[1] Jonathan Rosenbaum, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons, page 334. "Bisexual for much of his life, Ray was arguably a director who invested both kinds of pairings with similar erotic as well as romantic dynamics." Mark Cousins, The Story of Film, page 229, calls him "Socially concscious, troubled, and bisexual."
Wife: Jean Evans (m. 1930, div. 1940)
Wife: Betty Utey
Wife: Susan Schwartz
Wife: Gloria Grahame (actress, m. 1-Jun-1948, div. 14-Aug-1952)
Son: Anthony Ray (who later married stepmother Gloria Grahame)
Daughter: Nica Ray
Daughter: Julie Ray
Mistress: Natalie Wood (1954)
RKO Radio Pictures under contract
Coolest Headshots
Missing Eye embolism 1969
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Lightning Over Water (11-Sep-1980)
55 Days at Peking (29-May-1963)
King of Kings (11-Oct-1961)
The Savage Innocents (1-Nov-1960)
Party Girl (28-Oct-1958)
Wind Across the Everglades (11-Sep-1958)
The True Story of Jesse James (Feb-1957)
Bitter Victory (1957)
Bigger Than Life (2-Aug-1956)
Hot Blood (Mar-1956)
Rebel Without a Cause (27-Oct-1955)
Run for Cover (29-Apr-1955)
Johnny Guitar (27-May-1954)
The Lusty Men (24-Oct-1952)
On Dangerous Ground (12-Feb-1952)
Flying Leathernecks (28-Aug-1951)
Born to be Bad (27-Aug-1950)
In a Lonely Place (17-May-1950)
They Live By Night (26-Oct-1949)
A Woman's Secret (5-Mar-1949)
Knock on Any Door (21-Feb-1949)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Lightning Over Water (11-Sep-1980) · Himself
Hair (14-Mar-1979) · The General
The American Friend (24-Jun-1977)
James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975) · Himself
AKA Raymond Nicholas Kienzle