Charles Ray (actor)
Charles Ray (b. March 15, 1891 in Jacksonville, Illinois - d. November 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) was a silent film star. Extremely popular in a series of films casting him in juvenile roles, primarily rural young men, Ray's career faded as he lost his youthful looks- he also had a reputation of being demanding and having an outsized ego. In 1926, he played the lead in Paris opposite a young Joan Crawford. However, an attempt to switch careers and play sophisticated men-of-the-world was not a success, as was an elaborate and expensive self-produced version of "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (film considered lost) and he finished his career in small parts, dying from an infected tooth at the age of 52.