Ray Collins

Ray Collins

December 10, 1889

Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orso…

Known For

23 titles
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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

1941 · 1h 59m · Movie

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

1958 · 1h 35m · Movie

A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation h...

8.0
3
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · 2h 50m · Movie

Three traumatized or physically disabled World War II veterans return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed making readjustment difficult.

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The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942 · 1h 28m · Movie

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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The Heiress

The Heiress

1949 · 1h 55m · Movie

A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.

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Leave Her to Heaven

Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · 1h 50m · Movie

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

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7
The Desperate Hours

The Desperate Hours

1955 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

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The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

1949 · 1h 54m · Movie

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

7.0
9
A Double Life

A Double Life

1947 · 1h 44m · Movie

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

6.9
10
The Racket

The Racket

1951 · 1h 28m · Movie

In New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship.

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11
The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross

1944 · 1h 52m · Movie

In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh...

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12
The Man from Colorado

The Man from Colorado

1948 · 1h 40m · Movie

At the end of the Civil War, two friends return home to Colorado and one of them has changed and is violent and erratic.

6.7
13
Good Sam

Good Sam

1948 · 1h 54m · Movie

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.

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14
Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942 · 1h 38m · Movie

A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

6.5
15
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

1951 · 1h 20m · Movie

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically".

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16
Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

1956 · 1h 36m · Movie

In 1945 Vienna, an American doctor marries an Austrian girl, who later disappears in the Soviet Control Zone during a visit there, forcing everyone to presume her dead.

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17
Column South

Column South

1953 · 1h 24m · Movie

Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.

6.3
18
Athena

Athena

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

The story about two sisters in love. Everything should be wonderful, but father doesn't approve of his daughters' physically underdeveloped fiancés.

5.9
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Can't Help Singing

Can't Help Singing

1944 · 1h 30m · Movie

A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.

6.2
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

1952 · 1h 16m · Movie

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez ...

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21
Three Wise Fools

Three Wise Fools

1946 · 1h 30m · Movie

40 years since Richard, James, and Theodore insulted 'The O'Monahan' and he put a vexing blessing on them, all three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in one house as bachelors. Into this grand house comes ...

6.5
22
For the Love of Mary

For the Love of Mary

1948 · 1h 30m · Movie

A young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

6.6
23
Spoilers of the Forest

Spoilers of the Forest

1957 · 1h 8m · Movie

A lumber tycoon's (Ray Collins) foreman (Rod Cameron) woos a Montana (Vera Ralston) who owns 64,000 acres with her stepfather.

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