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Ray Mayer was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Mayer's career in acting began with his roles in various films like "The Arizonian" (1935), the Fred Astaire musical "Follow the Fleet" (1936) and "I Married a Doctor" (1936). He also appeared in the Harry Carey comedy "The Last Outlaw" (1936). His film career continued throughout the thirties in productions like the drama...

Filmography

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Mr. Soft Touch (1949)

Victor Christopher

High Wall (1948)

Kilroy Was Here (1947)

Sweet and Low-Down (1944)

King of Chinatown (1939)

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High Wall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Escape Reality

Arizonian, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Sorry To Interfere

Biography

Ray Mayer was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Mayer's career in acting began with his roles in various films like "The Arizonian" (1935), the Fred Astaire musical "Follow the Fleet" (1936) and "I Married a Doctor" (1936). He also appeared in the Harry Carey comedy "The Last Outlaw" (1936). His film career continued throughout the thirties in productions like the dramatic adaptation "Make Way For Tomorrow" (1937) with Victor Moore, "Racing Lady" (1937) and "Swing It, Sailor" (1937). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in "Top of the Town" (1937), the Kay Francis musical "Comet Over Broadway" (1938) and "King of Chinatown" (1939). Mayer was most recently credited in the comedy "Mr. Soft Touch" (1949) with Glenn Ford. Mayer passed away in November 1948 at the age of 47.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Mr. Soft Touch (1949)

Victor Christopher

High Wall (1948)

Kilroy Was Here (1947)

Sweet and Low-Down (1944)

King of Chinatown (1939)

Broadway Serenade (1939)

Comet over Broadway (1938)

Prison Nurse (1938)

Swing It, Sailor! (1938)

Garden of the Moon (1938)

Top of the Town (1937)

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Meet the Missus (1937)

Racing Lady (1937)

Hideaway (1937)

We Who Are About to Die (1937)

Bright Boy Schultz

I Married a Doctor (1936)

Miles Bjornstam

Follow the Fleet (1936)

The Farmer in the Dell (1936)

The Last Outlaw (1936)

Special Investigator (1936)

Village Tale (1935)

The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

To Beat the Band (1935)

His Family Tree (1935)

Terrance Gilligan

Powdersmoke Range (1935)

The Arizonian (1935)

Frank McCloskey

Break of Hearts (1935)

Jealousy (1934)

Call It Luck (1934)

"Brainwave" Flynn

The Hell Cat (1934)

Death on the Diamond (1934)

Young and Beautiful (1934)

The Gay Bride (1934)

Writer (Feature Film)

Another Face (1935)

Cast (Short)

Mayer and Evans in "The Cowboy and the Girl" (1928)

Life Events

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High Wall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Escape Reality Brain trauma patient, war vet and dad Kenet (Robert Taylor), institutionalized for killing his wife and believing he's guilty, with guard Delaney (Ray Mayer) then doctor Ann Lorrison (Audrey Totter), complex tensions in director Curtis Bernhardt's High Wall, 1947.

Arizonian, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Sorry To Interfere McCloskey and Keeler (Ray Mayer, Joseph Sauers) and co. hold up the Yuma stage, but only to bring Kitty (Margot Grahame) back to their employer, the crooked sheriff, whom she’s fleeing, when the leading man (Richard Dix) introduces himself, in The Arizonian, 1935.

Arizonian, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Got Any Other Alibis? The band led by Mccloskey (Ray Mayer) is shooting up Silver City so the frustrated mayor (Francis Ford) installs visitor Clay (Richard Dix) as marshal, only to be undermined when the sitting sheriff (Louis Calhern) backs the bad guys in court, in The Arizonian, 1935.

High Wall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Me About Those Headaches Brain-injured combat vet Kenet (Robert Taylor) taken to his cell, convinced he must have killed his wife, while doctors (Morris Ankrum, Moroni Olsen, Warner Anderson and Audrey Totter as Ann Lorrison) stick to prodecure, early in director Curtis Bernhardt's High Wall, 1947.

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