Rène Ray

Rène Ray

Born: September 22, 1911
Died: August 28, 1993
in London, England, UK
Rène Ray (born Irene Lilian Creese) was a British stage and screen actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was the third wife of the Earl of Midleton and was also a successful novelist and amateur painter in later life.

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The Vicious Circle
Title: The Vicious Circle
Character: Mrs. Ambler
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.
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The Good Die Young
Title: The Good Die Young
Character: Angela Morgan
Released: March 2, 1954
Type: Movie
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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Wuthering Heights
Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Isabella
Released: December 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
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Women of Twilight
Title: Women of Twilight
Character: Vivianne Bruce
Released: January 16, 1953
Type: Movie
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Pam Riley
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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If Winter Comes
Title: If Winter Comes
Character: Sarah 'Low Jinks'
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Cora (as Rene Ray)
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Sally
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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A Call for Arms!
Title: A Call for Arms!
Character: Joan
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
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The Return of the Frog
Title: The Return of the Frog
Character: Lela Oaks
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
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Weddings Are Wonderful
Title: Weddings Are Wonderful
Character: Betty Leadbetter
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
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Housemaster
Title: Housemaster
Character: Chris Faringdon
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
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Bank Holiday
Title: Bank Holiday
Character: Doreen Richards
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Character: Eileen
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Odile Verdier
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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Jennifer Hale
Title: Jennifer Hale
Character: Jennifer Hale
Released: October 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A showgirl who is wrongly accused of murdering her manager goes on the run to try to prove her innocence.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: Elsie Wainwright
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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Please Teacher
Title: Please Teacher
Character: Ann Trent
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However, the house has been sold, and is now a girls school and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne, one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades, but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy...
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His Lordship
Title: His Lordship
Character: Vera
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Character: Joan
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Beloved Impostor
Title: Beloved Impostor
Character: Mary
Released: July 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1936
Type: Movie
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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Street Song
Title: Street Song
Character: Lucy
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Title: The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Character: Stasia
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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Once in a New Moon
Title: Once in a New Moon
Character: Stella Drake
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
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Tiger Bay
Title: Tiger Bay
Character: Letty
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
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The Changing Year
Title: The Changing Year
Character: The Girl
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
'Couple fall in love as seasons change through year.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Born Lucky
Title: Born Lucky
Character: Mops
Released: April 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A humble girl's rise to fame.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: Angela Murgatroyd
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The King's Cup
Title: The King's Cup
Character: Peggy
Released: February 2, 1933
Type: Movie
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
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Here's George
Title: Here's George
Character: Telephonist
Released: September 20, 1932
Type: Movie
'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)
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When London Sleeps
Title: When London Sleeps
Character: Mary
Released: July 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
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Two White Arms
Title: Two White Arms
Character: Trixie
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
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Keepers of Youth
Title: Keepers of Youth
Character: Kitty Williams
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Title: Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Character: Rose Smithers
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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Dance Pretty Lady
Title: Dance Pretty Lady
Character: Elsie
Released: December 10, 1931
Type: Movie
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
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Young Woodley
Title: Young Woodley
Character: Kitty
Released: July 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.
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Varsity
Title: Varsity
Character: Iris
Released: March 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A Cambridge student takes the blame for his gambling brother.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Released: March 25, 1929
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.