Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Ray McCarey is a Director and Scriptwriter American born on 6 september 1904 at Los Angeles (USA)

Ray McCarey

Ray McCarey
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name Raymond Benedict McCarey
Nationality USA
Birth 6 september 1904 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 1 december 1948 (at 44 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Raymond Benedict "Ray" McCarey (September 6, 1904 – December 1, 1948) was an American film director. He began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he did work on short films with Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. He also worked with Roscoe Arbuckle, the Three Stooges, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Dorothy Dandridge among many others. Most of his feature film work consisted of "B" pictures and low-budget films. He directed 62 films between 1930 and 1948. He was the brother of director Leo McCarey and was occasionally billed as Raymond McCarey but usually as Ray McCarey.

Biography

Né en 1904 à Los Angeles, Ray McCarey est le frère cadet de Leo McCarey et il suit les traces de ce dernier au cinéma. D'abord assistant réalisateur de Del Lord ou Alfred J. Goulding chez Mack Sennett Comedies, il entre en 1930 à Pathé Exchange où il participe à la réalisation de films musicaux. Son premier court-métrage voit ainsi la première participation au cinéma de Bing Crosby avec le groupe The Rytm Boys.


En 1932, il tourne une série de documentaires sur le sport pour la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer à l'occasion des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1932 qui se déroulent à Los Angeles. C'est la même année qu'il tourne avec Laurel et Hardy un court métrage, Les Deux Vagabonds (Scram!) et réalise avec George Marshall, Les Sans-soucis (Pack Up Your Troubles).


L'année suivante il réalise les trois dernières comédies de Roscoe Arbuckle en tant qu'acteur. Plus de dix ans après l'affaire Arbuckle qui conduit à son interdiction de tourner, ce dernier tente un retour mais décède brutalement en juin 1933.

Ray McCarey n'atteint jamais la notoriété de son frère aîné. Il met en scène les Trois Stooges dans plusieurs de leurs films, poursuit les documentaires sur le sport et la musique (Harry Warren ou Ethel Waters) et tourne quelques westerns ou policiers de série B à petit budget.


Il décède prématurément à l'âge de 44 ans « au terme de plusieurs semaines de maladie ».

Best films

So This Is Washington (1943)
(Director)
Men in Black (1934)
(Director)

Usually with

Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey
(3 films)
Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon
(6 films)
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ray McCarey (41 films)

Display filmography as list

Director

My Son John, 2h2
Directed by Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, Minor Watson, Frank McHugh
Rating55% 2.7551052.7551052.7551052.7551052.755105
In uniform, John and Ben Jefferson, strapping blonds who played high school football, attend Sunday Mass with their parents before leaving for army service in Korea. Their older brother, John sends regrets that he can not join their farewell dinner because of his work for the federal government in Washington.
Good Sam
Good Sam (1948)
, 1h54
Directed by Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring, Clinton Sundberg
Rating62% 3.146713.146713.146713.146713.14671
Sam Clayton is too good for his own good. A sermon by Rev. Daniels persuades him to help others in every way he can, including his wife Lu's good-for-nothing brother, Claude, who's been living with them rent-free for six months, and their neighbors the Butlers, who need a car for a vacation when theirs breaks down.
Strange Triangle, 1h5
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Noir, Crime
Actors Signe Hasso, Preston Foster, Shepperd Strudwick, Roy Roberts, Emory Parnell, Frank Wilcox
Rating61% 3.067123.067123.067123.067123.06712
A bank examiner becomes involved with a couple planning embezzlement, which leads them to murder.
The Falcon's Alibi, 1h1
Directed by Ray McCarey, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett, Jane Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Emory Parnell
Rating62% 3.1457753.1457753.1457753.1457753.145775
After attending a birthday party for the wealthy Gloria Peabody, The Falcon is employed by her secretary to find some missing jewels which she fears she will be blamed for. Before long, a man is murdered, bringing unwelcome police involvement in the case.
Passport to Destiny, 1h5
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Elsa Lanchester, Lenore Aubert, Fritz Feld, Gordon Oliver, Gavin Muir, Lloyd Corrigan
Rating61% 3.0977053.0977053.0977053.0977053.097705
Ella Muggins (Elsa Lanchester) is a Camberwell cleaning woman who is the widow of a Regimental Sergeant Major. One day during the London Blitz, she relates to her friends a story about a "magic eye" charm that her husband obtained during his Army service in India that protected him from all harm. Whilst cleaning her attic, she goes through her husband's effects and finds the charm that she absent-mindedly puts in the pocket of her skirt.
Atlantic City, 1h27
Directed by Ray McCarey
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Constance Moore, Charley Grapewin, Jerry Colonna, Dorothy Dandridge, Adele Mara, Pierre Watkin
Rating60% 3.0471253.0471253.0471253.0471253.047125
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists.
So This Is Washington, 1h4
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Chester Lauck, Minerva Urecal, Alan Mowbray, Barbara Pepper, Sarah Padden, Jimmie Dodd
Rating55% 2.763282.763282.763282.763282.76328
Abner Peabody runs the Jot 'Em Down general store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. When listening to the radio one day, he hears Chester Marshall, head of the Civilian Aid on the War Effort Board, plead to the people and asking for help to come up with inventions and ideas that could be used to improve the life during war times.
A Gentleman at Heart
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cesar Romero, J. Carrol Naish, Carole Landis, Richard Derr, Milton Berle, Rose Hobart
Rating65% 3.279873.279873.279873.279873.27987
Lucky Cullen (Milton Berle) gets into trouble when his boss, bookie Tony Miller (Cesar Romero), finds out that Lucky has bet (and lost) $5000 under a false identity. Tony gives Lucky 24 hours to settle the debt.
Cadet Girl
Cadet Girl (1941)
, 1h8
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Carole Landis, George Montgomery, Shepperd Strudwick, William Tracy, Janis Carter, Robert Lowery
Rating69% 3.479423.479423.479423.479423.47942
A West Point cadet falls in love with a girl who sings in his brother's band.