Fay Wray

Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress, who was born Vina Fay Wray on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Her family moved to the United States when she was three. Although Wray's autobiography discusses her Mormon parentage and makes it clear that she was an ethnic Mormon, she was apparently never baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wray's family lived in predominantly Mormon communities in Alberta, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah before settling in Los Angeles, California, where she got her first film work in Hal Roach comedy shorts and in low-budget westerns in the early 1920s.

Filmography

• Gasoline Love (1923) (short subject)
• Thundering Landlords (1925) (short subject)
• No Father to Guide Him (1925) (short subject)
• The Coast Patrol (1925)
• Sure-Mike (1925) (short subject)
• What Price Goofy (1925) (short subject)
• Isn't Life Terrible? (1925) (short subject)
• Chasing the Chaser (1925) (short subject)
• Madame Sans Jane (1925) (short subject)
• Unfriendly Enemies (1925) (short subject)
• Your Own Back Yard (1925) (short subject)
• Moonlight and Noses (1925) (short subject)
• Should Sailors Marry? (1925) (short subject)
• WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926) (short subject)
• One Wild Time (1926) (short subject)
• Don Key (A Son of a Burro (1926) (short subject)
• The Man in the Saddle (1926)
• Don't Shoot (1926) (short subject)
• The Wild Horse Stampede (1926)
• The Saddle Tramp (1926) (short subject)
• The Show Cowpuncher (1926) (short subject)
• Lazy Lightning (1926)
• Loco Luck (1927)
• A One Man Game (1927)
• Spurs and Saddles (1927)
• A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927) (short subject)
• The Honeymoon (1928) (unreleased)
• The Legion of the Condemned (1928)
• Street of Sin (1928)
• The First Kiss (1928)
• The Wedding March (1928)
• Thunderbolt (1929)
• The Four Feathers (1929)
• Pointed Heels (1929)
• Behind the Make-Up (1930)
• Paramount on Parade (1930)
• The Texan (1930)
• The Border Legion (1930)
• The Sea God (1930)
• Captain Thunder (1930)
• The Conquering Horde (1931)
• Three Rogues (1931)
• The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject)
• Dirigible (1931)
• The Finger Points (1931)
• The Lawyer's Secret (1931)
• The Unholy Garden (1931)
• Hollywood on Parade (1932) (short subject)
• Stowaway (1932)
• Doctor X (1932)
• The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
• The Vampire Bat (1932)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
• King Kong (1933)
• Below the Sea (1933)
• Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
• The Woman I Stole (1933)
• Shanghai Madness (1933)
• The Big Brain (1933)
• One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
• The Bowery (1933)
• Master of Men (1933)
• The Clairvoyant (1934)
• Madame Spy (1934)
• The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)
• Once to Every Woman (1934)
• Viva Villa! (1934)
• The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
• Black Moon (1934)
• The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
• Cheating Cheaters (1934)
• Woman in the Dark (1934)
• Come Out of the Pantry (1935)
• Mills of the Gods (1935)
• Bulldog Jack (1935)
• White Lies (1935)
• When Knight Were Bold (1936)
• Roaming Lady (1936)
• They Met in a Taxi (1936)
• It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
• Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)
• The Jury's Secret (1938)
• Smashing the Spy Ring (1939)
• Navy Secrets (1939)
• Wildcat Bus (1940)
• Melody for Three (1941)
• Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
• Not a Ladies' Man (1942)
• Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
• Small Town Girl (1953)
• Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
• The Cobweb (1955)
• Queen Bee (1955)
• Rock, Pretty Baby (1956)
• Crime of Passion (1957)
• Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
• Summer Lovers (1958)
• Dragstrip Riot (1958)
• ' (1997) (documentary)
• ' (2003) (documentary)