Aldo Ray
Gender: Male
Born: 25th September 1926
Died: 27th March 1991
Nationality: United States of America, Italy
TV programs: The Houndcats
Movies: Battle Cry, Nightfall, The Green Berets, The Marrying Kind, Miss Sadie Thompson, Pat and Mike, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, We're No Angels, Nightmare in the Sun, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, Riot on Sunset Strip, The Power, The Glove, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Don't Go Near the Park, Welcome to Hard Times, God's Little Acre, Evils of the Night, Seven Alone, Biohazard, The Naked and the Dead, Men in War, Dynamite Brothers, Inside Out, Blood Red, The Siege of Pinchgut, Psychic Killer, Terror Night, Centerfold Girls, Death Dimension, Star Slammer, Drug Runners, Hollywood Cop, The Father Kino Story, Kill a Dragon, Bog, The Bad Bunch, The Secret of NIMH, Gone with the West
Aldo Ray (born Aldo DaRe; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor.
Ray was born in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, to an Italian family of five brothers and one sister. His brother Mario lettered in football at USC in the years 1952-54. In 1944, at the age of eighteen, Aldo Ray entered the Navy, where he served as a frogman until 1946 and saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17.
Upon leaving the Navy, Ray entered the University of California at Berkeley, but his studies there were brief. Shortly after leaving Berkeley, Ray settled in Crockett, CA with his first wife Shirley Green. They had one child, a daughter named Claire DaRe, and Aldo was even elected the 12th Township Constable of Crockett, a small bedroom community just north of San Francisco.
While constable of Crockett, CA, Aldo drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Saturday's Hero (1951). Director David Miller was more interested in Aldo, because, it is rumored, of his voice, than in his brother, and hired him for the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed. Columbia Pictures wasted no time in signing Ray to an exclusive contract, and despite having no acting
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