Ray Collins
Acting • Born 1889-12-10 – Died 1965-07-11
Biography
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 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.
Filmography
99 credits
Citizen Kane
Movie • 1941
Jim W. Gettys
The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie • 1946
Mr. Milton
The Magnificent Ambersons
Movie • 1942
Jack Amberson
Touch of Evil
Movie • 1958
District Attorney Adair
The Price of Freedom
Movie • 1949
Thomas Vollmer
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Roger Enright
The Racket
Movie • 1951
Mortimer Welsh
Crack-Up
Movie • 1946
Dr. Lowell
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Movie • 1947
Dr. Matt Beemish
The Heiress
Movie • 1949
Jefferson Almond
A Double Life
Movie • 1947
Victor Donlan
The Man from Colorado
Movie • 1948
Big Ed Carter
Summer Stock
Movie • 1950
Jasper G. Wingait
Vengeance Valley
Movie • 1951
Arch Strobie
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Movie • 1947
Fred Houlihan
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie • 1950
Commodore Parker
Paid in Full
Movie • 1950
Dr. Fredericks
Badman's Territory
Movie • 1946
Colonel Farewell / Narrator
Leave Her to Heaven
Movie • 1945
Glen Robie
The Human Comedy
Movie • 1943
Mr. Macauley
The Desperate Hours
Movie • 1955
Sheriff Masters
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Movie • 1952
Jonathan Parker
Can't Help Singing
Movie • 1944
Senator Frost
You're in the Navy Now
Movie • 1951
Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
Hideout
Movie • 1949
Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
Bad for Each Other
Movie • 1953
Dan Reasonover
Whistling in Brooklyn
Movie • 1943
Grover Kendall
Crime Doctor
Movie • 1943
Dr. John Carey
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Movie • 1956
Alfred Metcalfe
The Hidden Eye
Movie • 1945
Phillip Treadway
Salute to the Marines
Movie • 1943
Col. John Mason
See Here, Private Hargrove
Movie • 1944
Brodie S. Griffith
Homecoming
Movie • 1948
Lt. Col. Avery Silver
The Big Street
Movie • 1942
Professor B
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Movie • 1942
Johan Bergesen
Highways by Night
Movie • 1942
Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
The Navy Comes Through
Movie • 1942
Capt. McCall
Good Sam
Movie • 1948
Rev. Daniels
The Miracle on 34th Street
Movie • 1955
Judge Harper
Words & Music
Movie • 1931
Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
Invitation
Movie • 1952
Warren Pritchard
Young Man with Ideas
Movie • 1952
Edmund Jethrow
Roughly Speaking
Movie • 1945
John Chase Randall
Night in Paradise
Movie • 1946
Leonides
Column South
Movie • 1953
Storey
Texas Lady
Movie • 1955
Mica Ralston (rancher)
Never Say Goodbye
Movie • 1956
Dr. Bailey
Rose Marie
Movie • 1954
Insp. Appleby
Slightly Dangerous
Movie • 1943
Snodgrass
Up Goes Maisie
Movie • 1946
Mr. Floyd Henderickson
Boys' Ranch
Movie • 1946
Davis Banton
The Desert Song
Movie • 1953
Gen. Birabeau
I Want You
Movie • 1951
Judge Kenneth Turner
Three Wise Fools
Movie • 1946
Judge Watson
The Eve of St. Mark
Movie • 1944
Deckman West
Two Years Before the Mast
Movie • 1946
Gordon Stewart
The Red Stallion
Movie • 1947
Perry Barton
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
Movie • 2014
For the Love of Mary
Movie • 1948
Harvey Elwood
Miss Susie Slagle's
Movie • 1946
Dr. Elijah Howe
Barbary Coast Gent
Movie • 1944
Johnny Adair
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Movie • 1932
Waite
It Happens Every Spring
Movie • 1949
Alfred Greenleaf
Dreamboat
Movie • 1952
Timothy Stone
Command Decision
Movie • 1948
Maj. Desmond Lansing
Spoilers of the Forest
Movie • 1957
Eric Warren
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Movie • 1949
Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
The Swordsman
Movie • 1948
MacCoppin
Francis
Movie • 1950
Colonel Hooker
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
Movie • 1940
Mayor (voice)
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Movie • 1951
Jonathan Parker
Kill the Umpire
Movie • 1950
Jonah Evans
Free For All
Movie • 1949
A B Blair
One Way Out
Movie • 1931
Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
The Kid from Left Field
Movie • 1953
Fred F. Whacker
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1956
J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
Reunion in Reno
Movie • 1951
Judge Thomas Kneeland
Main Street Today
Movie • 1944
Otis Bird
Madame Curie
Movie • 1943
Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Athena
Movie • 1954
Mr. Tremaine
I'll Give My Life
Movie • 1960
John Bradford
The Seventh Cross
Movie • 1944
Wallau
Viva la clase media
Movie • 1980
The Hitler Gang
Movie • 1944
Cardinal von Faulhaber
Trail Street
Movie • 1947
Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Return of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1946
Emil Blanchard
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Movie • 1957
Harris Clayton
Citizen Kane Trailer
Movie • 1940
himself/Jim Gettys
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Lieutenant Tragg
Studio One
TV • 1948
Gen. Sam Woolery
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Herbert Brenner
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Barton Keyes
Climax!
TV • 1954
Jerome Harris
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Callicott
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Daniel Webster
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Evan Gracie
The Halls of Ivy
TV • 1954
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Judge Harper
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
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