John Wray
Age: 53 | From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1887-02-13 21:50:18
Death: 1940-04-05 21:50:18
Aliases: John Griffith Malloy
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Movie Involvements: 56
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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
Most Famous Work
Gone with the Wind
(1939) Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930) Himmelstoss
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
(1932) Nordine (uncredited)
You Only Live Once
(1937) Warden Wheeler
Boys Town
(1938) Weasel (uncredited)
Swiss Family Robinson
(1940) Ramsey
Each Dawn I Die
(1939) Pete Kassock
Poor Little Rich Girl
(1936) FlaginActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Joe - Farmer | |
| Mr. Carpenter | ||
| Ramsey | ||
| Bowers the Printer | ||
| Hank | ||
| 1939 | Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited) | |
| Stanley | ||
| Hendricks | ||
| Convict Diggs | ||
| Chocolate Drop's Manager | ||
| Chris Hays | ||
| Poultry Truck Driver | ||
| Pete Kassock | ||
| 'Crack' Williams | ||
| Silas | ||
| Metcalfe | ||
| 1938 | Tom Johnson | |
| Howell | ||
| Weasel (uncredited) | ||
| Dr. Sparks | ||
| Joe Turner | ||
| Head Lawyer | ||
| Maddock | ||
| Herbert Sandford | ||
| J. Z. Wray | ||
| Walling | ||
| 1937 | Brother Nameless | |
| Joe Peters | ||
| Roebling | ||
| Hank Simmerson | ||
| Warden Wheeler | ||
| Jerry Daley | ||
| 1936 | Sparks | |
| George Darnley | ||
| Priest | ||
| Lang, a Gangster | ||
| Flagin | ||
| Farmer | ||
| 1935 | N/A | |
| The Weasel | ||
| Fred Larkin | ||
| Mitts Coster | ||
| Sam Hammond | ||
| Mike Gibbons | ||
| Feets Moore | ||
| 1934 | Antonio Poricci | |
| Fletcher | ||
| Mr. Jeddock | ||
| Slug | ||
| Michael Cooney | ||
| Jason Getty | ||
| Carter | ||
| Inspector Crofton | ||
| Willie McGuire | ||
| Higgins | ||
| Giovanni Martini | ||
| 1933 | Bill O'Neal | |
| Mitika, the Gypsy Contact | ||
| 1932 | Foreman of Janitors | |
| Robert Smiley | ||
| Detective Lieut. Sheehan | ||
| Nordine (uncredited) | ||
| Dr. Haines | ||
| Hugo | ||
| Clark Davis | ||
| The Frog | ||
| Mr. Barton | ||
| Jimmy Moore | ||
| Cmdr. Brambourg | ||
| 1931 | Eagan | |
| Harry Silvers | ||
| Kenneth Stone | ||
| 1930 | Morton Bradstreet | |
| Himmelstoss | ||
| 1929 | Joe Prividi | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Additional Dialogue | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |