Billy Gray - Turner Classic Movies

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Billy Gray became an actor when he was just eight years old. In his early acting career, Gray appeared in such films as "Specter of the Rose" (1946) with Judith Anderson, the Pat O'Brien drama "Fighting Father Dunne" (1948) and the Dennis O'Keefe drama "Abandoned" (1949). He also appeared in the comedy "Father Is a Bachelor" (1950) with William Holden, the Vaughn Monroe western "Sin...

Filmography

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Little Dorrit (1988)

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)

Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)

Petty Officer Fred Twining

Two for the Seesaw (1962)

The Explosive Generation (1961)

Bobby Herman, Jr.

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Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) MacNamara's Band

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Don't Have Shoes!

Biography

Billy Gray became an actor when he was just eight years old. In his early acting career, Gray appeared in such films as "Specter of the Rose" (1946) with Judith Anderson, the Pat O'Brien drama "Fighting Father Dunne" (1948) and the Dennis O'Keefe drama "Abandoned" (1949). He also appeared in the comedy "Father Is a Bachelor" (1950) with William Holden, the Vaughn Monroe western "Singing Guns" (1950) and the drama "Between Midnight and Dawn" (1950) with Mark Stevens. His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like the sci-fi motion picture "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) with Michael Rennie, "Talk About a Stranger" (1952) and the drama "All I Desire" (1953) with Barbara Stanwyck. He also appeared in "The Seven Little Foys" (1955) with Bob Hope. Gray was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor (Continuing Character) In a Primetime Emmy Award for "Father Knows Best" in 1959. He also was featured in the TV movie "Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil" (NBC, 1984). Gray most recently appeared on "Child Stars: Their Story" (A&E Network, 2000-01).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Little Dorrit (1988)

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)

Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)

Petty Officer Fred Twining

Two for the Seesaw (1962)

The Explosive Generation (1961)

Bobby Herman, Jr.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Scarlet Hour (1956)

The Seven Little Foys (1955)

Bryan "Brynie" Foy

The Outlaw Stallion (1954)

The Girl Next Door (1953)

All I Desire (1953)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

Wesley Winfield

Talk About a Stranger (1952)

Robert ["Bud"] Fontaine, Jr.

Gene Autry and the Mounties (1951)

Her First Romance (1951)

The Guy Who Came Back (1951)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Wesley Winfield

Jim Thorpe--All-American (1951)

Jim Thorpe, as a boy

Kill the Umpire (1950)

Three Little Words (1950)

The Good Humor Man (1950)

The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

Mister 880 (1950)

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)

Singing Guns (1950)

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Sierra Passage (1950)

Young Johnny Yorke

In a Lonely Place (1950)

Abandoned (1949)

The Undercover Man (1949)

Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)

Lust for Gold (1949)

The House Across the Street (1949)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer: Boris Karloff (1949)

The Judge Steps Out (1949)

The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

Fighting Father Dunne (1948)

Leather Gloves (1948)

Driftwood (1947)

The Fabulous Texan (1947)

Little Mister Jim (1947)

The Gangster (1947)

Rendezvous with Annie (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)

Cluny Brown (1946)

Specter of the Rose (1946)

Throw a Saddle on a Star (1946)

Suspense (1946)

One Exciting Week (1946)

An Angel Comes to Brooklyn (1945)

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Man of Courage (1943)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Delta (1996)

Cast (Special)

Child Stars: Their Story (2000)

Lauren Chapin: The E! True Hollywood Story (1999)

Father Knows Best: Home For Christmas (1977)

Father Knows Best: The Father Knows Best Reunion (1977)

Bud Anderson; Son

Cast (Short)

Our Old Car (1946)

The Little Maestro (1937)

Life Events

Videos

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) MacNamara's Band With his informally adopted clan (Gary and Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow and Mary Jane Saunders), drifter and singer Johnny (William Holden, dubbed by the popular singer Buddy Clark, who had died in a plane crash by the time the picture was released) offers the 1889 Irish music-hall standard (by Shamus O’Connor and John J. Stamford) , producing an unexpected job offer (from Sig Ruman), in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Don't Have Shoes! Still not committed to the Chalotte kids (Gary Gray with Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow and Mary Jane Saunders) who have mostly adopted him, drifter-singer Johnny (William Holden) is assailed by do-gooder Prudence (second billed Colleen Gray, in her first scene) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Kinda Steer Clear Of Houses After an opening scene singing in blackface in a minstrel-medicine show, in which his colleague (Charles Winninger) wound up jailed, Johnny (William Holden) takes up fishing and meets the Chalotte kids (Mary Jane Saunders, Gary Gray and Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

All I Desire (1953) -- (Movie Clip) What A Dramatic Entrance Douglas Sirk directs Barbara Stanwyck as Vaudevillian Naomi, returning mostly unexpected to the family she left ten years earlier, who believe she’s a legit actress, Lori Nelson the daughter who sent for her, Marcia Henderson the elder, Billy Gray the son, Richard Carlson the surprised husband, in All I Desire,1953.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Gort, Baringa! Bobby (Billy Gray), suspicious because his house-mate “Mr. Carpenter” (really alien Klaatu, Michael Rennie) borrowed his flashlight on false premises, follows him and discovers he really is the missing spaceman who landed in Washington, D.C., in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) What Other Terrors Can He Unleash? Klaatu (Michael Rennie), frustrated in his efforts to convene a meeting of world leaders, escaped from a military hospital, goes incognito in Washington, D.C., at a boarding house meeting Bobby (Billy Gray), his mom (Patricia Neal) and others, in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) A Problem In Celestial Mechanics Alien Klaatu (Michael Rennie) spending the day minding his new house-mate Bobby (Billy Gray), visiting the space ship, which he dares not say belongs to him, then dropping by the Washington, D.C. home of scientist Barnhardt, whom he hopes to approach, in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

Fighting Father Dunne (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Know They're Cold And Hungry Well established as cold, hungry and mistreated in 1905 St. Louis, newsboys Jimmy and Tony (Donn Gift, Billy Cummings) introduce Pat O'Brien, the title character, who soon finds Chip (Billy Gray) and gets his own sister (Ruth Donnelly) to help, in the fact-based Fighting Father Dunne, 1948.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Original Trailer) Original theatrical trailer for hit 195 real-world cold-war science fiction thriller The Day The Earth Stood Still, from Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.

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