Aldo Ray

Acting

Born Sep 25, 1926

From Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA

Died Mar 27, 1991

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.

Aldo Ray

Known For

The Secret of NIMH

The Green Berets

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

The Sicilian

Battle Cry

Pat and Mike

We're No Angels

Sylvia

Men in War

Nightfall

Filmography — Acting

The Secret of NIMH

The Green Berets

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

The Sicilian

Battle Cry

Pat and Mike

We're No Angels

Sylvia

Men in War

Nightfall

The Power

Human Experiments

The Naked and the Dead

Psychic Killer

The Glove

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Welcome to Hard Times

Blood Red

The Centerfold Girls

Gone with the West

The Dynamite Brothers

The Marrying Kind

Seven Alone

Riot on Sunset Strip

Johnny Nobody

Let's Do It Again

Miss Sadie Thompson

Shock 'Em Dead

Inside Out

Biohazard

Evils of the Night

God's Little Acre

Star Slammer

Three Stripes in the Sun

Death Dimension

And Hope to Die

Haunts

Young Rebels

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

The Lucifer Complex

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

Nightmare in the Sun

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

Musketeers of the Sea

Bog

Haunted

To Kill a Stranger

My True Story

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Suicide Commando

Don't Go Near the Park

Deadlock

Promise Him Anything

Hateman

The Bad Bunch

Angel Unchained

Flesh and Bullets

Mongrel

Night Shadow

Crime of Crimes

Saturday's Hero

The Man Who Would Not Die

The Barefoot Mailman

The Siege of Pinchgut

3-D Rarities

Terror Night

The Violent Ones