Ray Mayer

AKA:
0.3757

1901-04-24

Lexington, Nebraska, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {40}

Tom Delaney

1947-12-17 6.25

High Wall

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lo ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dopey Williams

1936-02-20 6.8

Follow the Fleet

When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Conni ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Victor Christopher (Uncredited)

1949-07-28 6.8

Mr. Soft Touch

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mo ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Dutch

1936-05-08 5.167

Special Investigator

A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Husky Stone

1938-02-04 5

Swing It, Sailor!

Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Mr. Bland

1935-12-13 6.6

Seven Keys to Baldpate

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Brogan

1938-12-03 5

Comet Over Broadway

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Gabby

1935-06-15 4.5

Village Tale

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy. ...
Genre :Drama

Jackpot

1938-03-02 5.1

Prison Nurse

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines a ...
Genre :Drama

John White

1937-06-04 4

Meet the Missus

A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest. ...
Genre :Comedy

Potatoes

1939-03-17 5.813

King of Chinatown

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Evans

1934-06-16 6

The Hell Cat

Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and ...
Genre :Drama

Whitey

1936-07-27 5

M'Liss

The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher. ...
Genre :Drama

Eddie Baxter

1937-08-13 4

Hideaway

A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out. ...
Genre :Comedy

Circus Clown

1935-09-13 5.2

The Return Of Peter Grimm

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Bright Boy Schultz

1937-01-08 6.8

We Who Are About to Die

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

McCrory

1935-11-23 0

To Beat the Band

An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Musician

1938-09-23 6.2

Garden of the Moon

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is th ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Bat Gilligan

1935-09-29 4.5

His Family Tree

A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years. ...
Genre :Comedy

Robert Cooper

1937-05-09 7.528

Make Way for Tomorrow

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2006-07-12 0

Tied Hands

The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must ...
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Piano Player (uncredited)

1939-03-11 6

The Oklahoma Kid

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land w ...
Genre :Western, History

Mr. Woods (uncredited)

1939-04-07 6.2

Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Music

Spike

1936-03-27 0

The Farmer in the Dell

An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star. ...
Genre :Comedy

Warbler

1937-01-12 5.3

Racing Lady

A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Detective

1945-11-22 6

Snafu

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a ...
Genre :Comedy

Henchman Joe

1936-06-19 5.5

The Last Outlaw

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired assistant s ...
Genre :Western

Himself

1928-08-01 1

When East Meets West

Comic cowboy piano player Ray Mayer and blonde singer Edith Evans perform "Henry's Made a Lady out of Lizzie," "It All Belongs to Me," "Sleep, Little One, Sleep" and "Side by Side." ...
Genre :Music

Tyler

1935-08-20 5

Hot Tip

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies. ...
Genre :Comedy

Miles Bjornstam

1936-04-25 4.7

I Married a Doctor

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople. ...
Genre :Drama

Henchman Frank McClosky

1935-06-27 0

The Arizonian

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position ...
Genre :Western, Adventure, Music, Romance

'Brainwave' Flynn

1934-07-09 6

Call It Luck

A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby win ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure, Comedy

Himself - Pianist and Singer

1928-04-20 1

The Cowboy and the Girl

The scene is a parlor out West, with Ray Mayer sitting at the piano in is cowboy duds - hat, scarf, and chaps. He plays a little barrel-house music and then introduces Edith Evans, who enters wearing ...
Genre :Comedy

Roger

1937-04-17 5.2

Top of the Town

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until som ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Photographer (uncredited)

1934-12-14 5.722

The Gay Bride

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Song Promoter at Music Publisher (uncredited)

1935-05-31 4.938

Break of Hearts

Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Chan Bell

1935-09-27 0

Powdersmoke Range

Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it. ...
Genre :Western

Taxi Driver

1938-03-04 6.9

Merrily We Live

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catch ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Hook

1934-11-23 4.7

Jealousy

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked ou ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1933-10-18 0

The Big Benefit

A grab-bag of singers and dancers, featuring New York-based performers such as Rae Samuels, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, The Four Mullen Sisters, and the team of Evans & Mayer. Dancers Pops & Louie (Alb ...
Genre :Music