Ray Collins
Acting
Born: December 10, 1889 · Sacramento, California, USA
Died: July 11, 1965 (aged 75)
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Citizen Kane
1941
Touch of Evil
1958
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
The Heiress
1949
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Desperate Hours
1955
The Fountainhead
1949
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
Perry Mason
1957
A Double Life
1947
Photos (3)
Movies (84)
Citizen Kane
Jim W. Gettys
Touch of Evil
District Attorney Adair
The Best Years of Our Lives
Mr. Milton
The Magnificent Ambersons
Jack Amberson
The Desperate Hours
Sheriff Masters
Leave Her to Heaven
Glen Robie
The Heiress
Jefferson Almond
The Fountainhead
Roger Enright
Summer Stock
Jasper G. Wingait
Good Sam
Rev. Daniels
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Beemish
Madame Curie
Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Never Say Goodbye
Dr. Bailey
The Racket
Mortimer Welsh
The Man from Colorado
Big Ed Carter
Badman's Territory
Colonel Farewell / Narrator
Vengeance Valley
Arch Strobie
A Double Life
Victor Donlan
The Seventh Cross
Wallau
Command Decision
Maj. Desmond Lansing
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Matthew 'Matt' Simpson
Trail Street
Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Athena
Mr. Tremaine
Francis
Colonel Hooker
Invitation
Warren Pritchard
Hideout
Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
See Here, Private Hargrove
Brodie S. Griffith
Two Years Before the Mast
Gordon Stewart
Texas Lady
Mica Ralston (rancher)
Dreamboat
Timothy Stone
The Human Comedy
Mr. Macauley
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Alfred Metcalfe
Slightly Dangerous
Snodgrass
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Johan Bergesen
Column South
Storey
Boys' Ranch
Davis Banton
You're in the Navy Now
Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
Rose Marie
Insp. Appleby
It Happens Every Spring
Alfred Greenleaf
Barbary Coast Gent
Johnny Adair
The Big Street
Professor B
Bad for Each Other
Dan Reasonover
Homecoming
Lt. Col. Avery Silver
Crime Doctor
Dr. John Carey
Free For All
A B Blair
The Return of Monte Cristo
Emil Blanchard
The Miracle on 34th Street
Judge Harper
For the Love of Mary
Harvey Elwood
Whistling in Brooklyn
Grover Kendall
The Hitler Gang
Cardinal von Faulhaber
Kill the Umpire
Jonah Evans
Up Goes Maisie
Mr. Floyd Henderickson
Young Man with Ideas
Edmund Jethrow
Crack-Up
Dr. Lowell
I Want You
Judge Kenneth Turner
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
Jonathan Parker
Three Wise Fools
Judge Watson
Paid in Full
Dr. Fredericks
Miss Susie Slagle's
Dr. Elijah Howe
I'll Give My Life
John Bradford
Night in Paradise
Leonides
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Fred Houlihan
The Desert Song
Gen. Birabeau
The Red Stallion
Perry Barton
Reunion in Reno
Judge Thomas Kneeland
Spoilers of the Forest
Eric Warren
The Eve of St. Mark
Deckman West
Main Street Today
Otis Bird
Highways by Night
Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
Can't Help Singing
Senator Frost
The Hidden Eye
Phillip Treadway
Salute to the Marines
Col. John Mason
The Kid from Left Field
Fred F. Whacker
The Go-Getter
J.P. Miller (sometimes called J.B. Miller)
The Reformer and the Redhead
Commodore Parker
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Jonathan Parker
The Navy Comes Through
Capt. McCall
Roughly Speaking
John Chase Randall
Viva la clase media
1980
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Harris Clayton
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Waite
The Swordsman
MacCoppin
Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men
Mayor (voice)
Words & Music
Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
TV Shows (9)
Perry Mason
Lieutenant Tragg · 271 eps
Father Knows Best
Dean Wilson · 1 eps
Climax!
Jerome Harris · 1 eps
Studio One
Gen. Sam Woolery · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Herbert Brenner · 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Evan Gracie · 1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Callicott · 1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Judge Harper · 1 eps
Cavalcade of America
Daniel Webster · 1 eps