Aldo Ray

Birthday: 25 September 1926, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name: Aldo DaRe

Height: 183 cm

Aldo DaRe was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima.While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Saturday's Hero (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was one of the reminiscing lovers in George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz''s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991).Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991. Show less «

In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in.

Ow, John Wayne. I never considered him much of an actor, much less a director. Wayne was just a pers...Show more »

Ow, John Wayne. I never considered him much of an actor, much less a director. Wayne was just a personality - I mean, I'm a personality, too, but he was all personality. I refused to call him 'Duke' or brown-nose around him like everybody else. One day he was telling me how to do a scene a certain way, and I said, 'John, maybe that's the way you'd do it, but it's not the way I'm gonna do it.' 'Hey, I've been in this business for 40 years and I was a star for most of that time.' I said, 'I don't care how long you've been in the business - you've never learned a fucking thing.' He looked at me and turned around and walked away ... He kind of admired me, and we drank together every night after work. But during work, we avoided each other. That picture shot for a long time - three months. Show less «

I lost it all. And I am very, very bitter about it ... The biggest mistake I ever made was discoveri...Show more »

I lost it all. And I am very, very bitter about it ... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. 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. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me. Show less «

[on Sweet Savage (1979)] I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about - a kind of half-assed adve...Show more »

[on Sweet Savage (1979)] I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about - a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time - a nice location in Arizona - and I picked up a few thousand bucks. 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. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it. Show less «

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