Ray Collins (actor)
Date Title Role Notes
1930 - The American School of the Air Repertory cast
February 9 , 1931 - The Eno Crime Club Mystery drama series
March 6 , 1931 - The March of Time Repertory cast
January 16 , 1933 - Just Plain Bill Serial drama
July 25 , 1936 Five Star Theatre Behind That Curtain , conclusion of a Charlie Chan mystery
July 14 - September 22 , 1935 America 's Hour Repertory cast Patriotic documentary drama
1935-41 Cavalcade of America Repertory cast Weekly anthology drama series
March 22 , 1936 Terror by Night The Bells
February 23 - September 16 , 1936 Peter Absolute Augustus Crabtree Weekly dramatic serial Collins plays a strolling tragedian in this story of a boy 's adventures during the early days of the Erie Canal
June 1 , 1936 - Wilderness Road Daniel Boone Frontier serial drama
July 25 , 1936 Columbia Workshop Repertory cast Broadway Evening
August 1 , 1936 Columbia Workshop Repertory cast Cartwheel
September 2 , 1936 - August 1937 The Heinz Magazine of the Air John Serial drama segment , Trouble House
September 12 , 1936 Columbia Workshop Repertory cast A Voyage To Brobdingnag
July 23 - September 3 , 1937 Les Misérables Seven-episode weekly series First drama by Orson Welles 's nascent Mercury Theatre radio company
August 30 , 1937 Shakespearean Cycle Twelfth Night
September 26 , 1937 - September 11 , 1938 The Shadow Commissioner Weston Repertory cast
December 3 , 1937 Grand Central Station Starring Martin Gabel
December 23 , 1937 The Kate Smith Hour Blessed Are They
July 11 , 1938 The Mercury Theatre on the Air Russian Captain Dracula
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Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 - July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane (1941), as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as the irascible Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on the television series Perry Mason.