John Wray
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John Wray (13 February 1887 - 5 April 1940) was an American character actor of stage and screen.
Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly made an indelible impression on the era in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in The Czar of Broadway (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of The Miracle Man (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. During this period he was one of the many actors mentioned for the title role in Dracula (1931).
Wray's roles grew increasingly smaller as the decade progressed but he was very visible as the starving farmer threatening to kill Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and as the warden in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937).
Other films include Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Frisco Kid (1935), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Boys Town (1938), Each Dawn I Die (1939), The Cat and the Canary (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.029 |
| Birthday | 1887-02-12 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | John Griffith Malloy, |
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
7.8/818
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is dest...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1932
Doctor X
6/81
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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Doctor X
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.5/368
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1940
Remember the Night
7.3/111
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...
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Remember the Night
1939
Each Dawn I Die
6.8/54
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re...
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Each Dawn I Die
1940
The Man from Dakota
5.3/3
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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The Man from Dakota
1932
High Pressure
6/7
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is...
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High Pressure
1937
You Only Live Once
7.128/173
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is fr...
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You Only Live Once
1931
Safe in Hell
6.8/40
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...
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Safe in Hell
1933
Lone Cowboy
3.5/2
Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scoote...
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Lone Cowboy
1938
Spawn of the North
5.6/9
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Spawn of the North
1934
Green Eyes
5/4
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to...
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Green Eyes
1934
The Big Shakedown
5.6/14
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical prod...
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The Big Shakedown
1932
The Rich Are Always with Us
5.2/6
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
1939
Blackmail
6.4/7
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Blackmail
1938
Tenth Avenue Kid
5/1
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his f...
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Tenth Avenue Kid
1935
Frisco Kid
6.8/8
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of t...
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Frisco Kid
1932
The Mouthpiece
5.9/9
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
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The Mouthpiece
1932
The Match King
6.6/5
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipula...
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The Match King
1938
What Price Safety!
6/1
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
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What Price Safety!
1931
Quick Millions
7.1/10
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill...
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Quick Millions
1929
New York Nights
4.8/5
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being...
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New York Nights
1932
Miss Pinkerton
5.7/10
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to fer...
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Miss Pinkerton
1932
Central Park
5.2/6
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again i...
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Central Park
1938
A Man to Remember
6.5/6
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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A Man to Remember
1935
Ladies Love Danger
0/0
A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartm...
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Ladies Love Danger
1936
A Man Betrayed
6/1
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but...
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A Man Betrayed
1937
Circus Girl
4/1
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Circus Girl
1935
Atlantic Adventure
5.5/2
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later,...
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Atlantic Adventure
1934
The Defense Rests
7/7
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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The Defense Rests
1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo
5/2
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to c...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
1938
Gangs of New York
4.889/9
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Gangs of New York
1938
The Black Doll
5.3/3
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner...
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The Black Doll
1933
After Tonight
6.3/6
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of th...
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After Tonight
1934
I Am a Thief
6/4
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
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I Am a Thief
1935
Bad Boy
5/1
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for the...
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Bad Boy
1934
Fifteen Wives
1/1
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes in...
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Fifteen Wives
1939
Almost a Gentleman
6/1
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Almost a Gentleman
1930
The Czar of Broadway
0/0
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, th...
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The Czar of Broadway
1932
The Miracle Man
5.7/6
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and use...
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The Miracle Man
1934
The Captain Hates the Sea
6.5/4
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...
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The Captain Hates the Sea
1939
Risky Business
6/1
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Risky Business
1934
Most Precious Thing in Life
5.2/5
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald...
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Most Precious Thing in Life
1937
The Devil Is Driving
5/1
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodr...
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The Devil Is Driving
1934
Bombay Mail
6/1
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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Bombay Mail
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
5.8/10
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1937
We Who Are About to Die
6.8/4
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspic...
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We Who Are About to Die
1939
The Cat and the Canary
7/76
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Org...
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The Cat and the Canary
1936
The Devil Is a Sissy
6.9/11
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
6.3/5
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul,...
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1935
Men Without Names
6/1
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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Men Without Names
1936
Sworn Enemy
5.3/3
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Sworn Enemy
1939
Pacific Liner
5.2/11
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the shi...
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Pacific Liner
1939
Gone with the Wind
7.932/4092
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
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Gone with the Wind
1939
Golden Boy
6.4/28
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangste...
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Golden Boy
1938
Professor Beware
6.1/4
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 po...
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Professor Beware
1937
On Such a Night
0/0
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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On Such a Night
1931
Silence
7.5/2
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to pr...
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Silence
1939
Smuggled Cargo
0/0
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association presi...
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Smuggled Cargo
1936
A Son Comes Home
1/1
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
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A Son Comes Home
1936
The President's Mystery
5.3/7
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent...
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The President's Mystery
1940
Swiss Family Robinson
5.4/24
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves...
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Swiss Family Robinson
1937
The Women Men Marry
5.5/1
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Women Men Marry
1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
7.8/210
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s false...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.5/8
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1938
Making the Headlines
0/0
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban tow...
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Making the Headlines
1940
Know Your Money
9/1
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counte...
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Know Your Money
1932
The Death Kiss
5.3/32
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...
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The Death Kiss
1937
Outcast
0/0
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
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Outcast
1938
Boys Town
6.7/90
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being tre...
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Boys Town
1939
Winter Carnival
6/1
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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Winter Carnival
1934
The Crosby Case
4.2/4
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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The Crosby Case
1935
Stranded
5.8/5
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded
1936
Poor Little Rich Girl
6.6/19
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...
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Poor Little Rich Girl
1934
I'll Fix It
0/0
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in w...
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I'll Fix It
1935
The Great Hotel Murder
6/3
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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The Great Hotel Murder
1934
Embarrassing Moments
0/0
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in...
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Embarrassing Moments
1938
Crime Takes a Holiday
0/0
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
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Crime Takes a Holiday
1940
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
4/2
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambli...
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