Albert Ray

Albert Ray born in New Rochelle NY attended Townsend Harris Hall and City College of New York He spent summer vacations as a member of the Vitagraph stock company on 14th St in New York City He appeared in summer stock in White Plains NY Florida and the Harlem Opera House in New York City He directed short subjects for Pathe on the East Coast went to Hollywood in 1915 and directed Ben Turpin pictures for the Vogue Film Co and then Sunshine Comedies for Fox He also acted opposite Ruth Clifford and Mildred Harris at Universal and costarred with Elinor Fair at Fox His first featurelength film as director was Scrap Iron 1921 starring Charles Ray his cousin for First National and altogether he directed nine of his cousins comedies for the studio He returned to Fox and directed the Helen and Warren series and 19 features