Ray Danton

Also Credited As:

Raymond Danton
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Biography

After making his film debut in "Chief Crazy Horse" (1954), Danton gained notice for his portrayal of Lillian Roth's first love in the soapy biopic "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (1955). Danton is best remembered for his portrayal of ruthless mobster "Legs" Diamond in both Budd Boetticher's gangster melodrama, "The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond" (1960), and the 1961 biopic of gangster Dutch Schultz, "Portrait of a Mobster". That same year he also starred …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

Born

September 19, 1931

LATEST CREDITS

Pursuit

Actor

The Night Runner

Roy Turner

The George Raft Story

George Raft

Our Man Flint: Dead on Target

Derek Flint

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Jack 'Legs' Diamond

A Majority of One

Jerome Balck

The Beat Generation

Stan Hess

The Centerfold Girls

Perry

A Very Missing Person

Captain Westering

The Alaskans

Nifty Cronin; saloon owner and swindler

Yellowstone Kelly

Sayapi

Chief Crazy Horse

Little Big Man

The Spoilers

Bronco

Too Much, Too Soon

John Howard

A Fever in the Blood

Marker

The Big Operator

Oscar Wetzel

Onionhead

Ensign Dennis Higgins

I'll Cry Tomorrow

David Tredman

The Chapman Report

Fred Linden

Ice Palace

Bay

Banyon

Victor Pappas

Runaway!

Professor Jack Dunn

The Longest Day

Captain Frank

Portrait of a Mobster

'Legs' Diamond

Crypt of the Living Dead

Director