Ford Rainey


About

Birth Place
Mountain Home, Idaho, USA
Born
August 08, 1908
Died
July 25, 2005
Cause of Death
Complications From A Series Of Strokes

Biography

Ford Rainey was a film, television, and stage actor whose career stretched across seven decades. Rainey began acting while in high school, and eventually worked as both a radio actor and a touring stage actor in the 1930s and '40s. In 1949, he began his movie acting career in an uncredited role in the James Cagney gangster vehicle "White Heat," which was followed up by steady work in bot...

Biography

Ford Rainey was a film, television, and stage actor whose career stretched across seven decades. Rainey began acting while in high school, and eventually worked as both a radio actor and a touring stage actor in the 1930s and '40s. In 1949, he began his movie acting career in an uncredited role in the James Cagney gangster vehicle "White Heat," which was followed up by steady work in both television and motion pictures throughout the 1950s, including the pivotal role of Bisbee Marshal in the popular 1957 western "3:10 to Yuma." Rainey would continue to secure roles in movies with the era's top stars, including 1966's warship drama "The Sand Pebbles" starring Steve McQueen, as well as recurring roles in television. Subsequently, Rainey would continue to take memorable roles (Mickey, an old buddy of Arthur (Jerry Stiller) in the family sitcom "The King of Queens"), before dying of a stroke at the age of 96.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff (1999)
Marshal Law (1996)
Bed & Breakfast (1992)
The Cellar (1989)
J. Edgar Hoover (1987)
Who Is Julia? (1986)
Halloween II (1981)
Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
2nd Justice
Friendly Fire (1979)
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979)
Mr Meecham
A Family Upside Down (1978)
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1976)
The Judge
Mountain Man (1976)
Abraham Lincoln
Strange New World (1975)
Sirus
Medical Story (1975)
Dr Patterson
Babe (1975)
Dr Tatum
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
Mr Gilbert
The Parallax View (1974)
Manhunter (1974)
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
Like a Crow on a June Bug (1974)
Key West (1973)
Linda (1973)
Glory Boy (1971)
Sheriff [Wes] Coleman
A Howling in the Woods (1971)
Bud Henshaw
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Stanley Mae
The Naked Zoo (1970)
Mr. Golden
My Sweet Charlie (1970)
Treadwell
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
Stand owner
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Harris
Johnny Tiger (1966)
Sam Tiger
Gunpoint (1966)
Emerson
Kings of the Sun (1963)
Ixchel's father
Forty Pounds of Trouble (1963)
Judge
Claudelle Inglish (1961)
Reverend Armstrong
Ada (1961)
Speaker
Dead to the World (1961)
Congressman Keach
Two Rode Together (1961)
Henry Clay
Parrish (1961)
John Donati
Flaming Star (1960)
Doc Phillips
John Paul Jones (1959)
1st Lt. Thomas Simpson
The Last Mile (1959)
Red Kirby, Cell 7
The Badlanders (1958)
Warden
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Marshal
The Human Jungle (1954)
Jones, the older cop
The Robe (1953)
Ship's captain
Perfect Strangers (1950)
Ernest Craig
White Heat (1949)
Zuckie Hommell

Cast (Special)

Sam Hill (1961)
Colonel Tyson (Guest)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Cross of Fire (1989)
Amerika (1987)
Backstairs at the White House (1979)
Captains and the Kings (1976)
Captains and the Kings Part 5 & 6 (1976)

Life Events

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