Roger Gray

Nascimento : 1881-05-26, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Morte : 1959-01-20

História

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).

Filmes

À Meia Luz
Stranger (uncredited)
Anos depois de sua tia ser assassinada em sua casa, uma jovem se muda de volta para casa com seu novo marido. No entanto, ele tem um segredo e fará qualquer coisa para protegê-lo mesmo que isso signifique enlouquecer sua esposa.
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).
Anjos da Broadway
Gambler (uncredited)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. é Bill O´Brien, um futuro gângster que se associa a Nina Barona (Rita Hayworth), uma dançarina azarada, num esquema de fraude que os leva a ganhar mais do que planejaram.
O Galante Aventureiro
Eph Stringer - Homesteader (uncredited)
Fazendeiros lutam pelo controle das terras do Juiz, o lendário Roy Bean, um homem que pode tanto temer como honrar a lei do Oeste. Walter Brennan (Kentucky), em sua 3ª atuação ganhadora de Prêmio da Academia*, vive o todo poderoso Roy Bean. O vencedor do Oscar® - Gary Cooper (High Noon) é Cole Hardin, um estranho acusado de roubar um cavalo, que tenta se livrar da forca graças a Bean. Dirigido pelo vencedor do Oscar® - William Wyler (Ben-Hur), A Última Fronteira é a saga de um homem que mostra coragem ao enfrentar seus inimigos.
O Cavaleiro de Durango
Henchman Jergens (uncredited)
Numa região de fronteira do velho oeste uma verdadeira guerra é travada entre os pioneiros. O rancheiro Sam Lowry (Frank LaRue) é covardemente assassinado pela gangue de Mace Ballard (Kenneth MacDonald) sob a falsa acusação de que estaria traindo os colonos. Depois desse crime brutal surge no horizonte um novo personagem. "Durango Kid", um pistoleiro mascarado que, com ares de Robin Hood, resolve defender todas as pessoas oprimidas da região. Durango é na realidade Bill Lowry (Charles Starrett), um homem íntegro e honesto que deseja ver a justiça novamente imperando naquela terra sem lei.
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.
Noiva da Fatalidade
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.
Road to Singapore
Cherry's Father (uncredited)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
Vendo o China
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!
Marujo Intrépido
Nate Rogers (uncredited)
Harvey Cheyne é uma criança rica e mimada, acostumada a fazer tudo do seu próprio jeito. Quando uma brincadeira dá errado a bordo de um transatlântico Harvey acaba caindo ao mar e quase se afoga. Felizmente, ele é pego por um barco que acabou de sair para a temporada de pesca. Ele tenta subornar a tripulação para voltar mais cedo e ganhar uma recompensa, mas nenhum deles acredita nele. Encalhado no barco ele deve adaptar-se ao jeito dos pescadores e aprender mais sobre o mundo real. Adaptação do romance de Rudyard Kipling.
Justiça Humana
Pipe-Smokerat Carnival
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
A História Começou à Noite
A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Killer at Large
First Coffin Man (uncredited)
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
A Tentadora
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.
Fúria
Stranger
Quando um injustamente acusado prisioneiro mal sobrevive a um ataque de uma turba de linchadores e é dado como morto, ele vingativamente decide responsabilizar a multidão pelo seu assassinato. Joe Wilson e Katherine Grant estão namorando, mas ele não tem dinheiro suficiente para se casar. Então Katherine viaja pelo país para ganhar dinheiro. Mas as coisas dão desastrosamente errado para Joe quando ele para em uma pequena cidade e é confundido com um assassino procurado. Ao longo do filme, Fritz Lang nos mostra como um homem decente e civilizado pode tornar-se um homem cruel e amargo.
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.
Duas Almas se Encontram
Sandy Ferguson
Numa corrida do ouro californiano que atraiu aventureiros dos quatro cantos do mundo, chegam por terra ou por mar. Na véspera do ano novo em São Francisco chega um barco com pessoas só com um pensamento: ouro, mas igualmente está a bordo Marcus Aurelius Cobb (Frank Craven), um jornalista que pretende fundar um jornal na cidade, e Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), que veio da cidade de Nova Iorque. Mary quer se casar muito brevemente com Dan Morgan, que foi responsável pela greve no Vale dos Colonos, mas ela tem uma desagradável surpresa ao ter conhecimento que o mesmo vale e Dan já não existem. Uma história que fala da febre do ouro e das diferentes maneiras que o homem com sede de riqueza arranja para o conseguir.
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.
The Merry Widow
Policeman (uncredited)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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.