Bobby Ray

Acting

Bobby Ray

Born — Died

1899-10-06 — 1957-03-26

Place of birth

New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

The Hawk poster
5.5

On the back nine of his career, golf legend Lonnie "The Hawk" Hawkins chases one final major — and drags everyone he loves into the chaos.

The Hawk

2026

Riley of the Rainbow Division poster
8.0

Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends. However, they get in trouble and wind up in the guardhouse. Their girlfriends are determined to get married, however, and in order to accomplish this, they disguise themselves as soldiers and sneak onto the base, where they unwittingly get mixed up with enemy spies trying to gather information.

Riley of the Rainbow Division

1928

Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor poster
7.0

When a small traveling theatrical troupe stages a production in town, Ike is suddenly "bitten" by the acting bug and determines to become a famous actor.

Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor

1914

Stork Mad poster
7.7

A baby is dumped on a couple's doorstep, neither knows how to take care of the child, and funny situations arise. But things get more complicated when the husband receives a letter informing him that his mother is sick.

Stork Mad

1926

No artwork available
7.0

Quite a leisurely introduction shows Bobby in the process of collecting one traffic offence after another but the film really gathers momentum when Ray delivers his testimony in court and tells a most elaborate tall tale (very effectively dramatised) to explain how it had happened.

Howdy Judge

1926

No artwork available
8.0

A young lady doctor causes all the trouble in Alkali Flats. Up to this time the town had never awakened. Then Louise arrived. There was just two hotels in town, one owned by a widow and the other by the mother of Universal Ike, Jr. Louise set out for the widow's hotel. But before she arrived her coming was heralded and every cowboy in the town

Universal Ike Junior in a Case on the Doctor

1914

Film credits

1920s · 14 titles

Stork Mad poster
7.7

A baby is dumped on a couple's doorstep, neither knows how to take care of the child, and funny situations arise. But things get more complicated when the husband receives a letter informing him that his mother is sick.

Stork Mad

1926

No artwork available
7.0

Quite a leisurely introduction shows Bobby in the process of collecting one traffic offence after another but the film really gathers momentum when Ray delivers his testimony in court and tells a most elaborate tall tale (very effectively dramatised) to explain how it had happened.

Howdy Judge

1926

No artwork available
NR

A Bobby Ray comedy for Arrow.

So Simple

1925

Meet Father poster
NR

The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champion.

Meet Father

1924

Stick Around poster
6.1

A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?

Stick Around

1925

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Hey, Taxi!

1925

No artwork available
NR

Tusun comedy starring Bobby Ray – very little is known about the film, this 1940s NuArt home movie release is a very rare print, courtesy of Rob Farr.

Service A La Bunk

1921

Hop to It! poster
5.8

Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.

Hop to It!

1925

No artwork available
NR

Bobby just wants to take his new beau out on a date but when the girl's wacky, practical joke loving, family invites themselves along, things get "interesting".

Bobby's Day Out

1926

Post No Bills poster
7.3

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.

Post No Bills

1923

No artwork available
NR

A mother comes to visit and see the child that the married couple has made up. A Bobby Ray comedy.

Grandma's Child

1926

No artwork available
7.5

They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

They All Fall

1925

No artwork available
10.0

Bobby has to become an athlete in order to win a girl's love.

The Channel Swim

1926

No artwork available
NR

Bobby Ray in the village of New Ralgia.

New Ralgia

1920

1910s · 21 titles

Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor poster
7.0

When a small traveling theatrical troupe stages a production in town, Ike is suddenly "bitten" by the acting bug and determines to become a famous actor.

Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor

1914

No artwork available
8.0

A young lady doctor causes all the trouble in Alkali Flats. Up to this time the town had never awakened. Then Louise arrived. There was just two hotels in town, one owned by a widow and the other by the mother of Universal Ike, Jr. Louise set out for the widow's hotel. But before she arrived her coming was heralded and every cowboy in the town

Universal Ike Junior in a Case on the Doctor

1914

No artwork available
10.0

Office worker Ethel decides to host a luncheon party on the office roof while her boss is away. Two male co-workers, Bill and his pal, decide they should be invited as well and join the party uninvited. Ethel, displeased by their intrusion, enlists her other male guests to remove the pair from the roof, conflict of a comic nature ensues.

Ethel's Roof Party

1914

No artwork available
7.0

Boys on Circle Ranch dissatisfied with the cooking, decide to have the cook discharged. The ranch owner sends Ike to town to bring a new cook back. In the meantime, the cook's daughter has arrived to pay her mother a visit.

Universal Ike Junior in the New Cook

1914

No artwork available
10.0

After a long spell of quietude at Alkali Flat things began to brighten up. Horse thieves drove a number of stock away. The men folks organized a posse. Although Ike was not married he, like the others, found the business of chasing horse-thieves rather restful. While the posse was camped in an old riverbed, Zingara, a beautiful gypsy girl, and her father drove their wagon into the camp and were invited to put up there tor the night.

Universal Ike Junior and the Vampire

1914

No artwork available
8.0

Drummer Jones makes his annual trip west. He stays at the Thatch Hotel, run by Louise's mother. Ike is janitor of the hotel. He and Louise are sweethearts. After the trunks are placed in the drummer's room he unpacks his samples. Louise has been watching from her room. When she sees her way clear, she hides herself in the trunk.

Universal Ike Junior in His City Elopement

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Daughter is a sweet and simple thing but not easily managed. Mother picks Harry. Dad prefers Johnny. Daughter herself has her heart set on Billy. A mild war is declared when daughter sees a way to solve the matter. She tells mother that she will marry Harry, Dad that she will wed Johnnie and whispers slyly to Billy that he is the man.

Universal Ike Junior in Me, Him, and I

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Universal Ike Junior in a Battle Royal

Universal Ike Junior in a Battle Royal

1914

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9.0

Louise's father at last decides she is old enough to marry. So she in turn informs Ike of the fact and bids him come at once before father changes his mind. While Louise is getting her wedding dress ready, Ike purchases himself a dress suit. He steals a horse and buggy and starts for the train. The horse refuses to hurry.

Universal Ike Junior in Cupid's Victory

1914

No artwork available
10.0

Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.

Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Dad goes to get some money, but the beehives are empty. There is a great confusion until Ma finds some hair in the hive. The sheriff, meanwhile, is searching for criminals. He meets Ma and Pa, sees the hair, decides the thieves and his prey are the same and seeks aid.

Universal Ike Junior Bearly Won Her

1914

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7.0

Ray Vernon, a hard-working young man who so far has been unable to catch the elusive dollar, is in love with Louise, the daughter of a wealthy broker. Ray is sternly told that when he possesses $5,000 as a start in life, his suit may be considered. Disheartened, Ray starts for town. On the corner adjoining the magnificent mansion of the broker is a vacant lot on which a sign stating that there are no restrictions as to buildings advertises the lot for sale. An idea strikes Ray. Making for the real estate office, he buys an option for thirty days on the lot. He then visits the Italian section and makes a proposition to Pedro, an Italian, to build him a small shack which he can have, providing he and his family will move into it. A few days later the wealthy broker's wife is astonished to see a rough wooden shack erected on the vacant lot, and Pedro and his numerous posterity its inhabitants.

Universal Ike Junior in the Shack Next Door

1914

No artwork available
7.0

An English nobleman travels West for some deer hunting. The ranch hands make fun of him, but Louise takes a liking to him and decides that she'll help him bag his deer.

Universal Ike Junior in the 'Dear' Hunter

1914

No artwork available
10.0

Young Ike has fallen for the rancher's daughter. His chances improve when it's found that he stands to inherit $50,000, but things get complicated it turns out that he's actually $50,000 in debt.

Universal Ike Junior Nearly Gets Married

1914

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6.2

Office boy Bill encounters a group of anarchists and inadvertently involves one of them in a scheme to open a safe. The "W.W.W.'s" stands for "We Won't Work", a comedic take on the real-life labor movement, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or "Wobblies").

Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s

1914

No artwork available
10.0

Universal Ike Junior on His Honeymoon

Universal Ike Junior on His Honeymoon

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Following their elopement, Ike and Louise are captured by the sheriff, and with the girl's mother and father, all go to a hotel for the night. The sheriff takes charge of his two prisoners and locks them in adjoining rooms. They discover a fire escape. While they are planning their getaway, the old folks are preparing for bed.

Universal Ike Junior's Legacy

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Miss Charity Prim, principal of a select school for young ladies, decides to take five of her pupils on a vacation. She writes a letter notifying the local hotel keeper that she will arrive by auto. She arrives with her charges and is met at the hotel by a deluge of cowboys, whom she chases away.

Universal Ike Junior in the Scarecrow and the Chaperone

1914

No artwork available
10.0

The glad tidings that his mother-in-law had arrived in town reached Ike just as he was about to swallow a glass of beer. His agitation was extreme. His home life was bad enough before but after the mother arrived it was an inferno.

Universal Ike Junior and His Mother-in-Law

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Ike, having produced the roll of money from the leg of Louise's father's trousers, rents a speedy automobile, and with Louise starts for the beach. Meanwhile, father, ma and the sheriff, having extricated themselves from the roof of the hotel, start out in mad pursuit.

Universal Ike Junior in the Dangers of a Great City

1914

No artwork available
3.5

the Choir Boys

The Choir Boys

1915

Series credits

Behind the camera