Roger Gray

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Gray (May 26, 1881 – January 20, 1959) was an American character who was active in the early years of the talking picture era. Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1881, he began acting later in life, his first role being featured part in 1930's Hit the Deck. Over his 14-year career he would have small or featured roles in over 75 films, including such classics as The Merry Widow (1934), Les Misérables (1935), Captains Courageous (1937), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939), and 1940's Road to Singapore. His final appearance would be in a small role in the 1943 film Redhead from Manhattan. Married and divorced twice, he died in a Los Angeles hospital, and his body was cremated in the crematorium of Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever Cemetery).

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Captains Courageous (1937)

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Fleming
CAST:  Freddie Bartholomew  •  Spencer Tracy  •  Lionel Barrymore  •  Melvyn Douglas

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Victor Fleming
CAST:  Freddie Bartholomew  •  Spencer Tracy  •  Lionel Barrymore  •  Melvyn Douglas

Fury (1936)

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fritz Lang
CAST:  Sylvia Sidney  •  Spencer Tracy  •  Walter Abel  •  Bruce Cabot

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fritz Lang
CAST:  Sylvia Sidney  •  Spencer Tracy  •  Walter Abel  •  Bruce Cabot

Gaslight (1944)

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Cukor
CAST:  Charles Boyer  •  Ingrid Bergman  •  Joseph Cotten  •  May Whitty

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Cukor
CAST:  Charles Boyer  •  Ingrid Bergman  •  Joseph Cotten  •  May Whitty

Mad Love (1935)

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karl Freund
CAST:  Peter Lorre  •  Frances Drake  •  Colin Clive  •  Ted Healy

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karl Freund
CAST:  Peter Lorre  •  Frances Drake  •  Colin Clive  •  Ted Healy

The Westerner (1940)

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Wyler
CAST:  Gary Cooper  •  Walter Brennan  •  Doris Davenport  •  Fred Stone

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Wyler
CAST:  Gary Cooper  •  Walter Brennan  •  Doris Davenport  •  Fred Stone

Naughty Marietta (1935)

A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.  (more)

DIRECTION:  W.S. Van Dyke  •  Robert Z. Leonard
CAST:  Jeanette MacDonald  •  Nelson Eddy  •  Frank Morgan  •  Elsa Lanchester

A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.  (more)

DIRECTION:  W.S. Van Dyke  •  Robert Z. Leonard
CAST:  Jeanette MacDonald  •  Nelson Eddy  •  Frank Morgan  •  Elsa Lanchester

Double Wedding (1937)

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Thorpe
CAST:  William Powell  •  Myrna Loy  •  Florence Rice  •  John Beal

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Thorpe
CAST:  William Powell  •  Myrna Loy  •  Florence Rice  •  John Beal

A Wicked Woman (1934)

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Brabin
CAST:  Mady Christians  •  Jean Parker  •  Charles Bickford  •  Betty Furness

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Brabin
CAST:  Mady Christians  •  Jean Parker  •  Charles Bickford  •  Betty Furness

Murder in the Fleet (1935)

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Sedgwick
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Jean Parker  •  Ted Healy  •  Una Merkel

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Sedgwick
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Jean Parker  •  Ted Healy  •  Una Merkel

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)

A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank McDonald
CAST:  Ricardo Cortez  •  Kay Linaker  •  John Eldredge  •  Mary Astor

A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Frank McDonald
CAST:  Ricardo Cortez  •  Kay Linaker  •  John Eldredge  •  Mary Astor

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sidney Salkow
CAST:  Warren William  •  Jean Muir  •  Eric Blore  •  Victor Jory

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sidney Salkow
CAST:  Warren William  •  Jean Muir  •  Eric Blore  •  Victor Jory

Professor Beware (1938)

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elliott Nugent
CAST:  Harold Lloyd  •  Phyllis Welch  •  Raymond Walburn  •  Lionel Stander

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elliott Nugent
CAST:  Harold Lloyd  •  Phyllis Welch  •  Raymond Walburn  •  Lionel Stander

The Merry Frinks (1934)

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred E. Green
CAST:  Aline MacMahon  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Hugh Herbert  •  Allen Jenkins

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred E. Green
CAST:  Aline MacMahon  •  Guy Kibbee  •  Hugh Herbert  •  Allen Jenkins

The Singing Kid (1936)

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Keighley
CAST:  Al Jolson  •  Sybil Jason  •  Beverly Roberts  •  Edward Everett Horton

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Keighley
CAST:  Al Jolson  •  Sybil Jason  •  Beverly Roberts  •  Edward Everett Horton

The Merry Widow (1934)

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ernst Lubitsch
CAST:  Maurice Chevalier  •  Jeanette MacDonald  •  Edward Everett Horton  •  Una Merkel

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ernst Lubitsch
CAST:  Maurice Chevalier  •  Jeanette MacDonald  •  Edward Everett Horton  •  Una Merkel

Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

Charming

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Beaudine
CAST:  Glenda Farrell  •  Barton MacLane  •  Tom Kennedy  •  Henry O'Neill

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Beaudine
CAST:  Glenda Farrell  •  Barton MacLane  •  Tom Kennedy  •  Henry O'Neill

Wild and Woolly (1937)

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred L. Werker
CAST:  Jane Withers  •  Walter Brennan  •  Pauline Moore  •  Carl Switzer

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred L. Werker
CAST:  Jane Withers  •  Walter Brennan  •  Pauline Moore  •  Carl Switzer

Out West with the Peppers (1940)

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Barton
CAST:  Dorothy Peterson  •  Edith Fellows  •  Charles Peck  •  Tommy Bond

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Charles Barton
CAST:  Dorothy Peterson  •  Edith Fellows  •  Charles Peck  •  Tommy Bond

Pardon My Gun (1942)

In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the bushes without opening it. Later a woman happens upon the cash and finds herself a prime suspect in the killing. Fortunately, a survey ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Berke
CAST:  Charles Starrett  •  Alma Carroll  •  Arthur Hunnicutt  •  Texas Jim Lewis

In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the bushes without opening it. Later a woman happens upon the cash and finds herself a prime suspect in the killing. Fortunately, a survey ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  William Berke
CAST:  Charles Starrett  •  Alma Carroll  •  Arthur Hunnicutt  •  Texas Jim Lewis

Ship Cafe (1935)

The singing stoker and the vamp.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Florey
CAST:  Carl Brisson  •  Mady Christians  •  Arline Judge  •  William Frawley

The singing stoker and the vamp.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Florey
CAST:  Carl Brisson  •  Mady Christians  •  Arline Judge  •  William Frawley
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