Mala

Mala

Nacimiento : 1906-12-27, Alaska

Muerte : 1952-09-23

Historia

Ray Mala (born Ray Agnaqsiaq Wise) was an American actor. Born to a Native Alaskan Inupiaq mother and Russian Jewish immigrant father, he was one of Hollywood's foremost Native actors from the early 1920s until his death in 1952.

Perfil

Mala

Películas

Red Snow
Sgt. Koovuk
Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
Se acabó la gasolina
Nat
Cuando, tras una larga temporada lejos de Tahití, Chester Tuttle regresa a la isla, comprueba que todo sigue igual: su numerosa familia sigue viviendo despreocupadamente sin asumir ninguna responsabilidad. Cuando Jonas apuesta y pierde la plantación familiar en una pelea de gallos, Chester logra superar la situación reclamando el cargamento de un barco abandonado. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Girl from Alaska
Charley
A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Barab
A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
El hijo de la furia
Marnoa
Benjamin Blake, hijo ilegítimo de un noble, tendrá que vérselas con su autoritario tío Sir Arthur Blake para hacer valer sus derechos como heredero, lo que da lugar a una auténtica batalla legal. Mientras tanto, se enamora de su prima Isabel y de una indígena a la que llama Eva.
Honolulu Lu
Native Cop
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Si no amaneciera
Young Mexican Bridegroom (uncredited)
Georges Iscovescu (Charles Boyer), un seductor europeo que quiere residir en los Estados Unidos, decide casarse con una romántica e ingenua maestra norteamericana (Olivia de havilland) para conseguir el permiso de residencia.
The Devil's Pipeline
Talamu
A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.
Policía montada del Canadá
Indian
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Girl from God's Country
Joe
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
South of Pago Pago
Native Diver
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
Flash Gordon Conquista El Universo
Prince of the Rock People (uncredited)
Miniserie de TV. 12 episodios. En el planeta Mongo, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden y el Dr. Zarkov batallan contra la Plaga de la Muerte Púrpura, intentando reestablecer en el poder al príncipe Barin. Tercero y último serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond. Los dos previos eran "Flash Gordon" (1936) y "Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars" (1938).
Zanzibar
Mala
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Green Hell
Mala
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Coast Guard
Eskimo Driver (uncredited)
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Wani - Native Slave Leader
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
Unión Pacífico
Indian Finding Cigar Store Indian (uncredited)
En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).
Hawk of the Wilderness
Kias
An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.
S.O.S. Clipper Island
Feature version of the 1936 U.S. movie serial, ROBINSON CRUSOE OF CLIPPER ISLAND, for overseas release only.
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Little Elk
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
Call of The Yukon
Olee John
Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.
La princesa de la selva
Melan
Durante un safari en Malasia con su prometida, un tigre ataca a Powell y los guías nativos huyen, dándole por muerto. El tigre es la mascota de Ulah, una hermosa joven que creció en la selva. Se lo lleva a su cueva, le cura y se enamora de él. Cuando Powell vuelve a su campamento, ella le sigue. Su prometida se pone celosa, a los nativos no les gusta Ulah ni su tigre, y empiezan las complicaciones...
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Agent Ray Mala
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
Last of the Pagans
Taro
Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane.
Eskimo
Mala, aka Kripik (uncredited)
La feliz vida de un esquimal cambia desastrosamente cuando se conecta con un comerciante blanco sin escrúpulos.
Igloo
Assistant Camera
Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.
Igloo
The Young Hunter
Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.