Aldo Ray

Known for ActingBorn 1926-09-25Died 1991-03-27Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA

Aldo Ray was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima. While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Idols in the Dust (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz"s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991). Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991.Read more

Movies & web series

Promise Him Anything

When I Am King

Deadlock

Women in White

The Secret of NIMH

S.W.A.T.

Sam Fuller & the Big Red One

Run for Your Life

Mission to Glory: A True Story

We're No Angels

The Man Who Would Not Die

The Violent Ones

Daniel Boone

CHiPs

Three Stripes in the Sun

Hollywood Preview

The Great Skycopter Rescue

Inside Out

Nightfall

The Ed Sullivan Show

Haunted

The Marrying Kind

Men in War

Johnny Nobody

Suicide Commando

The Quest

3-D Rarities

Kraft Suspense Theatre

And Hope to Die

The Virginian

My True Story

Riverboat

The Barefoot Mailman

Sylvia

The Power

The Houndcats

Musketeers of the Sea

Pat and Mike

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Seven Alone

Burke's Law

The Siege of Pinchgut

Love, American Style

God's Little Acre

Saturday's Hero

The Steve Allen Show

The Outsider

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England