Ray Grey (February 19, 1890, San Diego, California - April 18, 1925, Glendale, California) was an American film director and film actor and the father of actress Virginia Grey.
Grey got his start as an actor in Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios films. His debut was in A Movie Star (1916). In the early 1920s, he switched off between being the main director of features and being a second unit or assistant director, such as with the film Molly O' (1921).
Primary directed such films as Among Those Present (1919), Andy Takes a Flyer (1925), and Between Meals (1926). The last film was released after Grey's early death at age 35 from pneumonia.
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