Ray Collins

Ray Collins
Date of Birth: 10 Dec 1889
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 60 (Actor)
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Citizen Kane
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance (imdb)
Touch of Evil
A Mexican government investigator and his young American wife put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when they become embroiled in a frame-up planned by the town's chief investigator (imdb)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. (imdb)
The Heiress
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. (imdb)
The Magnificent Ambersons
The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family... (imdb)
Leave Her to Heaven
A writer meets a young socialite on board a train. The two fall in love and are married soon after, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both them and everyone else around them. (imdb)
The Fountainhead
Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking... (imdb)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
A high school girl falls for a playboy artist with screwball results. (imdb)
The Racket
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things the old-fashioned way instead of using the syndicate's more genteel methods. The second problem is McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force... (imdb)
Valley Town
Valley Town (1940) - Short Film
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town. (imdb)
The Seventh Cross
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 seeks freedom in Holland. (imdb)
It Happens Every Spring
A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes the possibilities and takes a leave of absence to go to St. Louis to pitch in the big leagues where he becomes a star and propels his team to the world series. (imdb)
Two Years Before the Mast
Charles Stewart, the "Pilgrim" owner's playboy son, finds himself shanghaied on his father's ship commanded by cruel Captain Thompson. When scurvy breaks out he leads a mutiny and is slapped in irons. Floggings and torture abound. (imdb)
The Human Comedy
Homer Macauley remains in a small town looking after his widowed mother and younger brother. Homer's older brother is fighting the war in Europe. (imdb)
A Double Life
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy. (imdb)
The Man from Colorado
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. (imdb)
Vengeance Valley
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.
Crack-Up
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot? (imdb)
Good Sam
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. (imdb)
Badman\
The James Gang head for Quinto into a section of land where law has no rule. (imdb)
Commandos Strike at Dawn
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors. (imdb)
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Dim-witted blowhard, Melvin G. Ashton, is a US Senator who wants to be President. He hires Lew Gibson, a talented PR man who gets Ashton in newsreels and on the front page, never thinking he'll win. But Ashton has a secret weapon: a diary documenting every shady deal his party's made for 35 years. With the diary, he blackmails the party leaders to support his candidacy, and he's on his way to the nomination... (imdb)
Whistling in Brooklyn
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder. (tcm.com)
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When a new commander is assigned to a submarine chaser with an experimental engine, he finds the entire crew has as little experience as he does. (imdb)
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
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." (imdb)
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
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. (imdb)
Kill the Umpire
To appease his family, a retired baseball player signs up for umpire school. (TCM.com)
For the Love of Mary
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics. (imdb)
Dreamboat
Clifton Webb, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter (Anne Francis) to stop it. However, his former co-star (Ginger Rogers), is the hostess of the TV show playing his films and she has other plans. (imdb)
Invitation
Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife's trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. (imdb)
See Here, Private Hargrove
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. (imdb)
Slightly Dangerous
A small-town girl changes her identity to make it in New York, leaving her boyfriend a suspect in her "disappearance" (TCM.com)
Crime Doctor
Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal. (imdb)
Column South
As Lt. Jed Sayre struggles to prevent pre-Civil War tensions and a racist commanding officer from triggering war between the U.S. Cavalry and Navajo Indians, he finds his efforts are being undermined by the machinations of Confederate sympathizers. (imdb)
Bad for Each Other
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between setting up a glamorous practice and helping the poor. (TCM.com)
Up Goes Maisie
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks out to steal his ideas. (TCM.com)
The Eve of St. Mark
Story of young American soldier in the war, with his heart left at home with his girl. Gallantly holding out on a Philippine island against the enemy. (BFI)
Francis the Talking Mule
Stars O'Connor as GI Peter Sterling, who appears to be bucking for a Section Eight. Seems that Sterling keeps insisting that Francis, a cantankerous Army mule, has the power of speech. It turns out that Francis not only can talk, but is also a superb military strategist. With Francis' help, Sterling breaks up a Nazi spy ring and becomes a hero -- but this is only the beginning, as the future entries in Universal's Francis series would prove over and over. (allmovie.com)
The Kid from Left Field
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. (imdb)
Texas Lady
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes in the unexpected shape of the gambler she has just bested in New Orleans for her own family reasons. (imdb)
Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat (1987) - Direct-to-Video
Uncle Meat, who sometimes goes under the guises of Don Preston and Biff Debris, is an eccentric character who believs in musical progress and enjoys drinking fuming beakers and transforming into a monster. After seeing footage of him (as Don) transforming in this way while fighting for musical progress, film editor Phyllis Altenhaus meets him in person and falls in love.
The Hitler Gang
This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Except for some minor inaccuracies the historical facts are given in a correct way. (imdb)
Hideout
A gang of jewel thieves hide out in a small town after pulling off a big heist.
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A son decides to forgo fame and fortune in order to fully embrace his Christian beliefs by joining a seminary. This is much to the chagrin of his wealthy father. (publicdomainflicks)
Salute to the Marines
A retired Marine gets caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign. (tcm.com)
The Swordsman
A couple tries a hand at romance while their respective families are busy feuding. (tcm.com)
The Hidden Eye
Blind detective Duncan Maclaine relies on his working senses to piece together an assortment of clues to solve a case of murder. (imdb)
The Go-Getter
This slapstick comedy pokes fun at the business world. (allmovie.com)
Miss Susie Slagle\
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease. (imdb)
Main Street Today
set in World War II has a factory owner who produces the breech block for a key piece of army artillery. The military wants to increase production by 50% but they can barely meet their production targets as it is. Going to a third shift in the plant will need manpower, 500 in total, that is sorely missing due to the number of men in the military. The film then looks at the town's main street seeing where the workforce might come from. (imdb)
Perry Mason
Perry Mason (1957) - TV Series
A master defense attorney handles difficult criminal cases for his accused clients. (imdb)
Three Wise Fools
It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O'Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. All three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in a single house as bachelors. Into this grand house comes 7 year old Sheila with a request that these three become her guardians. But they do not want her and let her leave until they find that they need the property that Sheila has inherited. (imdb)
One Way Out
One Way Out (1931) - Short Film
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.
The Red Stallion
A mare dies while foaling the Red Stallion. He is reared by a boy and is entered in a big race - something like the Kentucky Derby.
Reunion in Reno
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. (imdb)
Night in Paradise
Story-teller Aesop tries to help loony King Croesus and manages to fall in love on the way. (imdb)
The Return of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of a crime and imprisoned. After 14 years ,He escapes and gets great wealth under the help of the Abbé Faria. Revitalised as the name of Monte Cristo,is to destroy the designs of corrupt and evil men.
Words & Music
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.
Red Stallion in the Rockies
"Good outdoors ""save the horse"" saga. The simple story is unfolded against the magnificent backdrop of the Rockies. Footage gets in a load of movement concerning wild horse hunts, equine fights, and even a circus sequence.
The Price of Freedom
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.