Ray Linn Jr.(1914-1994)
- Actor
Ray Lawrence Linn Jr. was born in Burbank and grew up in Long Beach,
California. While a student at California Christian College in Los
Angeles (now Chapman University in Orange, California), he began his
media career singing bass in a male quartet on a religious radio
program. He subsequently was cast as one of the singing Seven Dwarfs in
Disney's Snow White. (Which dwarf? Hard to say: Unlike the voice
actors, individual singers were not identified with individual
characters.) After army service in World War II, he worked as a
Hollywood musician from the late 1940s through the 1970s, contributing
to numerous feature-film, cartoon, and television soundtracks, and
occasionally appearing on camera, usually uncredited. He also composed,
arranged, conducted, and performed in many popular signing commercials
of that era.