Ray Danton

Ray Danton

Birth : 1931-09-19, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1992-02-11

History

Ray Danton (born Raymond Caplan; September 19, 1931 – February 11, 1992), also known as Raymond Danton, was a radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most famous roles were in the screen biographies The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) and The George Raft Story (1962).

Profile

Ray Danton

Movies

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Director
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
Dead on Target
Derek Flint
Dead on Target is the third and final film in the Our Man Flint movie trilogy. The film originally aired on ABC on March 17, 1976. The TV movie was also a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and Dead On Target became the last Derek Flint movie.
Six Pack Annie
Mr. O'Meyer (as Raymond Danton)
A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.
Psychic Killer
Writer
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
Psychic Killer
Director
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.
Apache Blood
Yellow Shirt
After a massacre of an Indian village by the U.S army, a survivor, Yellow shirt (Ray Danton) goes after them for revenge. His journey becomes a deadly adventure. His life will be threatened by the hostility of the desert, snakes, hallucinations and of course his encounter with his enemies…
The Centerfold Girls
Perry
Police try to halt a psychotic killer's (Andrew Prine) rampage against women who posed nude in men's magazines.
Runaway!
Prof. Jack Dunn
A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
Hannah, Queen of the Vampires
Director
Two archaeologists on a scientific dig come across a vampire burial ground and discover that the creatures are about to awaken and attack a nearby village.
Deathmaster
Director
Quarry is a mysterious stranger with cult like following of hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them as he is a vampire.
A Very Missing Person
Capt. Westering
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
The Ballad of Billie Blue
An emotionally touching story of a man who's life was in seeming disrepair, yet God turned it into one of redemption and atonement.
Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo?
Jimmy Logan
Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of the thieves is located in a mental hospital and sets about infiltrating their ranks.
Banyon
Victor Pappas
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon's new client, a young woman, is found dead in his office...shot with his own gun.
The Last Mercenary
Mark / Marco Anderson
After the war in Congo, two mercenaries take a mission to safeguard uranium transportation in a South American jungle, fighting bandits and local miners.
Llaman de Jamaica, Mr. Ward
Glen Ward
Lucky, the Inscrutable
Lucky
An American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. His investigation takes him from Rome to Albania, where he gets involved with a sexy Albanian police commissioner.
Si muore solo una volta
Mike Gold
Mike Gold is trying to nail a terrorist spy ring who he believes killed his partner. His investigation takes him to Beirut where he is ensnared by a faux-damsel in distress called Jane.
Secret Agent Super Dragon
Bryan Cooper / Superdragon
A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot to imperil the world with a potent new drug.
Code Name: Jaguar
Jeff Larson
CIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in southern Spain. He discovers the base is being heavily monitored by the KGB via hidden cameras and moles within the base, and he must find a way to ferret the traitors out whilst avoiding discovery of his investigation.
Return of Sandokan
Sandokan
Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan, lord of Malaya. Assisted by his European friend Iannis, he wants to rescue her.
Sandokan Fights Back
Sandokan
When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets of to claim his land back.
FBI Code 98
Fred Vitale
A bomb is discovered in the luggage of a businessman traveling aboard a plane.
The Chapman Report
Fred Linden
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Longest Day
Capt. Frank
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
A Majority of One
Jerome Black
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
The George Raft Story
George Raft
The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
Portrait of a Mobster
'Legs' Diamond
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
A Fever in the Blood
Clem Marker
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Jack 'Legs' Diamond
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
Ice Palace
Bay Husack
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
Yellowstone Kelly
Sayapi, Gall's Nephew
A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her.
The Big Operator
Oscar Wetzel
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Jay North, Vampira, Charles Chaplin Jr., Jackie Coogan and Norman Grabowski.
The Beat Generation
Stanley Belmont
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
Tarawa Beachhead
Lt. Joel Brady
A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama.
Onionhead
Ensign Dennis Higgins
Follow-up to Andy Griffith's big hit in "No Time for Sergeants" moves the action to the Coast Guard and WW II.
Too Much, Too Soon
John Howard
The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
The Night Runner
Roy Turner
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Outside the Law
John Conrad, alias Johnny Salvo
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
I'll Cry Tomorrow
David Tredman
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
The Spoilers
Blackie
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
The Looters
Pete Corder
A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors--and also find $250,000 in cash among the debris.
Chief Crazy Horse
Little Big Man
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.