[5], Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "He took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too.

He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. When Aldo was 4 years old, the family moved to Crockett, California, where his father started working at a sugar refinery. The English actors have classical training. [7] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955). And they loved it. He enrolled at the ‘John Swett High School,’ where he was part of the school’s football team. He drank drank drank. "Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. His brother, Mario Da Re (1933-2010), lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954.

‘Columbia Pictures’ had signed a 7-year contract with Aldo and thus refused to release him from the contract. Aldo Ray was born in 1920s. [2], Brad Pitt's character in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine.". Aldo was signed on a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for screen testing. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result.

Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. "[15], Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen (1955) as The Wreck but walked off the set claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[16].

He grew up with five brothers and one sister. Ray was profiled in Sight & Sound which said: Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve- and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968). A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website.

(Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right winger". "[5] He admitted being unhappy with his career saying "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[5].

[9] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune, as his ex-wife Johanna Ray was the casting director, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart due to ongoing issues with alcoholism. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.

"I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[25]. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters", he later said.

He says after two films with Cukor "I never needed direction again. The first test went badly but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. If you're sick you don't belong here.'

In 1989, he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his throat which Ray attributed to excessive smoking and drinking. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life. Ray said later: I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about--a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? He played the role of ‘Andy Hookens,’ a tough solder, in the film ‘Battle Cry.’ Although the film was a big hit and also became one of Aldo’s best-known films, it made people typecast him as a tough redneck. [citation needed], Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994), and the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray. During the last stages of his career, Ray made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. The film was a box-office hit - probably the most popular movie Ray ever made - although it led to him being typecast. "[8], Columbia picked up their option on Ray's services, and signed him to a seven-year contract. And one of them was Aldo Ray.

That made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. However the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[19].

You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me--'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'--but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. Are you sick?

He died on April 18, 2010 in California.

You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[5]. Aldo Ray is interviewed in this rare 1986 TV appearance with cable host Skip E Lowe, joined by actress Sandy Brooke and director Philip Marcus. By 1976, Ray was broke. After the war was over, Aldo studied political science at the ‘University of California’ and aimed at becoming a politician.

Aldo DaRe was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor of film and television. Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally.

Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino, and Louis) and one sister (Regina).

Mario DaRe was born on May 21, 1933 in Contra Costa County, California, USA as Mario Silvio Da Re.

In a weird turn of events, the director of the film, David Miller, liked Aldo more, due to his voice.

"And I said, 'thank you, good bye.

In mid-1950, the ‘Columbia Studios’ film ‘Saturday’s Hero’ required an athlete to be included in its cast. [8] However Ray still got his union pension and benefits. He was an actor, known for You Bet Your Life (1950). Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.

His brother, Mario Da Re (1933-2010), lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954. [11], Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused, because Columbia had made a profit on his loan outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.

They were brilliant.[1]. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as gruff and gravelly rednecks. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College, then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[14]. (His brother, Mario Da Re (1933–2010), lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954. The economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and America began the period called the Great Depression. The second one was done opposite Jeff Donnell, who Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.

You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he’d been around the block more than once. [28] He appeared in two more higher-profile films, in Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987) and Blood Red (1989), both in supporting roles that emphasized his Italian heritage.

He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000. Looking for some great streaming picks?

He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. Though the latter part of his career was marked by appearances in low-budget B-movies and exploitation films, he still starred occasionally in higher-profile features, including The Secret of NIMH (1982) and The Sicilian (1987). Aldo drove his bother to the audition. Ray was given 5% of the profits which he later estimated at having earned him $70,000.[8]. He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round and Welcome to Hard Times.

Aldo was a strong child and excelled in sports while growing up. In 1955, Aldo delivered one of the biggest hits of his acting career. He was invited to audition for the film ‘The Marrying Kind.’ In the comedy–drama film, where he initially auditioned for a small role, Aldo ended up getting the lead role. Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. Ray doesn’t have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. "[10] He said he was "almost independently wealthy" having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film.

Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. "[5] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will. He dropped out of college to become a constable, but that did not work out for him. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. This led to him being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. He exploited me, yeah... but I was ripe for it.

Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino and Louis) and one sister (Regina). His wage was $200 a week.[8]. Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test.

I'd rather live one good year than ten more crappy years.

His athletic build and gruff, raspy voice saw him frequently typecast in "tough guy" roles throughout his career, which lasted well into the late 1980s. "In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. Aldo’s acting career picked up pace, and he starred in many films throughout the 1950s, such as ‘Men in War,’ ‘We’re No Angels,’ and ‘Four Desperate Men.’ He was known for his robust on-screen presence.

Instead Ray appeared in an adaptation of David Goodis's novel Nightfall (1957), directed by Jacques Tourneur and The Naked and the Dead (1958), an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel, directed by Raoul Walsh. He was initially married to Shirley Green. By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia Ray was earning $750 a week.

In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection. Aldo Ray, Actor: The Secret of NIMH.

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