Aldo Ray
Acting
Born September 25, 1926 · Pen 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.
Films (80)
3-D Rarities
2015
Shock 'Em Dead
1991
Young Rebels
1989
Terror Night
1989
Night Shadow
1989
Blood Red
1989
Crime of Crimes
1989
The Shooters
1989
Drug Runners
1988
The Sicilian
1987
Hollywood Cop
1987
Hateman
1987
Star Slammer
1986
To Kill a Stranger
1986
Terror on Alcatraz
1986
Evils of the Night
1985
Biohazard
1985
Flesh and Bullets
1985
The Executioner Part II
1984
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1984
Vultures
1983
Mongrel
1982
When I Am King
1982
The Secret of NIMH
1982
Dark Sanity
1982
Don't Go Near the Park
1981
The Great Skycopter Rescue
1980
The Glove
1979
Human Experiments
1979
Sweet Savage
1979
Bog
1979
Death Dimension
1978
The Lucifer Complex
1978
Haunted
1977
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977
Haunts
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
Psychic Killer
1975
Inside Out
1975
Gone with the West
1975
The Man Who Would Not Die
1975
Promise Him Anything
1975
Seven Alone
1974
The Centerfold Girls
1974
The Dynamite Brothers
1974
The Bad Bunch
1973
And Hope to Die
1972
Angel Unchained
1970
Deadlock
1969
Suicide Commando
1968
The Green Berets
1968
The Power
1968
A Torn Page of Glory
1968
Kill a Dragon
1967
The Violent Ones
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
Riot on Sunset Strip
1967
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
Nightmare in the Sun
1965
Sylvia
1965
Musketeers of the Sea
1962
Johnny Nobody
1961
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959
God's Little Acre
1958
The Naked and the Dead
1958
Men in War
1957
Nightfall
1956
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955
We're No Angels
1955
Battle Cry
1955
Miss Sadie Thompson
1953
Let's Do It Again
1953
Pat and Mike
1952
The Marrying Kind
1952
The Barefoot Mailman
1951
My True Story
1951
Saturday's Hero
1951