Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 politica...
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Complete Filmography
Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living
2014
Jamaica, famous for its decelerated lifestyle and home of the Reggae music, is also the birthplace of the unique, multi-purpose steerable pushcart: an...

Viva la clase media
1980
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...

I'll Give My Life
1960
as John Bradford
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...

Touch of Evil
1958
as District Attorney Adair
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along ...

Spoilers of the Forest
1957
as Eric Warren
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's p...

The Solid Gold Cadillac
1956
as Alfred Metcalfe
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends he...

Never Say Goodbye
1956
as Dr. Bailey
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 ...

The Go-Getter
1956
as J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
The Go-Getter (1956)

The Miracle on 34th Street
1955
as Judge Harper
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...

Texas Lady
1955
as Mica Ralston (rancher)
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...

The Desperate Hours
1955
as Sheriff Masters
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Athena
1954
as Mr. Tremaine
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
as Insp. Appleby
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...

Bad for Each Other
1953
as Dan Reasonover
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

The Kid from Left Field
1953
as Fred F. Whacker
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...

The Desert Song
1953
as Gen. Birabeau
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...

Column South
1953
as Storey
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...

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1952
as Jonathan Parker
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...

Dreamboat
1952
as Timothy Stone
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been vio...

Young Man with Ideas
1952
as Edmund Jethrow
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

Invitation
1952
as Warren Pritchard
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

I Want You
1951
as Judge Kenneth Turner
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...

The Racket
1951
as D. A. Mortimer X. Welsh
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...

Reunion in Reno
1951
as Judge Thomas Kneeland
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
as Jonathan Parker
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...

You're in the Navy Now
1951
as Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
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...

Vengeance Valley
1951
as Arch Strobie
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...

Summer Stock
1950
as Jasper G. Wingait
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 ...

The Reformer and the Redhead
1950
as Commodore Parker
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Kill the Umpire
1950
as Jonah Evans
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...

Paid in Full
1950
as Dr. Fredericks
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.

Francis
1950
as Colonel Hooker
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic a...

Free For All
1949
as A B Blair
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.

The Heiress
1949
as Jefferson Almond
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 ...

The Fountainhead
1949
as Roger Enright
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to ...

It Happens Every Spring
1949
as Alfred Greenleaf
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
as Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
The Price of Freedom
1949
as Thomas Vollmer
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 ...

Hideout
1949
as Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
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...

Command Decision
1948
as Maj. Desmond Lansing
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties ...

Good Sam
1948
as Rev. Daniels
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...

For the Love of Mary
1948
as Harvey Elwood
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

The Man from Colorado
1948
as Big Ed Carter
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 ...

Homecoming
1948
as Lt. Col. Avery Silver
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...

The Swordsman
1948
as MacCoppin
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

The Senator Was Indiscreet
1947
as Fred Houlihan
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 ...

A Double Life
1947
as Victor Donlan
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
as Dr. Matt Beemish
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...

The Red Stallion
1947
as Perry Barton
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.

The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Mr. Milton
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...

Two Years Before the Mast
1946
as Gordon Stewart
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...

Three Wise Fools
1946
as Judge Watson
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

Crack-Up
1946
as Dr. Lowell
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Boys' Ranch
1946
as Davis Banton
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

Badman's Territory
1946
as Colonel Farewell / Narrator
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...

Night in Paradise
1946
as Leonides
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
as Dr. Elijah Howe
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
as Mr. Floyd Henderickson
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

Leave Her to Heaven
1945
as Glen Robie
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

The Hidden Eye
1945
as Phillip Treadway
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.

Roughly Speaking
1945
as John Chase Randall
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...

Can't Help Singing
1944
as Senator Frost
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...

Barbary Coast Gent
1944
as Johnny Adair
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...

The Seventh Cross
1944
as Wallau
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 ...

The Eve of St. Mark
1944
as Deckman West
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...

The Hitler Gang
1944
as Cardinal von Faulhaber
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
as Otis Bird
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...

See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
as Brodie S. Griffith
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic trai...

Madame Curie
1943
as Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
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...

Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
as Grover Kendall
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

Salute to the Marines
1943
as Col. John Mason
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 ...

Crime Doctor
1943
as Dr. John Carey
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...

Slightly Dangerous
1943
as Snodgrass
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
as Mr. Macauley
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...

Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
as Johan Bergesen
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force a...

The Navy Comes Through
1942
as Capt. McCall
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

Highways by Night
1942
as Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

The Big Street
1942
as Professor B
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
as Jack Amberson
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Citizen Kane
1941
as Jim W. Gettys
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...

Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
1940
as Mayor (voice)
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
1932
as Waite
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
as Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
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...
One Way Out
1931
as Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
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 ...