George Gray

born: 30 October 1893 Oakland, California, United States of America

died: 08 September 1967 Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America (stroke, age 73)

Slender American actor and comedian, a veteran of Mack Sennett and Columbia short comedies.  Six months after his wife of nearly fifty years, Ethel Marie* passed away, he married former Sennett Bathing Beauty Elsie Tarron (widowed by comedian Andy Clyde two months earlier) on 26 August 1967.  Thirteen days later, he died of a stroke while visiting his brother (presumably younger brother Dugald) in North Carolina.  Poor Elsie was widowed twice in the span of less than three months. * nee Klentz; b. 18 May 1896, Kansas - d. 25 Feb 1967, Los Angeles, CA; m. George on 6 Jan 1919

Real name: George Guy Gray Height: 5'6½"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography; plus 1 film with Charley Chase.

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1933 The Rummy Customer ▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS 1940 The Heckler Baseball spectator Acknowledgements: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11688-85004-44?cc=1325221 (1900 Census) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23046-2387-31?cc=1727033 (1910 Census) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22552-31011-90?cc=1804002 (1919 marriage) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-16367-23456-38?cc=1861144 (WWII Draft Reg. Card) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-16367-22934-29?cc=1861144 (WWII Draft Reg. Card) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V68L-PD2 (1967 marriage) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V62C-9CB (1967 marriage) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP33-MYK (death record) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9TJ-FWY (Social Security Death Index) Mack Sennett's Fun Factory by Brent Walker http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7462526 (Find A Grave) Jesse Brisson (identification in The Rummy) This page was last updated on: 08 June 2019