Ray Collins
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7266 |
| Birthday | 1889-12-10 |
| Place of Birth | Sacramento, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Raymond Bidwell Collins, Ray Bidwell Collins, |
1941
Citizen Kane
7.966/6218
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, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.7/764
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 arrive...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.3/491
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1958
Touch of Evil
7.7/1640
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, sett...
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Touch of Evil
1949
The Price of Freedom
8/1
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...
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The Price of Freedom
1949
The Fountainhead
6.8/161
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...
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The Fountainhead
1951
The Racket
6.3/42
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...
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The Racket
1946
Crack-Up
5.75/34
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Crack-Up
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
6.905/142
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 sist...
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1949
The Heiress
7.8/287
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...
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The Heiress
1947
A Double Life
6.4/83
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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A Double Life
1948
The Man from Colorado
6.873/51
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...
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The Man from Colorado
1951
Vengeance Valley
5.4/60
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, a...
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Vengeance Valley
1950
Summer Stock
6.7/58
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...
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Summer Stock
1947
The Senator Was Indiscreet
6.167/6
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...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
7.6/5
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
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The Reformer and the Redhead
1950
Paid in Full
6.889/9
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
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Paid in Full
1946
Badman's Territory
6.3/13
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 s...
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Badman's Territory
1945
Leave Her to Heaven
7.5/286
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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Leave Her to Heaven
1943
The Human Comedy
6.243/35
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 w...
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The Human Comedy
1955
The Desperate Hours
7/187
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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The Desperate Hours
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
7.1/10
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 i...
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1944
Can't Help Singing
6/10
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 hi...
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Can't Help Singing
1951
You're in the Navy Now
5.533/15
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. Teake...
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You're in the Navy Now
1949
Hideout
5.857/7
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 discov...
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Hideout
1953
Bad for Each Other
6/12
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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Bad for Each Other
1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
7/4
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
Crime Doctor
6.357/14
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...
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Crime Doctor
1956
The Solid Gold Cadillac
6.2/37
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends he...
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
1945
The Hidden Eye
7.857/7
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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The Hidden Eye
1943
Salute to the Marines
7.2/5
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...
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Salute to the Marines
1944
See Here, Private Hargrove
6.5/2
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic trai...
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See Here, Private Hargrove
1948
Homecoming
7.125/12
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 d...
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Homecoming
1942
The Big Street
5.81/21
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
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The Big Street
1942
Commandos Strike at Dawn
5.5/24
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocitie...
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
Highways by Night
7.333/3
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
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Highways by Night
1942
The Navy Comes Through
6/11
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
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The Navy Comes Through
1948
Good Sam
6.326/23
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 un...
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Good Sam
1955
The Miracle on 34th Street
5.679/14
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 i...
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The Miracle on 34th Street
1931
Words & Music
6.5/2
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 di...
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Words & Music
1952
Invitation
6.714/7
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
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Invitation
1952
Young Man with Ideas
5.2/9
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Young Man with Ideas
1945
Roughly Speaking
6.8/5
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 m...
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Roughly Speaking
1946
Night in Paradise
6.5/2
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
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Night in Paradise
1953
Column South
6.167/12
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 Territo...
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Column South
1955
Texas Lady
5.7/6
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. He...
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Texas Lady
1956
Never Say Goodbye
6.4/20
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...
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Never Say Goodbye
1954
Rose Marie
4.5/8
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mount...
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Rose Marie
1943
Slightly Dangerous
6/8
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Slightly Dangerous
1946
Up Goes Maisie
6.75/4
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Up Goes Maisie
1946
Boys' Ranch
7/5
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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Boys' Ranch
1953
The Desert Song
6.8/5
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The R...
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The Desert Song
1951
I Want You
5.222/9
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 veter...
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I Want You
1946
Three Wise Fools
5.667/3
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
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Three Wise Fools
1944
The Eve of St. Mark
5.9/11
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...
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The Eve of St. Mark
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
6.5/10
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 ship...
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Two Years Before the Mast
1947
The Red Stallion
10/1
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
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The Red Stallion
2014
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
0/0
Jamaica, famous for its decelerated lifestyle and home of the Reggae music, is also the birthplace of the unique, multi-purpose steerable pushcart: an...
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Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
1948
For the Love of Mary
6.2/7
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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For the Love of Mary
1946
Miss Susie Slagle's
8.5/2
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
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Miss Susie Slagle's
1944
Barbary Coast Gent
5.5/5
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 disc...
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Barbary Coast Gent
1932
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
5.4/5
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.
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
1949
It Happens Every Spring
6.56/25
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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It Happens Every Spring
1952
Dreamboat
6.1/19
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been vio...
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Dreamboat
1948
Command Decision
6.6/24
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...
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Command Decision
1957
Spoilers of the Forest
6/2
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's p...
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Spoilers of the Forest
1949
Red Stallion In The Rockies
9/1
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
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Red Stallion In The Rockies
1948
The Swordsman
7.333/3
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
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The Swordsman
1950
Francis
5.8/28
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...
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Francis
1940
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
7.5/2
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.
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Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
1951
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
6.731/14
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 t...
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1950
Kill the Umpire
6.857/7
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 Ev...
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Kill the Umpire
1949
Free For All
6.333/3
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Free For All
1931
One Way Out
7/1
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...
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One Way Out
1953
The Kid from Left Field
7.7/5
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, C...
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The Kid from Left Field
1956
The Go-Getter
10/1
The Go-Getter (1956)
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The Go-Getter
1951
Reunion in Reno
6.3/3
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.
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Reunion in Reno
1944
Main Street Today
6.333/6
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 work...
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Main Street Today
1943
Madame Curie
7.2/52
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...
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Madame Curie
1954
Athena
5.8/8
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
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Athena
1960
I'll Give My Life
8/2
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 mak...
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I'll Give My Life
1944
The Seventh Cross
6.8/43
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...
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The Seventh Cross
1980
Viva la clase media
5.571/7
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 activi...
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Viva la clase media
1944
The Hitler Gang
6.3/10
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.
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The Hitler Gang
1947
Trail Street
6.5/13
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...
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Trail Street
1946
The Return of Monte Cristo
6.25/4
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 t...
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The Return of Monte Cristo
1957
Invitation to a Gunfighter
0/0
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...
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