Ray Teal
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Possessor of one of the meanest faces in the movies, American actor Ray Teal spent much of his film career heading lynch mobs, recruiting for hate organizations and decimating Indians. Naturally, anyone this nasty in films would have to conversely be a pleasant, affable fellow in real life, and so it was with Teal. Working his way through college as a saxophone player, Teal became a bandleader upon graduation, remaining in the musical world until 1936. In 1938, Teal was hired to act in the low-budget Western Jamboree, and though he played a variety of bit parts as cops, taxi drivers and mashers, he seemed more at home in Westerns. Teal found it hard to shake his bigoted badman image even in A-pictures; as one of the American jurists in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), he is the only member of Spencer Tracy's staff that feels that sympathy should be afforded Nazi war criminals -- and the only one on the staff who openly dislikes American liberals. A more benign role came Teal's way on the '60s TV series Bonanza, where he played the sometimes ineffectual but basically decent Sheriff Coffee. Ray Teal retired from films shortly after going through his standard redneck paces in The Liberation of LB Jones (1970). ~ Hal Erickson, RoviRelated Videos:
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| Ray Teal | |
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| Born | January 12, 1902 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States |
| Died | April 2, 1976 (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1937–1974 |
Ray Teal (January 12, 1902 – April 2, 1976) was an American actor who appeared in more than 250 movies and some 90 television programs in his 37-year career. His longest-running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on NBC's western television series Bonanza (1960–1972). He also played a sheriff in the film Ace in the Hole (1951).
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Early life, education and early career
He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Teal, a saxophone player, worked his way through University of California, Los Angeles, located in Los Angeles, California, as a bandleader before becoming an actor.
Acting career
He had a recurring role as a police officer in the 1953-1955 ABC sitcom with a variety show theme, Where's Raymond?, renamed The Ray Bolger Show. Ray Bolger played Raymond Wallace, a song-and-dance man who was repeatedly barely on time for his performances. Others on the series were Richard Erdman, Allyn Joslyn, Betty Lynn, Sylvia Lewis, Gloria Winters, and Verna Felton.[1]
In 1955, Teal portrayed a ruthless cattle baron in the episode "Julesburg" of ABC's Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker, the first hour-long western series on a major network.
He was a bit-part player in western films for several years before landing a substantial role in Northwest Passage (1940). Another of his roles was as Little John in The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946). Notable film roles include playing one of the judges in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) with Spencer Tracy and an indulgent bar owner to Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in The Wild One (1953). This was the second of three times that Teal appeared with Brando having done so already as a drunk in Brando's debut in The Men (1950) and later in Brando's only directorial effort, One-Eyed Jacks (1961), as a bartender.
Teal appeared in three episodes of the 1955-1957 anthology series, Crossroads, a study of clergymen from different denominations.
Death
He died of natural causes at age seventy-four in Santa Monica, California.
Selected filmography
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- Northwest Passage (1940)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- They Died With Their Boots On (1941)
- The Big Shot (1942)
- Apache Trail (1942)
- Back to Bataan (1945)
- Dead Reckoning (1947)
- The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
- Road House (1948 film) (1948)
- Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
- The Wild North (1952)
- The Wild One (1953)
- The Indian Fighter (1955)
The Oklahoman (1957)
- The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
- Inherit the Wind (1960)
- Cattle King (1963)
- Bullet for a Badman (1964)
- Chisum (1970)
See also
- List of Michigan actors
- List of people associated with Grand Rapids, Michigan
- List of people from Santa Monica, California
- List of University of California, Los Angeles people
References
- ^ "Where's Raymond?/ The Ray Bolger Show". ctva.biz. http://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/RayBolgerShow.htm. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
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