John Wray

John Wray

Nacimiento : 1887-02-13, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1940-04-05

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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Wray(actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Películas

El doctor se casa
Joe - Farmer
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
The Man from Dakota
Mr. Carpenter
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
La familia Robinson suiza
Ramsey
Cuando una tormenta los hace naufragar, la familia Robinson debe unirse para crear un hogar en una isla desierta. Pero el reto definitivo se presenta cuando un grupo de piratas despiadados amenaza con destruir su paraíso improvisado.
Know Your Money
Bowers the Printer
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
Recuerdo de una noche
Hank
Justo antes de Navidad, la joven Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) es arrestada por el robo de una joya y es procesada por el fiscal John Sargent (Fred McMurray) pero el juicio se pospone hasta después de Navidad. Sargent acaba sintiendo pena por ella y decide llevarsela con él a casa de su madre. Después de pasar unos dias juntos, ámbos se enamoran, pero les surge un nuevo problema, como solventar el asunto de la justicia.
Lo que el viento se llevó
Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)
Georgia, 1861. En la elegante mansión sureña de Tara, vive Scarlett O'Hara, la joven más bella, caprichosa y egoísta de la región. Ella suspira por el amor de Ashley, pero él está prometido con su prima, la dulce y bondadosa Melanie. Corren todavía tiempos felices en Tara, pero por poco tiempo, porque la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) está a punto de estallar. En la última fiesta, celebrada antes del comienzo de las hostilidades entre el norte y el sur, Scarlett conoce al simpático, cínico y apuesto Rhett Butler, un vividor arrogante y aventurero, que sólo piensa en sí mismo y que no tiene ninguna intención de participar en el conflicto. Lo que él desea es hacerse rico y conquistar el corazón de la hermosa Scarlett.
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Stanley
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
El gato y el canario
Hendricks
Veinte años después de la muerte de un excéntrico multimillonario su familia es llamada para la lectura de su testamento. De hecho, se trata de una grabación hecha de él mismo realizada antes de su muerte, donde nombra como su heredera a su familiar más lejano. La única condición impuesta es que mantenga la mente sana, pero por la noche la aparición de fantasmas hará que todos empiecen a dudar de su cordura.
Blackmail
Convict Diggs
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Sueño dorado
Chocolate Drop's Manager
Un joven con vocación de violinista entra en el mundo del boxeo para conseguir algo de dinero, y sin darse cuenta, empieza a alejarse de su verdadero sueño. El padre intenta recordarle que su pasión es la música, pero al hijo no le resulta fácil reemprender ese camino.
Smuggled Cargo
Chris Hays
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Winter Carnival
Poultry Truck Driver
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
Muero cada amanecer
Pete Kassock
Aunque inocente, el reportero Frank Ross es declarado culpable de asesinato y es enviado a la cárcel. Mientras sus amigos del periódico tratan de averiguar quien lo engañó, Frank se va endureciendo por la vida en prisión y su optimismo se convierte en amargura.
Almost a Gentleman
'Crack' Williams
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Risky Business
Silas
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Pacific Liner
Metcalfe
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
A Man to Remember
Tom Johnson
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Crime Takes a Holiday
Howell
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
Forja de hombres
Weasel (uncredited)
Conmovido al escuchar la historia de un convicto que inició su carrera delictiva siendo un niño al que nadie dio una oportunidad, el padre Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) dedice construir la Ciudad de los Muchachos, un lugar donde los jóvenes conflictivos puedan convivir, trabajar y labrarse un futuro honrado. Allí acude a la fuerza Withey Marsh (Mickey Rooney), un joven rebelde que parece un caso perdido y que está decidido a seguir los pasos de su hermano Joe (Edward Norris), líder de una banda de delincuentes.
Lobos del norte
Dr. Sparks
Tyler (George Raft) y Jim (Henry Fonda), dos amigos de la infancia que viven en Alaska, tienen dos visiones contrapuestas de la vida: Tyler es ambicioso y está dispuesto a conseguir dinero por cualquier medio; en cambio, Jim es un tipo honesto que se conforma con ser pescador de atunes. Tyler llega incluso a aliarse con unos piratas rusos para robarle a Jim la mercancía pescada. Costosa producción de la Paramount que se vio recompensada con un Oscar Especial a la fotografía.
Tenth Avenue Kid
Joe Turner
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Professor Beware
Head Lawyer
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Gangs of New York
Maddock
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
Making the Headlines
Herbert Sandford
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
What Price Safety!
J. Z. Wray
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
The Black Doll
Walling
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
The Women Men Marry
Brother Nameless
A newsman (George Murphy) with a no-good wife (Claire Dodd) exposes a religious racket with a newswoman (Josephine Hutchinson) who loves him.
The Devil Is Driving
Joe Peters
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.
Circus Girl
Roebling
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Outcast
Hank Simmerson
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
Sólo se vive una vez
Warden Wheeler
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
We Who Are About to Die
Jerry Daley
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
A Man Betrayed
Sparks
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
George Darnley
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
The President's Mystery
Shane
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
El demonio es un pobre diablo
Priest
Claude Pierce, un niño inglés muy educado que vive en el sur de Manhattan, intenta ganarse la aceptación ante sus compañeros no tan bien educados, en la escuela.
Sworn Enemy
Lang, a Gangster
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
La pobre niña rica
Flagin
La hija de un acaudalado hombre de negocios se pierde en la estación y es acogida por una pareja de artistas de variedades fracasados, que ven en ella la solución a su mala racha.
El secreto de vivir
Farmer
Un ingenuo joven de provincias (Gary Cooper) va a Nueva York para hacerse cargo de una herencia de veinte millones de dólares. Allí se enamora de una chica encantadora (Jean Arthur), sin saber que es la periodista que lo ridiculiza en sus artículos.
Ladies Love Danger
Fox comedy about an adventurous young woman
Frisco Kid
The Weasel
En plena fiebre del oro en San Francisco, un hombre llamado Bat Morgan acaba con la vida de un criminal que atemorizaba a toda la región. Gracias a su acción comienza a ganar importantes cuotas de poder dentro, aunque lo que verdaderamente le interesa es el amor por la joven Jean.
Bad Boy
Fred Larkin
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
Atlantic Adventure
Mitts Coster
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Stranded
Mike Gibbons
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Men Without Names
Sam Hammond
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
The Great Hotel Murder
Feets Moore
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
I Am a Thief
Antonio Poricci
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
I'll Fix It
Fletcher
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
El capitán odia el mar
Mr. Jeddock
El periodista alcóhólico Steve Bramley se marcha en un crucero de placer para descansar, con la esperanza de dejar de beber y escribir un libro. A bordo también viajan Schulte, un amigo de Steve, detective privado que espera atrapar a un criminal que lleva una fortuna en bonos robados. Steve empieza a beber y a observar a los viajeros, algunos de los cuales no son lo que aparentan...
Embarrassing Moments
Slug
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Fifteen Wives
Jason Getty
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
The Defense Rests
Michael Cooney
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Most Precious Thing in Life
Carter
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
Green Eyes
Inspector Crofton
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
The Crosby Case
Willie McGuire
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
Bombay Mail
Giovanni Martini
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
The Big Shakedown
Higgins
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Un hombrecito valiente
Bill O'Neal
Adaptación de la novela de Will James, publicada tres años antes, sobre la relación que se establece entre un pistolero y un niño a lo largo de un viaje.
After Tonight
Mitika, the Gypsy Contact
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
The Match King
Foreman of Janitors
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Central Park
Robert Smiley
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
El beso de la muerte
Detective Lieut. Sheehan
Mientras interpreta la escena final de "El beso de la muerte", el protagonista muere asesinado. Los sospechosos son muchos, pues ha flirteado, actuado o contraido matrimonio con casi todas las mujeres del estudio. Cuando la protagonista es detenida, un guionista del estudio empieza a investigar el asesinato para demostrar su inocencia. (FILMAFFINIT)
Soy un fugitivo
Nordine (uncredited)
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
Doctor X
Dr. Haines
Seis personas han sido asesinadas en la calle Mott muy cerca de la Morgue donde funciona la peculiar academia de medicina del Doctor Xavier. Todos los crímenes han sido cometidos, en noches de luna llena, por una suerte de caníbal que asesina con un bisturí y luego desolla a sus víctimas. Con la venia de la policía, el doctor Xavier procurará averiguar si el asesino está entre sus colaboradores, mientras un periodista husmea cuanto puede y trata de enamorar a la hija del científico.
Miss Pinkerton
Hugo
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
The Rich Are Always with Us
Clark Davis
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
The Miracle Man
The Frog
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
The Mouthpiece
Mr. Barton
Tras la ejecución de un inocente, un joven fiscal deja su cargo y se hace abogado defensor. Se hace rico y poderoso defendiendo mafiosos, pero pronto verá el error de esta decisión.
High Pressure
Jimmy Moore
Gar Evans (William Powell) acepta desarrollar el producto de Ginsburg, una goma artificial creada a partir de aguas fecales, sólo después de que su amigo Mike Donahey (Frank McHugh) le asegura que no es un fraude. Gar es supersticioso; cree que sólo tendrá éxito si su sufrida novia Francine Dale (Evelyn Brent) se une a la empresa. Ella, sin embargo, se ha cansado de él, especialmente tras haberla dejado cinco días atrás para recoger sal de bromo y no regresar.
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Cmdr. Brambourg
Un capitán de barco se pierde en aguas peligrosas cuando descubre que su mujer le engaña.
A salvo en el Infierno
Eagan
Para evitar los rigores de la ley, Gilda huye de Nueva Orleans y se esconde en una isla caribeña donde los peores criminales pueden pedir asilo. Asediada por indeseables, Gilda descubrirá pronto que ha encontrado refugio en el mismísimo Infierno.
Silence
Harry Silvers
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Quick Millions
Additional Dialogue
El conductor de camiones Bugs Raymond organiza a las asociaciones de camioneros y se hace con dinero a cambio de protección. Una vez enriquecido, decide casarse con la dama de la alta sociedad Dorothy Stone. Ella le rechaza, en favor de otro hombre, así que él planea secuestrarla el día de su boda.
Quick Millions
Kenneth Stone
El conductor de camiones Bugs Raymond organiza a las asociaciones de camioneros y se hace con dinero a cambio de protección. Una vez enriquecido, decide casarse con la dama de la alta sociedad Dorothy Stone. Ella le rechaza, en favor de otro hombre, así que él planea secuestrarla el día de su boda.
The Czar of Broadway
Morton Bradstreet
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
Sin novedad en el frente
Himmelstoss
Mítica película antibélica que plasma los sentimientos, sensaciones y desilusiones de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes que son enviados al frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Es una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor alemán Erich María Remarque. Su estreno provocó enfrentamientos entre nazis y comunistas.
Noches de Nueva York
Joe Prividi
Jill Deverne es una corista que se casó con Fred, quien es compositor pero sufre de alcoholismo. Ella quiere mostrar las últimas canciones de Fred, dentro de un año al mafioso Joe Prividi. Prividi es el productor del espectáculo musical que está trabajando y se compromete a utilizar su canción. Fred, sin embargo, se niega y rechaza la oferta de Prividi. Cuando Prividi utiliza la canción sin permiso, Fred y su amigo Johnny Dolan se emborrachan y se muestran en el club nocturno.