Ray Collins
ActingRay 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 Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane, as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as the irascible Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on the television series Perry Mason.
Known For
Citizen Kane
Jim W. Gettys
Touch of Evil
District Attorney Adair
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Milton
The Heiress
Jefferson Almond
Badman's Territory
Colonel Farewell / Narrator
Summer Stock
Jasper G. Wingait
Madame Curie
Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Crack-Up
Dr. Lowell
Leave Her to Heaven
Glen Robie
The Fountainhead
Roger Enright
Filmography — Acting
Citizen Kane
Jim W. Gettys
Touch of Evil
District Attorney Adair
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Milton
The Heiress
Jefferson Almond
Badman's Territory
Colonel Farewell / Narrator
Summer Stock
Jasper G. Wingait
Madame Curie
Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Crack-Up
Dr. Lowell
Leave Her to Heaven
Glen Robie
The Fountainhead
Roger Enright
The Racket
Mortimer Welsh
Vengeance Valley
Arch Strobie
Francis
Colonel Hooker
The Magnificent Ambersons
Jack Amberson
A Double Life
Victor Donlan
The Desperate Hours
Sheriff Masters
Trail Street
Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Athena
Mr. Tremaine
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Dr. Matt Beemish
Invitation
Warren Pritchard
Crime Doctor
Dr. John Carey
Roughly Speaking
John Chase Randall
The Human Comedy
Mr. Macauley
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Alfred Metcalfe
You're in the Navy Now
Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
Good Sam
Rev. Daniels
The Miracle on 34th Street
Judge Harper
The Big Street
Professor B
Rose Marie
Insp. Appleby
Homecoming
Lt. Col. Avery Silver
For the Love of Mary
Harvey Elwood
It Happens Every Spring
Alfred Greenleaf
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Johan Bergesen
The Desert Song
Gen. Birabeau
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Fred Houlihan
Command Decision
Maj. Desmond Lansing
Never Say Goodbye
Dr. Bailey
Whistling in Brooklyn
Grover Kendall
Dreamboat
Timothy Stone
Paid in Full
Dr. Fredericks
Barbary Coast Gent
Johnny Adair
The Seventh Cross
Wallau
The Man from Colorado
Big Ed Carter
Can't Help Singing
Senator Frost
The Eve of St. Mark
Deckman West
Slightly Dangerous
Snodgrass
The Navy Comes Through
Capt. McCall
Spoilers of the Forest
Eric Warren
The Return of Monte Cristo
Emil Blanchard
See Here, Private Hargrove
Brodie S. Griffith
I'll Give My Life
John Bradford
I Want You
Judge Kenneth Turner
Salute to the Marines
Col. John Mason
Hideout
Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
Boys' Ranch
Davis Banton
The Swordsman
MacCoppin
Texas Lady
Mica Ralston (rancher)
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Jonathan Parker
The Hidden Eye
Phillip Treadway
The Reformer and the Redhead
Commodore Parker
Two Years Before the Mast
Gordon Stewart
The Kid from Left Field
Fred F. Whacker
Young Man with Ideas
Edmund Jethrow
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Harris Clayton
Up Goes Maisie
Mr. Floyd Henderickson
Miss Susie Slagle's
Dr. Elijah Howe
Kill the Umpire
Jonah Evans
Bad for Each Other
Dan Reasonover
Three Wise Fools
Judge Watson
Column South
Storey
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Jonathan Parker
Reunion in Reno
Judge Thomas Kneeland
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Waite
Main Street Today
Otis Bird
Free For All
A B Blair
Night in Paradise
Leonides
Highways by Night
Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
Citizen Kane Trailer
himself/Jim Gettys
One Way Out
Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
The Red Stallion
Perry Barton
Viva la clase media
The Price of Freedom
Thomas Vollmer
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
Words & Music
Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
The Hitler Gang
Cardinal von Faulhaber
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
Mayor (voice)
The Go-Getter
J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)