TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Ray Collins.
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Birthdate: December 10, 1889
Death date: July 11, 1965
Ray Collins
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
No Reviews
1
1940s
2.5704
46
1950s
2.1729
27
1960s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.3996
2.3996
Ray Collins Movie Rankings
1
4.0000Newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, speaking a single word: "Rosebud". A reporter tries to piece together the puzzle of Kane's life by contacting old acquaintances and find the meaning of his dying word. ...more about Citizen Kane
DVD from $11.49
(13 sellers)
2
3.6103A Mexican government investigator and his young American wife put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when they become embroiled in a frame-up planned by the town's chief investigator. ...more about Touch of Evil
DVD from $8.89
(11 sellers)
3
3.5152Three American servicemen return home to Boone City after the war, to find their lives irrevocably changed by their military experience. ...more about Best Years of Our Lives
DVD from $4.86
(13 sellers)
4
2.9887
The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. ...more about Magnificent Ambersons
DVD from $4.89
(10 sellers)
5
2.8902
Dan Hilliard is a comfortable upper-middle-class executive with a wife and two children and a pleasant suburban home. His world seems quite in order, quite predictable. ...more about Desperate Hours
DVD from $4.94
(10 sellers)
6
2.8690
In 1840's New York Catherine lives with her father, Dr. Sloper. Her mother died some years before, and Dr. Sloper still idolizers her, and never misses an opportunity to compare her daughter to her -- a comparison the daughter can never win. ...more about Heiress
DVD from $5.95
(13 sellers)
7
2.8583
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. ...more about Double Life
DVD from $9.59
(7 sellers)
8
2.8369
Richard Harland, a young writer, meets a beautiful woman, Ellen, on a train. They fall in love and are married. Richard gradually comes to realize that his wife is insane with jealousy. ...more about Leave Her to Heaven
DVD from $4.86
(12 sellers)
9
2.7428
As a favor to her actress sister Abigail, New England farmer Jane Falbury allows a group of actors use her barn as a theater for their play. In return, the cast and crew have to help her with the farm chores. ...more about Summer Stock
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
10
2.7213
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Pinks is a shy busboy and Gloria only goes out with men who are loaded. ...more about Big Street
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.6766
Homer Macauley remains in a small town looking after his widowed mother and younger brother. Homer's older brother is fighting the war in Europe. ...more about Human Comedy
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.5902
Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. ...more about Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
DVD from $11.64
(12 sellers)
13
2.5859
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. ...more about Man from Colorado
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
14
2.5239
Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking. ...more about Fountainhead
DVD from $12.71
(14 sellers)
15
2.5204
Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town; but after the Nazi occupation, German abuses lead Erik to form a Resistance group. ...more about Commandos Strike at Dawn
DVD from $25.99
(1 sellers)
16
2.4291
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be suicidal, and heads for New York where she gets a make over. ...more about Slightly Dangerous
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.4139
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. ...more about Crack-Up
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.3835
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. ...more about Seventh Cross
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.3774
General Dennis of the US Force in England in World War II finds that he must order his planes deeper and deeper into Germany to prevent the production of military jet planes that will turn the tide of battle to the Germans. ...more about Command Decision
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.3524
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. ...more about Solid Gold Cadillac
DVD from $5.99
(2 sellers)
21
2.3410
An experimental steam-powered vessel sets off on its maiden voyage with an inexperienced Naval officer at the helm. ...more about You're in the Navy Now
DVD from $7.99
(9 sellers)
22
2.2556
Charles Stewart, the "Pilgrim" owner's playboy son, finds himself shanghaied on his father's ship commanded by cruel Captain Thompson. When scurvy breaks out he leads a mutiny and is slapped in irons. Floggings and torture abound. ...more about Two Years Before the Mast
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.1994
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. ...more about Vengeance Valley
DVD from $1.99
(12 sellers)
24
2.1620
A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. ...more about It Happens Every Spring
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.1355
Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. But when she goes to "learn to be a lady", she meets outlaw trapper James Duval, who also falls in love with her. ...more about Rose Marie
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.9177
It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O'Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. All three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in a single house as bachelors. ...more about Three Wise Fools
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.8173
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications. ...more about Barbary Coast Gent
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.8173
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. ...more about See Here
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.7807
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. ...more about Badman's Territory
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.4993
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his ...more about Francis
DVD from $12.79
(8 sellers)
32
1.3776
The Kettles leave their ultra modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Nothing radioactive shows up except Pa's war-surplus overalls. These make car horns honk and light bulbs flash. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. ...more about Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
DVD from $12.79
(10 sellers)
33
1.3698
Dim-witted blowhard, Melvin G. Ashton, is a US Senator who wants to be President. He hires Lew Gibson, a talented PR man who gets Ashton in newsreels and on the front page, never thinking he'll win. ...more about Senator Was Indiscreet
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.0397
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. ...more about Racket
DVD from $28.99
(12 sellers)
35
Jane Langley has always done all she can for her selfish sibling Nancy. When both sisters fall in love with handsome Bill Prentice, Jane graciously steps aside. ...more about Paid in Full
- Not Available on DVD
36
There is no way to write a "spoiler"---is there actually somebody somewhere who, ten minutes into this 1950's film, wouldn't know where it is going and will end up---since it is a strictly written-by-the-numbers corruption and redemption meller that ...more about Bad for Each Other
- Not Available on DVD
37
Based on the actual "Boy's Ranch" located in Oldham County, Texas northwest of Amarillo, Texas. ...more about Boys' Ranch
- Not Available on DVD
38
As Lt. Jed Sayre struggles to prevent pre-Civil War tensions and a racist commanding officer from triggering war between the U.S. Cavalry and Navajo Indians, he finds his efforts are being undermined by the machinations of Confederate sympathizers. ...more about Column South
- Not Available on DVD
39
Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country's leading criminal psychologist. When he is hit on the head (by someone from his past) he suddenly remembers his previous life as a criminal. ...more about Crime Doctor
- Not Available on DVD
41
Clifton Webb, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter (Anne Francis) to stop it. ...more about Dreamboat
- Not Available on DVD
49
Rich, nerdish Tommy Van Steel seldom leaves his home gadget workshop, but somehow has become engaged to socialite Ellen Cromwell, who treats him badly. ...more about Highways by Night
- Not Available on DVD
51
This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept for some minor inaccuracies the historical facts are given in a correct way. ...more about Hitler Gang
- Not Available on DVD
52
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. ...more about Homecoming
- Not Available on DVD
53
In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. ...more about I Want You
- Not Available on DVD
55
Always believing she had a happy marriage, a young wife's trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers that her father had paid him to marry her. ...more about Invitation
- Not Available on DVD
56
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. ...more about Kid from Left Field
- Not Available on DVD
57
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson (William Bendix), failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans (Ray Collins), a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. ...more about Kill the Umpire
- Not Available on DVD
58
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft. ...more about Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
DVD from $12.95
(8 sellers)
59
Otis Bird's factory manufactures a part for howitzers that has been vital to the success of the war effort. Production must be stepped up. ...more about Main Street Today
- Not Available on DVD
62
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. ...more about Never Say Goodbye
- Not Available on DVD
64
Yong Joel Curtis (Ted Donaldson) finds an orphaned colt in the woods, whom he names "Red" and raises and trains him. ...more about Red Stallion
- Not Available on DVD
65
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. ...more about Reformer and the Redhead
- Not Available on DVD
68
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at business college but her plans for a career change when she falls in love with handsome Rodney Crane. ...more about Roughly Speaking
- Not Available on DVD
72
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. ...more about Texas Lady
- Not Available on DVD
73
In the ninth entry of this ten-film series, Maisie (Ann Sothern) graduates from business college and disguises herself as a spinsterish frump in order (based on eight past experiences) to keep wolfish prospective employees in line. ...more about Up Goes Maisie
- Not Available on DVD
74
Wally Benton, "The Fox", master detective on radio is about to go, with his sweetheart, to Niagra Falls in order to get married. ...more about Whistling in Brooklyn
- Not Available on DVD
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