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Joe Gray is a Actor and Stunts American born on 5 may 1912 at Brooklyn (USA)

Joe Gray

Joe Gray
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Nationality USA
Birth 5 may 1912 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 15 march 1971 (at 58 years)

Joe Gray (May 5, 1912 – March 15, 1971) was an American boxer, actor and stuntman who made appearances in over 110 films in numerous uncredited roles, including 10 of Frank Sinatra's films and 32 of Dean Martin's films. He was a technical adviser on boxing films for John Garfield, Elvis Presley, Jeff Chandler, James Cagney, George Raft, Tony Curtis, and Kirk Douglas, among others.

As a boxer, he compiled a professional boxing record of 8-3-2 with 3 knockout wins. In his private life he was a close friend of the writer Henry Miller. After Gray's death, Miller dedicated a chapter of his 1973 book, My Bike and Other Friends, to Gray.

Gray was the brother of Mack Gray and uncle of the artist Martin Abrahams and great-uncle of actor Jon Abrahams. Gray died in Mexico while on location making a film in Durango. He was 58 years old.



^ Joe Gray at the Internet Movie Database

Best films

Airport (1970)
(Stunts)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
(Stunts)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
(Stunts)
Rio Bravo (1959)
(Stunts)
The Young Lions (1958)
(Stunts)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
(Stunts)

Usually with

Dean Martin
Dean Martin
(19 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(20 films)
Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira
(16 films)
Carey Loftin
Carey Loftin
(8 films)
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Joe Gray (70 films)

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Actor

Summertree
Summertree (1971)
, 1h28
Directed by Anthony Newley
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Douglas, Jack Warden, Barbara Bel Geddes, Rob Reiner, William Smith, Brenda Vaccaro
Roles Man with Dog in Park (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.8557452.8557452.8557452.8557452.855745
In 1970 twenty-year-old Jerry (Michael Douglas) returns to his parents Herb (Jack Warden) and Ruth (Barbara Bel Geddes) to let them know that he has dropped out of university to find himself. His parents are worried not only because they have wasted expensive tuition on Jerry, but the Vietnam War is raging and Jerry has lost his draft deferral. Jerry has plans to enter a Conservatorium of Music as he is confident in his self-taught guitar playing.
Airport
Airport (1970)
, 2h17
Directed by Henry Hathaway, George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
Rating65% 3.298143.298143.298143.298143.29814
Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport. A Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn off of Runway 29 on to the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing Runway 29, forcing airport manager Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) to work overtime. This causes tension with his wife, Cindy (Dana Wynter). Divorce is looming as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg). Bakersfield's brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest (Dean Martin), is a TGA captain scheduled to be the checkride captain for TGA to evaluate Captain Anson Harris (Barry Nelson) during TGA's Flight 2 to Rome. Flight 2 is aboard TGA's flagship service craft, a Boeing 707 known as The Golden Argosy. Although Demarest is married to Bakersfield's sister, Sarah (Barbara Hale), he is secretly having an affair with Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), chief stewardess on Flight 2, who informs him before the flight that she is pregnant with his child.
The Wrecking Crew, 1h45
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nigel Green, Nancy Kwan, Chuck Norris
Rating55% 2.7520952.7520952.7520952.7520952.752095
Matt Helm is assigned by his secret agency, ICE, to bring down an evil count named Contini who is trying to collapse the world economy by stealing a billion dollars in gold.
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, 1h42
Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Betty Field, Jack Albertson
Roles Cab Driver (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1458553.1458553.1458553.1458553.145855
David Sloane is an attorney and a bachelor whose married pal Harry Hunter is having an affair. David decides to do something about it so Harry doesn't mess up his home life.
5 Card Stud, 1h43
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Yaphet Kotto, Katherine Justice
Rating63% 3.1978453.1978453.1978453.1978453.197845
In 1880, a gambler in the small town of Rincon, just outside of Denver, Colorado, is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The players led by the volatile Nick Evers take the cheating gambler to hang him. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the man's lynching. Morgan leaves town, but later returns when he hears that a couple of the other players from that ill-fated game have become victims of grisly murders.
The Ambushers, 1h42
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, Kurt Kasznar, Beverly Adams, John Brascia
Roles Man (uncredited)
Rating53% 2.6511852.6511852.6511852.6511852.651185
Helm is sent to the ICE (Intelligence and Counter Espionage) Training Headquarters to uncover a traitor in the organisation. Whilst there he meets ICE agent Sheila Sommers, the pilot of the saucer who has been recovered from a Central American jungle with no memory of what happened to the saucer she flew. Due to the electo-magnetic power of the saucer, only a woman is able to fly it, males of the species are killed by the energy.
Murderers' Row, 1h45
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Beverly Adams
Roles Guard (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.9003652.9003652.9003652.9003652.900365
The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It is actually a scale model being used in the demonstration of a heliobeam weapon in the headquarters of the Bureau of International Government and Order ("BIG O"). BIG O is a secret organisation with the goal of world domination that previously appeared in The Silencers.
The Silencers, 1h42
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Musical, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Victor Buono, Daliah Lavi, James Gregory, Robert Webber
Roles Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.9512652.9512652.9512652.9512652.951265
Once a photographer by day, spy by night, Matt Helm is now a happily retired secret agent, shooting photos of glamorous models instead of guns and enjoying a close relationship with his assistant, the lovely Lovey Kravezit. But then his old boss, Macdonald, coaxes him back to the agency ICE to thwart a new threat from the villainous organization Big O.
Our Man Flint, 1h48
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Shelby Grant
Rating63% 3.199573.199573.199573.199573.19957
Spy extraordinaire Derek Flint (James Coburn) is an ex-agent of Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage) who is brought out of retirement to deal with the threat of Galaxy, a world-wide organization led by a trio of mad scientists: Doctor Krupov (Rhys Williams), Doctor Wu (Peter Brocco), and Doctor Schneider (Benson Fong). Impatient that the world's governments will never improve, the scientists demand that all nations capitulate to Galaxy. To enforce their demands, they initiate earthquakes, volcanoes, storms and other natural disasters with their climate-control apparatus, for the only purpose to bring the nations to give up weapons and nuclear energy.
Murderers' Row, 1h45
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Dean Martin, Karl Malden, Ann-Margret, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Camilla Sparv
Roles Guard (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.9003652.9003652.9003652.9003652.900365
L'agent secret et séducteur Matt Helm simule sa mort afin de tromper la vigilance du Docteur Solaris, un savant dont l'invention pourrait détruire le monde. Ce dernier a été enlevé par une organisatioh criminelle. Son enquête conduit Helm sur la Côté D'Azur...
Harlow
Harlow (1965)
, 2h5
Directed by Gordon Douglas, Alex Segal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Carroll Baker, Carol Lynley, Red Buttons, Efrem Zimbalist II, Raf Vallone, Ginger Rogers
Rating56% 2.8024052.8024052.8024052.8024052.802405
The film opens with Harlow as a struggling extra and bit actress dealing with her greedy stepfather Marino (Raf Vallone) and oblivious mother "Mama Jean" (Angela Lansbury, only six years older than Carroll Baker). With the help of Arthur Landau (Red Buttons), she rises to fame and gains the unwanted attention of the Howard Hughes-inspired Richard Manley (Leslie Nielsen). She then marries Paul Bern (Peter Lawford), an absentee husband who kills himself some time after the marriage. His death, combined with the stress of her career leads Harlow on an odyssey of failed relationships and alcoholism, culminating in her death of kidney failure at the age of twenty-six.
Boeing, Boeing, 1h42
Directed by John Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transport films, Erotic films, Aviation films, Films based on plays
Actors Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis, Thelma Ritter, Christiane Schmidtmer, Dany Saval, Suzanna Leigh
Rating63% 3.198063.198063.198063.198063.19806
Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) is an American journalist stationed in Paris, France. A playboy, he has devised an ingenious system for juggling three different girlfriends: by dating stewardesses who are assigned to international routes on non-intersecting flight schedules, only one woman is in the country at any given time. He has their comings and goings timetabled with such precision that he can drop off his British United Airways girlfriend (Suzanna Leigh) for her outgoing flight and pick up his inbound Lufthansa girlfriend (Christiane Schmidtmer) on the very same trip to the airport—while his Air France girlfriend (Dany Saval) is in a holding pattern elsewhere.
What a Way to Go!, 1h51
Directed by John Flynn, J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Black comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Robert Cummings
Roles Patron (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.448953.448953.448953.448953.44895
In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine), dressed as a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase in a pink mansion. As she reaches the bottom, she is followed by pall-bearers carrying a pink coffin. As they round the bend in the staircase, the pallbearers drop the coffin, which sleds down the stairs, leading into the opening titles.
Robin and the 7 Hoods, 2h3
Directed by Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Dean Martin, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Heist films, Gangster films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Edward G. Robinson
Roles Hood
Rating63% 3.1979853.1979853.1979853.1979853.197985
"Big" Jim Stevens, undisputed boss of the Chicago underworld, gets an unexpected birthday present from his ambitious lieutenant, Guy Gisborne. Instead of a stripper popping out of the cake, Big Jim gets shot by all the guests. With the mob boss out of the way, Gisborne takes over. He orders all the other gangsters in town to pay him protection money, but declares it's still "All for One." The news does not sit well with Big Jim's friend and fellow gangster, Robbo, and a gangland war breaks out.