Roger Gray

출생 : 1881-05-26, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

사망 : 1959-01-20

약력

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Gray (May 26, 1881 – January 20, 1959) was an American character who was active in the early years of the talking picture era. Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1881, he began acting later in life, his first role being featured part in 1930's Hit the Deck. Over his 14-year career he would have small or featured roles in over 75 films, including such classics as The Merry Widow (1934), Les Misérables (1935), Captains Courageous (1937), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939), and 1940's Road to Singapore. His final appearance would be in a small role in the 1943 film Redhead from Manhattan. Married and divorced twice, he died in a Los Angeles hospital, and his body was cremated in the crematorium of Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever Cemetery).

참여 작품

가스등
Stranger (uncredited)
세계적인 오페라 가수인 앨리스 엘퀴스트가 자신의 집에서 살해되지만 경찰은 범인을 잡는데 실패한다. 이후 이 집을 물려받은 유일한 상속녀인 조카 폴라는 이탈리아로 성악 수업을 받기 위해 보내진다. 그러나 폴라는 성악 선생님 집에서 반주를 맡고 있던 젊고 잘 생긴 청년 그레고리와 사랑에 빠져서 중도에 공부를 포기하고 만다. 그레고리와 결혼한 폴라는 10년 만에 런던으로 돌아와 앨리스에게 물려받은 집에서 신혼 생활을 시작한다. 그러나 막상 앨리스의 집으로 들어오고 나자 그레고리는 갖가지 구실을 붙여서 폴라의 외출을 막는 한편 그녀를 정신이상자로 몰고 가기 시작하는데...
Redhead from Manhattan
Fisherman
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Pardon My Gun
Sheriff
In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the bushes without opening it. Later a woman happens upon the cash and finds herself a prime suspect in the killing. Fortunately, a survey engineer proves her innocence, and they begin looking for the real villains.
The Incredible Stranger
Wagon Driver Mack Williams (uncredited)
In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep a promise.
The Man Who Returned to Life
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
The Pinto Kid
Dan Foster
Pinto Kid was one of Charles Starrett's last "formula" westerns before he permanently assumed the screen guise of the Durango Kid. The story takes places just after the Civil War, with hostilities between Yanks and Rebels still in effect between Kansas and Texas. The villain, cattle rustler Vic Landreau (Paul Sutton), intends to play both factions down the middle for his own benefit. But Landreau meets his match in the form of wandering do-gooder Jud Calvert (Charles Starrett).
Angels Over Broadway
Gambler (uncredited)
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
위대한 서부인
Eph Stringer - Homesteader (uncredited)
미국의 시민 전쟁이 끝나자, 사람들은 자유로운 땅이 보장되어 있는 서부 텍사스 지역으로 몰린다. 텍사스의 페코스 마을에 정착한 로이 빈(Judge Roy Bean: 월터 브레넌 분)은 스스로를 판사라 부르면서 마을을 통치한다. 실제로는 소몰이꾼인 로이 빈은 멋대로 법을 시행하고 죄없는 시민들을 재판하여 마구 사형시킨다. 어느 날 이 마을에 소를 훔쳤다는 죄목으로 콜(Cole Hardin: 게리 쿠퍼 역)이라는 사람이 붙잡혀온다. 재판을 받은 콜은 사형에 처할 위기에 빠진다. 하지만 그는 로이 빈이 릴리 랭트리(Lily Langtry: 릴리언 본드 분)란 여배우를 병적으로 좋아한다는 사실을 눈치채고, 자신이 랭트리를 만난 적이 있으며 그녀의 머리카락을 갖고 있다고 거짓말을 하여 위기를 모면하고...
The Durango Kid
Henchman Jergens (uncredited)
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
Out West with the Peppers
Tom
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Buck Benny Rides Again
Ranch Foreman
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Air Pump Operator
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
싱가폴 가는 길
Cherry's Father (uncredited)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Cemetery Gateman (uncredited)
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Barefoot Boy
Dutch
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
Professor Beware
Brawler - Hand Gag
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.
You and Me
Bath House
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Double Wedding
Mike, Policeman at Jail (uncredited)
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Wild and Woolly
Engineer (uncredited)
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
굿바이 마이 라이프
Nate Rogers (uncredited)
한 소년이 뱃사람들과 바다에서 생활하는 경험을 통해서 우정의 소중함과 노동의 중요성을 알아가면서 성숙하는 과정을 그린 모험영화.
Mountain Justice
Pipe-Smokerat Carnival
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
역사는 밤에 이루어진다
미국인 부호 브루스 베일과 결혼한 아이린은 남편의 의처증을 견디다못해 이혼을 결심한다. 브루스가 자신의 새 선박인 '프린세스 아이린'의 처녀 항해를 앞두고 흥분하고 있는 사이 아이린은 이혼 수속을 밟아가고, 이에 광분한 브루스는 운전수를 매수해 파리의 한 호텔에서 아이린의 외도를 꾸미려 한다. 하지만 그런 브루스의 계획은 폴 듀망드라는 프랑스인의 도움으로 수포로 돌아가고 아이러니컬하게도 브르스의 계획으로 인해 만난 아이린과 폴은 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그러나 브루스의 기행은 여기서 멈추지 않고 폴을 살인범으로 몰아 아이린으로 하여금 폴을 보호하기 위해서 어쩔 수 없이 자신과 미국으로 되돌아가게 만든다. 이때부터 영화는 아이린을 찾아 미국으로 떠나는 폴과 남편에게서 도망친 아이린, 그리고 남편 브루스의 끈질긴 추적을 보여주는데 이 과정에서 아이린을 찾기 위해 미국에 정착하는 폴의 모습이 로맨틱하다. 결국 두 연인은 재결합하고 사랑을 재확인한다. 아이린은 폴의 살인혐의를 피하기 위해 타히티로 도피하자고 하지만 결국 두 사람은 파리행 '프린세스 아이린'을 타고 정의의 심판을 받기로 한다. 한편 브루스 베일은 두 사람의 '프린세스 아이린' 승선 사실을 알게 되고 두 사람을 빨리 만나기 위해 '프린세스 아이린'의 선장에게 무리한 명령을 내린다. 급기야 프린세스 아이린은 빙하에 부딪치게 되는데. 그들의 사랑은 이런 거대한 재난앞에서도 승리하고 브루스 베일은 자신의 죄를 뉘우치면서 생을 마감하며 영화는 끝을 맺는다.
Killer at Large
First Coffin Man (uncredited)
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
Rebellion
Honeycutt
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
Everyman's Law
Lobo Joe
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.
퓨리
Stranger
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
The Singing Kid
Panhandler (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Herbert - the Morgue Attendant
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Ship Cafe
Jones (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
Barbary Coast
Sandy Ferguson
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Man Getting Rain Insurance (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Mad Love
Detective Arresting Stephen (Uncredited)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Murder in the Fleet
Yard Master (Uncredited)
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Mary Jane's Pa
Bartender
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Naughty Marietta
Jacques the Suitor (uncredited)
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
His Old Flame
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
A Wicked Woman
Proprietor (uncredited)
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
메리 위도우
Policeman (uncredited)
유럽의 작고 가난한 왕국 마코브니아의 국왕 아치메드는 국가의 재정을 보호하기 위해 고군분투한다. 왕국에서 제일가는 부자인 과부 소냐가 파리로 떠나자 국왕은 매력적인 대위 다닐로를 보내 그녀가 외국인과 재혼하는 것을 막으려 한다. 소냐와의 결혼에 실패하면 다닐로는 감옥에 가게 되는 것이다. 우여곡절 끝에 다닐로는 소냐와 결혼을 약속하지만 그가 명령에 의해 자신에게 접근했음을 알게 된 소냐는 다닐로의 청혼을 거절하고, 결국 다닐로는 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 프란츠 레하르의 유명한 동명 오페라타를 각색한 영화. 경쾌한 음악과 활기 넘치는 대사를 루비치 만의 세련된 유머와 스타일로 증류해 낸 작품으로, 시대를 통틀어 가장 뛰어난 뮤지컬 영화라는 평가를 받으며 이후 할리우드 뮤지컬에 많은 영향을 미쳤다.
The Merry Frinks
2nd Expressman (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
George White's Scandals
Sailor Brown
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from
Rolling Along
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
Hit the Deck
Mat
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.