
1939 Movie
Smuggled Cargo
as Chris Hays
1939 Movie
6.8
Each Dawn I Die
as Pete Kassock
1939 Movie
6.0
Winter Carnival
as Poultry Truck Driver
1939 Movie
6.0
Almost a Gentleman
as 'Crack' Williams
1939 Movie
6.0
Risky Business
as Silas
1939 Movie
5.2
Pacific Liner
as Metcalfe
1939 Movie
6.5
A Man to Remember
as Tom Johnson
1938 Movie
Crime Takes a Holiday
as Howell
1938 Movie
6.8
Boys Town
as Weasel (uncredited)
1938 Movie
5.7
Spawn of the North
as Dr. Sparks
1938 Movie
5.0
Tenth Avenue Kid
as Joe Turner
1938 Movie
6.1
Professor Beware
as Head Lawyer
1938 Movie
4.9
Gangs of New York
as Maddock
1938 Movie