Albert Ray

Birth : 1897-08-28,

Death : 1944-02-05

Movies

The Cheaters
Original Story
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Cadet
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
The Girl from Avenue A
Additional Writing
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
Desperate Trails
Director
A young boy helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
Winner Take All
Screenplay
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
Everybody's Baby
Writer
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
The Arizona Wildcat
Story
In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
While New York Sleeps
Screenplay
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Keep Smiling
Writer
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
Change of Heart
Screenplay
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
45 Fathers
Writer
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Lawless Land
Director
Jeff arrives in town to see the Sheriff only to find him just killed. The culprit is Clay Wheeler. When Jeff becomes friendly with Letty, Clay sends his man Ortega to kill him. Jeff foils the attempt and gets him to confess that Clay was the killer. With only old-timers Lafe and Bill to help, Jeff heads after Clay and his gang.
Dizzy Doctors
Screenplay
The stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Undercover Man
Director
An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures Corp.
Everyman's Law
Director
Texas Ranger Johnny (Johnny Mack Brown), poses as a hired gunman called The Dog Town Kid in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang, to uncover a plot by a crooked lawman, Sheriff Bradley (Horace Murphy), and a large landholder, Jim Morgan (Lloyd Ingraham) against the smaller ranches and the homesteaders.
Stage Frights
Director
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
It's the Cats
Director
Andy prepares to give a speech to an organization of cat lovers.
St. Louis Woman
Director
Johnny Mack Brown stars as medical student and football star who was expelled after a night club brawl over a woman. He meets her again only to find out she owns the club and is involved with a gambler...
Dancing Man
Writer
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
Dancing Man
Director
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
A Shriek in the Night
Director
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Director
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
The Intruder
Director
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
West of Singapore
Director
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
Guilty or Not Guilty
Director
Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.
The Thirteenth Guest
Director
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
Unholy Love
Producer
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
Unholy Love
Director
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
Summer Daze
Director
Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Catskills, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.
Harem Scarem
Director
A Albert Ray directed comedy short starring Al St. John & Aileen Cook where Al tries to fix his inferiority complex by visiting a fortune teller.
A Put Up Job
Director
Once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.
Moving In
Director
A group of Joe Penner's relatives get together to fix up a house for a pair of newlyweds. Coordination and planning is not the order of the day, so they eventually end up completely wrecking the house.
We! We! Marie!
Director
In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly hate.Both have fallen for the same girl, and Slim seemingly can't compete when Gribbon gives her fancy lingerie. Gribbon has no problem belting Slim around, and giving him extended latrine-digging duties.
Rolling Along
Director
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
Kathleen Mavourneen
Director
Kathleen O'Connor, fresh off the boat from Ireland, must decide between the two men who love her - a poor plumber and a wealthy politician.
Call of the West
Director
Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and are married. Feeling deserted when Lon joins a posse in search of rustlers, she returns to New York. There, she is wooed by her agent, Maurice Kane, but confirms her love for Lon when he comes to claim her.
My Lady's Past
Director
The BFI holds a complete copy.
Molly and Me
Director
None But the Brave
Director
College hero Charles Stanton fails miserably as an insurance agent; so he becomes a lifeguard, saves an injured swimmer and is rewarded for his valor.
Whispering Wires
Director
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
More Pay - Less Work
Director
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
Fun's Fun
Director
Dog and kid comedy. With Cliff Bowes and Virginia Vance.
Rock Bottom
Director
An employee is harassed by his co-workers. Later, they ambush him and try to steal the company's money.
Ship Shape
Director
A slapstick comedy starring Cliff Bowes & Virginia Vance.
Welcome Danger!
Director
Cliff Bowes and Eddie Nelson in a Cameo comedy produced by Educational.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Writer
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
The Girl I Loved
Writer
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
A Tailor-Made Man
Adaptation
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
The Night Riders
John Tresler
A band of Klan-like night riders have been running rampant, and ranch owner Julian Marbolt (Andre Beaulieu) -- who is afflicted with day blindness and can only see in the evening -- offers a reward for the leader's capture.
The Game's Up
Peter Neyland (as Al Ray)
Struggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she has gained fame in the West as an artist. When Mildred stops to visit on her way to Honolulu, Ruth hires Peter Neyland to pose as her chauffeur for five hours. Peter is actually a wealthy young man who accepts the offer as a lark.
Wet and Warmer
Billy Poste
Silent comedy featuring the Chaplin-esque Heinie Conklin. The ill-fated Virginia Rappe appears as a hotel guest.