Anthony Ray, Actor, Oscar-Nominated Producer and Son of Director Nicholas Ray, Dies at 80
Anthony Ray, a son of 'Rebel Without a Cause' director Nicholas Ray who appeared in John Cassavetes' 'Shadows' and earned an Oscar nomination for producing 'An Unmarried Woman,' has died. He was 80.
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Anthony Ray, a son of Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray who appeared in John Cassavetes’ Shadows and earned an Oscar nomination for producing An Unmarried Woman, has died. He was 80.
Ray died June 29 in Saco, Maine, after a long illness, his family announced.
Just after he turned 20, Ray appeared on Broadway in the Elia Kazan and William Inge drama The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, which debuted in December 1957 and ran for more than 450 performances.
In Shadows (1958), Cassavetes’ admired feature debut, Ray
portrayed Tony — a young man who sleeps with a virgin (Lelia Goldoni) and is
surprised to discover that her family is black.
He also appeared on the big screen in Anthony Mann’s Men in War (1957), Sidney J. Furie’s A Cool Sound From Hell (1959) and on television on The Twilight Zone, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Untouchables and the soap opera Search for Tomorrow.
Ray served as executive in charge of East Coast production
for 20th Century Fox and shared a best picture Oscar nomination with
writer-director Paul Mazursky for An Unmarried Woman (1978), starring Jill
Clayburgh. He also was an executive producer on Bette Midler’s The Rose (1979).
In addition to the James Dean classic, Rebel Without a Cause, his father Nicholas also directed such notable films as They Live by Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Bigger Than Life (1956) and Johnny Guitar (1954).
He was married to his In a Lonely Place star, Gloria Grahame, from 1948 until their divorce in 1952.
Eight years later, Anthony Ray married his former stepmother
in Tijuana, Mexico. He was 23, Grahame was 37, and they kept their new
relationship a secret until the Hollywood tabloids found out about it in 1962
and roasted them for it.
The marriage, his first and her fourth (and last), proved extremely damaging to Grahame’s career.
“The early years of the Gloria-Tony marriage were so contentious and stressful that Gloria endured a brief mental breakdown and eventually underwent shock treatments in 1964 to help clear her mind of her troubles,” Robert J. Lentz wrote in his 2011 book, Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir.
She and Anthony then divorced in 1974.
He was born in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 1937. His mother was journalist Jean Evans, who had married Nicholas Ray a year earlier. They divorced in 1942.
Anthony grew up in New York City, where he attended NYU and
The New School for Social Research. He studied acting at the Neighborhood
Playhouse and was a member of the Actors Studio.
He collaborated often with Mazursky, also working as an assistant director or producer on Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Alex in Wonderland (1970), Blume in Love (1973), Harry and Tonto (1974), Willie & Phil (1980) and Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976).
Ray’s family noted that he also was an A.D. on Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960) and John Huston’s The Misfits (1961).
After leaving Hollywood and relocating to Maine, Ray created a film program at Emerson College and directed the International Film and Television Workshop in Rockport, Maine.
He resided in Saco for the past 10 years after retiring to nearby Cape Neddick in the late 1980s.
The family listed his survivors as his wife, Eve, and
children, Kelsey and Tony Jr. A service to celebrate his life will be held in
the fall.
Actor
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
7.2
Shorty
1973
We Shall Return (1963)
We Shall Return
5.3
Ramon Rodriguez
1963
Wide Country (1962)
Wide Country
8.0
TV Series
Stan Simpson (as Tony Ray)
1963
1 episode
Bob Denver and Dwayne Hickman in The Many Loves of Dobie
Gillis (1959)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
7.7
TV Series
Doctor
1962
1 episode
Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, and Robert
Stack in The Untouchables (1959)
The Untouchables
8.0
TV Series
Louis Mallet (as Tony Ray)
1962
1 episode
War Hunt (1962)
War Hunt
6.2
Pvt. Joshua Fresno
1962
Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone (1959)
The Twilight Zone
9.0
TV Series
Newsboy
1961
1 episode
The Best of the Post (1960)
The Best of the Post
7.4
TV Series
Electrician (as Tony Ray)
1961
1 episode
Pat Conway in Tombstone Territory (1957)
Tombstone Territory
7.9
TV Series
Sam Edwards
1960
1 episode
A Cool Sound from Hell (1959)
A Cool Sound from Hell
6.8
Charlie
1959
Shadows (1958)
Shadows
7.2
Tony
1958
John Payne in The Restless Gun (1957)
The Restless Gun
7.4
TV Series
Charlie
1957
1 episode
Agnes Moorehead, Robert Wagner, and Hope Lange in The True
Story of Jesse James (1957)
The True Story of Jesse James
6.2
Bob Younger (uncredited)
1957
Men in War (1957)
Men in War
7.1
Pvt. Penelli
1957
Producer
Willie & Phil (1980)
Willie & Phil
5.9
producer (as Tony Ray)
1980
Bette Midler in The Rose (1979)
The Rose
6.9
executive producer (as Tony Ray)
1979
Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman (1978)
An Unmarried Woman
7.2
producer (as Tony Ray, produced by)
1978
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
7.0
producer (as Tony Ray)
1976
Rancho Deluxe (1975)
Rancho Deluxe
6.3
associate producer
1975
Alan Arkin and James Caan in Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Freebie and the Bean
6.6
associate producer (as Tony Ray)
1974
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Harry and Tonto
7.3
associate producer (as Tony Ray)
1974
George Segal in Blume in Love (1973)
Blume in Love
6.2
associate producer (as Tony Ray)
1973
Donald Sutherland in Alex in Wonderland (1970)
Alex in Wonderland
5.4
associate producer
1970
Production Manager
Bo Derek in Ghosts Can't Do It (1989)
Ghosts Can't Do It
2.2
production manager (as Anthony M. Ray)
1989
Turk 182 (1985)
Turk 182
6.0
production manager
1985
Without a Trace (1983)
Without a Trace
7.1
unit production manager (as Tony Ray)
1983
Soup for One (1982)
Soup for One
5.5
unit production manager
1982
Willie & Phil (1980)
Willie & Phil
5.9
unit production manager (as Tony Ray)
1980
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
7.0
production manager (as Tony Ray)
1976
Alan Arkin and James Caan in Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Freebie and the Bean
6.6
unit production manager (as Tony Ray)
1974
Second Unit or Assistant Director
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Harry and Tonto
7.3
assistant director (as Tony Ray)
1974
Kid Blue (1973)
Kid Blue
6.2
assistant director (as Tony Ray)
1973
Valdez Is Coming (1971)
Valdez Is Coming
6.7
first assistant director (as Tony Ray)
1971
Donald Sutherland in Alex in Wonderland (1970)
Alex in Wonderland
5.4
assistant director
1970
Anthony Zerbe and Lola Falana in The Liberation of L.B.
Jones (1970)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
6.8
assistant director
1970
Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, and Walter Matthau in Cactus
Flower (1969)
Cactus Flower
7.2
assistant director
1969
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
6.7
assistant director
1969
Don Murray and Otis Young in The Outcasts (1968)
The Outcasts
7.4
TV Series
assistant director
1968–1969
7 episodes
Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in
Bewitched (1964)
Bewitched
7.6
TV Series
assistant director (as Anthony M. Ray)
1968
1 episode
Iron Horse (1966)
Iron Horse
7.1
TV Series
assistant director
1966–1968
21 episodes
A Time for Killing (1967)
A Time for Killing
5.4
assistant director
1967
Chuck Connors in Branded (1965)
Branded
7.4
TV Series
assistant director
1965–1966
6 episodes
Joan Baez, Ray Charles, David McCallum, Roger Miller, and
Tina Turner in The Big T.N.T. Show (1965)
The Big T.N.T. Show
7.6
assistant director
1965
Valentine's Day (1964)
Valentine's Day
7.6
TV Series
assistant director (as Tony Ray)
1965
1 episode
Self
The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979)
The 51st Annual Academy Awards
6.9
TV Special
Self - Nominee
1979
Archive Footage
Compression (1995)
Compression
7.2
TV Series
Self (archive footage)
2023
1 episode
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