Known for Acting
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.
Born
December 10, 1889
Died
July 11, 1965 (age 75)
Birthplace
Sacramento, California, USA
Filmography
87 films, 11 shows
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
2014 · 52m
Jamaica, famous for its decelerated lifestyle and home of the Reggae music, is also the birthplace of the unique, multi-purpose steerable pushcart: an affectionately hand-made vehicle of diverse capabilities.


Viva la clase media
1980 · 1h 36m · ES
Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.


I'll Give My Life
1960 · 1h 18m · US
This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earned a degree in engineering. John has planned to make his son a partner in his engineering firm for many years. However, Jim has decided to enter the ministry.


Touch of Evil
1958 · 1h 51m · US
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.


Spoilers of the Forest
1957 · 1h 8m · US
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.


Invitation to a Gunfighter
1957 · 1h 30m · US
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.


The Solid Gold Cadillac
1956 · 1h 39m · US
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.


Never Say Goodbye
1956 · 1h 36m · US
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.


The Go-Getter
1956 · 1h 18m · US
The Go-Getter (1956)


The Miracle on 34th Street
1955 · 46m · US
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.


Texas Lady
1955 · 1h 22m · US
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney, whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons, who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.


The Desperate Hours
1955 · 1h 52m · US
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.


Athena
1954 · 1h 36m · US
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.


Rose Marie
1954 · 1h 55m · US
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.


Bad for Each Other
1953 · 1h 23m · US
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.


The Kid from Left Field
1953 · 1h 20m · US
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.


The Desert Song
1953 · 1h 50m · US
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.


Column South
1953 · 1h 24m · US
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.


Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1952 · 1h 16m · US
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.


Dreamboat
1952 · 1h 23m · US
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.


Young Man with Ideas
1952 · 1h 24m · US
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.


Invitation
1952 · 1h 24m · US
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.


I Want You
1951 · 1h 42m · US
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.


The Racket
1951 · 1h 28m · US
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.


Reunion in Reno
1951 · 1h 19m · US
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.


Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1951 · 1h 20m · US
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."


You're in the Navy Now
1951 · 1h 33m · US
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.


Vengeance Valley
1951 · 1h 23m · US
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.


Summer Stock
1950 · 1h 48m · US
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.


The Reformer and the Redhead
1950 · 1h 30m · US
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.


Kill the Umpire
1950 · 1h 18m · US
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.


Paid in Full
1950 · 1h 38m · US
Jane has always done all she can for her selfish sister Nancy. After both fall for handsome Bill, Jane graciously steps aside. Relationships among all parties are further complicated when the now-married Bill realizes he's still in love with Jane.


Francis
1950 · 1h 31m · US
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.


Free For All
1949 · 1h 23m · US
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.


The Heiress
1949 · 1h 55m · US
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.


The Fountainhead
1949 · 1h 52m · US
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.


It Happens Every Spring
1949 · 1h 27m · US
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.


Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949 · 1h 25m · US
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
The Price of Freedom
The Price of Freedom
1949 · 23m · US
The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns and influences his father to print news items which will lead the people of their community to see the world situation as it is instead of as they want to believe it is.


Hideout
1949 · 1h 1m · US
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.


Command Decision
1948 · 1h 52m · US
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.


Good Sam
1948 · 1h 54m · US
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.


For the Love of Mary
1948 · 1h 30m · US
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.


The Man from Colorado
1948 · 1h 40m · US
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.


Homecoming
1948 · 1h 53m · US
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.


The Swordsman
1948 · 1h 20m · US
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.


The Senator Was Indiscreet
1947 · 1h 28m · US
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.


A Double Life
1947 · 1h 44m · US
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.


The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947 · 1h 35m · US
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.


The Red Stallion
1947 · 1h 21m · US
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.


Trail Street
1947 · 1h 24m · US
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.


The Return of Monte Cristo
1946 · 1h 31m · US
The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles, Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright.


Two Years Before the Mast
1946 · 1h 38m · US
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).


The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · 2h 51m · US
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.


Three Wise Fools
1946 · 1h 30m · US
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.


Crack-Up
1946 · 1h 36m · US
George Steele, an art critic and forgery expert at a Manhattan museum, experiences a bizarre mental breakdown after surviving what he vividly remembers as a terrifying train wreck. When Steele tries to report and talk about the accident, he discovers that no one else remembers it, and police records show no train crash ever happened, leading everyone–and eventually Steele himself–to question his sanity.


Boys' Ranch
1946 · 1h 37m · US
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.


Badman's Territory
1946 · 1h 37m · US
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.


Night in Paradise
1946 · 1h 24m · US
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.


Miss Susie Slagle's
1946 · 1h 28m · US
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.


Up Goes Maisie
1946 · 1h 29m · US
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.


Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · 1h 50m · US
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.


The Hidden Eye
1945 · 1h 9m · US
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.


Roughly Speaking
1945 · 1h 57m · US
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.


Can't Help Singing
1944 · 1h 30m · US
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.


Barbary Coast Gent
1944 · 1h 27m · US
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.


The Seventh Cross
1944 · 1h 50m · US
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.


The Eve of St. Mark
1944 · 1h 36m · US
Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and his hometown girlfriend Janet discuss their future plans.


The Hitler Gang
1944 · 1h 41m · US
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.


Main Street Today
1944 · 20m · US
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.


See Here, Private Hargrove
1944 · 1h 41m · US
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.


Madame Curie
1943 · 2h 4m · US
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.


Whistling in Brooklyn
1943 · 1h 27m · US
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.


Salute to the Marines
1943 · 1h 41m · US
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.


Crime Doctor
1943 · 1h 6m · US
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.


Slightly Dangerous
1943 · 1h 34m · US
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.


The Human Comedy
1943 · 1h 58m · US
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.


Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942 · 1h 38m · US
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.


The Navy Comes Through
1942 · 1h 22m · US
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.


Highways by Night
1942 · 1h 5m · US
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.


The Big Street
1942 · 1h 28m · US
After her abusive gangster boyfriend pushes her down a flight of stairs, self-absorbed nightclub torch singer Gloria Lyons becomes paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Despite her bitter treatment of him, busboy Little Pinks selflessly takes her in and cares for her as she alienates others.


The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · 1h 28m · US
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.


Citizen Kane
1941 · 1h 59m · US
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.


Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
1940 · 25m · US
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.


The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
1932 · 22m · US
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.


Words & Music
1931 · 21m · US
Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wants to break into the business, but knows it is difficult to get music publishers to consider new talent. Don sees Ruth having dinner at a night club and asks for her help.
One Way Out
One Way Out
1931 · 9m · US
A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one needs a permit to commit suicide, so off the man goes to the Department of Suicides for a suicide permit, which he is granted.