John Griffith Wray
American film director

John Griffith Wray

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American film director
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
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Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
30 August 1881(Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Death:
15 July 1929(Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.)
Family:
Spouse(s):
Bradley King
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John Griffith Wray (August 30, 1881 – July 15, 1929) was an American stage actor and director who later became a noted Hollywood silent film director. He worked on 19 films between 1913 and 1929 that included Anna Christie (1923) and Human Wreckage (1923), Dorothy Davenport's story about her husband Wallace Reid's drug addiction and death.

Biography

Wray was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in Los Angeles, California. By 1912 Wray was a leading actor and stage director with the World's Fair Stock Company's yearlong Hawaiian tour. He married actress Virginia Brissac in Santa Ana, California, on June 29, 1915, and became the step-father of screenwriter Ardel Wray. The couple divorced in 1927. Less than a year before his death Wray married Bradley King, a Hollywood screenwriter.

Selected filmography

  • Hail the Woman (1921)
  • Human Wreckage (1923)
  • Her Reputation (1923)
  • Anna Christie (1923)
  • The Winding Stair (1925)
  • Singed (1927)
  • The Gateway of the Moon (1928)