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Ray Collins

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American actor (1889-1965)

United StatesActorsLived 1889 to 1965 · aged 75
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Ray Bidwell Collins 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.

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Filmography 40

Citizen Kane1941 · ★ 8.0
Touch of Evil1958 · ★ 7.7
The Best Years of Our Lives1946 · ★ 7.7
The Magnificent Ambersons1942 · ★ 7.3
The Heiress1949 · ★ 7.8
Leave Her to Heaven1945 · ★ 7.5
The Fountainhead1949 · ★ 6.8
The Desperate Hours1955 · ★ 7.0
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer1947 · ★ 6.9
Vengeance Valley1951 · ★ 5.4
Summer Stock1950 · ★ 6.7
A Double Life1947 · ★ 6.4
The Man from Colorado1948 · ★ 6.9
Madame Curie1943 · ★ 7.2
The Seventh Cross1944
The Racket1951
The Human Comedy1943
The Solid Gold Cadillac1956
Command Decision1948
Crack-Up1946
Francis1950
Never Say Goodbye1956
Good Sam1948
Commandos Strike at Dawn1942
The Big Street1942
It Happens Every Spring1949
Dreamboat1952
Badman's Territory1946
Trail Street1947
Homecoming1948
You're in the Navy Now1951
Column South1953
Crime Doctor1943
Bad for Each Other1953
The Miracle on 34th Street1955
The Navy Comes Through1942
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm1951
Athena1954
Two Years Before the Mast1946
The Hitler Gang1944

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Television 11

Perry Mason1957
Father Knows Best1954
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956
Studio One1948
Climax!1954
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour1955
Lux Video Theatre1950
Cavalcade of America1952
On Trial1956
The Halls of Ivy1954

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About this person

Ray Bidwell Collins 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 (1941), as Kane's political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Arthur Tragg in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason.

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1889 to 1965 · aged 75
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