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Ray Whitley (1901–1979)

Trivia:

Once turned down the opportunity to manage Hank Williams due to other commitments. See more trivia »

Died:

(age 77) in Mexico

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Filmography

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2010 Back in the Saddle (short) (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1996 Trees Lounge (writer: "WHAT KIND OF FOOL DO YOU THINK I AM", "I'VE BEEN HURT" / as R. Whitley)
 
1994 Radioland Murders (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1993 Sleepless in Seattle (writer: "Back In The Saddle Again")
 
1982 Some Kind of Hero (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1975-1981 M*A*S*H (TV series)
Tell It to the Marines (1981) (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
Margaret's Engagement (1976) (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
House Arrest (1975) (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1956 Columbia World of Sports: Rodeo Daredevils (documentary short) (music: "Back in the Saddle Again" / lyrics: "Back in the Saddle Again" / performer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1950-1955 The Gene Autry Show (TV series)
Go West, Young Lady (1955) (writer: "Back in the Doghouse Again")
The Million Dollar Fiddle (1955) (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
Bandidos (1953) (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
Melody Mesa (1952) (writer: "Ages and Ages Ago", "Back in the Saddle Again")
Ghost Town Raiders (1951) (writer: "As Long As I Have My Horse")
 
1953 On Top of Old Smoky (writer: "I Hang My Head and Cry")
 
1952 Wagon Team (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1949 Across the Rio Grande (writer: "Across the Rio Grande", "I'm Lonely and Nobody Cares")
 
1949 Gun Law Justice (performer: "Rose Of Old Santa Fe")
 
1945 Flaming Bullets (writer: "I Hang My Head and Cry")
 
1945 Beyond the Pecos (performer: "Call of the Range", "High, Wide and Handsome", "Dusty Trails")
 
1944 The Old Texas Trail (performer: "Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail", "The Old Chisholm Trail")
 
1944 Riders of the Santa Fe (performer: "The Defective Detective From Deadwood", "Bed Down, Bed Down, Little Dogies", "Little Sweetheart of the Rio Grande")
 
1944 Cowboy from Lonesome River (writer: "Rocky Canyon")
 
1944 Trail to Gunsight (writer: "I Ain't Got A Gal To Come Home To" / performer: "Chuck Wagon Blues", "Old Nevada Trail", "I Ain't Got A Gal To Come Home To")
 
1944 Trigger Trail (writer: "Twilight on the Prairie" / performer: "Trail Dreamin'", "I'm Headin' For My Oklahoma Home", "Twilight on the Prairie", "'Long About Sundown")
 
1944 Boss of Boomtown (performer: "Ninety-Nine Days", "Texas")
 
1943 Sagebrush Law (writer: "Down the Cherokee Trail", "Crazy Old Trails")
 
1943 Fighting Frontier (writer: "The Edwards and the Drews", "The Outlaw Trail")
 
1942 Bandit Ranger (writer: "Move Along Little Dogie" 1942, "I'm Musical Ike" 1942)
 
1942 Riding the Wind (writer: "I'll Live Until I Die" 1942, "Goin' on a Hayride Tonight" 1942, "Ridin' the Wind" 1942 / performer: "I'll Live Until I Die" 1942, "Goin' on a Hayride Tonight" 1942, "Ridin' the Wind" 1942)
 
1942 Land of the Open Range (music: "Ki-Yo My Horse Is Slow" 1942, "Land of the Open Range" 1942 / lyrics: "Ki-Yo My Horse Is Slow" 1942, "Land of the Open Range" 1942 / performer: "Ki-Yo My Horse Is Slow" 1942, "Land of the Open Range" 1942)
 
1942 Red River Robin Hood (music: "Twilight on the Prairie" 1940 / lyrics: "Twilight on the Prairie" 1940)
 
1942 Pirates of the Prairie (writer: "Where The Mountains Meet The Moonlight", "Grandpop")
 
1942 Thundering Hoofs (writer: "Thundering Hoof Beats", "Ramble On" / performer: "Thundering Hoof Beats", "Ramble On")
 
1942 Heart of the Rio Grande (writer: "Rocky Canyon")
 
1941 Dude Cowboy (writer: "End of the Canyon Trail", "Dude Cowboy", "Silver Rio", "Echo Singing in the Wild Wind" / performer: "Turkey In the Straw", "End of the Canyon Trail", "Dude Cowboy", "Silver Rio", "Echo Singing in the Wild Wind" / "Echo Singing in the Wild Wind")
 
1941 The Bandit Trail (writer: "On the Outlaw Trail" / performer: "On the Outlaw Trail")
 
1941 Bad Man of Deadwood (writer: "Song of the Dusty Trail")
 
1941 Six-Gun Gold (writer: "Six Gun Gold", "Roll Along Home" / performer: "Six Gun Gold", "Roll Along Home")
 
1941 Cyclone on Horseback (music: "Bangtail", "Tumbleweed Cowboy", "Blue Nightfall" / lyrics: "Bangtail", "Tumbleweed Cowboy", "Blue Nightfall" / performer: "Bangtail", "Tumbleweed Cowboy", "Blue Nightfall")
 
1941 Robbers of the Range (writer: "The Railroad's Coming to Town" / performer: "The Railroad's Coming to Town", "Trail to Mexico Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie")
 
1941 Back in the Saddle (music: "Back in the Saddle Again" / lyrics: "Back in the Saddle Again")
 
1941 Along the Rio Grande (music: "Old Monterey Moon" - uncredited, "My Grandpap" - uncredited, "Along the Rio Grande" - uncredited / lyrics: "Old Monterey Moon" - uncredited, "My Grandpap" - uncredited, "Along the Rio Grande" - uncredited / performer: "My Grandpap" - uncredited, "Along the Rio Grande" - uncredited)
 
1940 Wagon Train (writer: "Wagon Train" - uncredited, "Why Shore" 1940 - uncredited, "A Girl Just Like You" 1940 - uncredited, "Farewell" 1940 - uncredited / performer: "Wagon Train" - uncredited, "Why Shore" 1940 - uncredited)
 
1940 Melody Ranch (music: "Back to the City Again" 1940 - uncredited / lyrics: "Back to the City Again" 1940 - uncredited)
 
1940 The Fargo Kid (music: "Crazy Ole Trails Ahead", "Twilight on the Prairie", "Echo in the Night" / lyrics: "Crazy Ole Trails Ahead", "Twilight on the Prairie", "Echo in the Night" / performer: "Crazy Ole Trails Ahead", "Twilight on the Prairie")
 
1940 Triple Justice (writer: "Lonely Rio" - uncredited)
 
1940 Corralling a Schoolmarm (short) (performer: "Yodeling Song", "Border Serenade", "Down in Rocky Canyon")
 
1940 Prairie Law (writer: "Let Me Ride Down a Rocky Canyon")
 
1940 Bullet Code (writer: "Wagon Train')
 
1939 Trouble in Sundown (music: "Prairie Winds" 1939, "Home on the Prairie" 1939 / lyrics: "Prairie Winds" 1939, "Home on the Prairie" 1939 / performer: "Prairie Winds" 1939, "Home on the Prairie" 1939)
 
1939 Racketeers of the Range (music: "Caboose on the Red ball Train" 1939, "Sleepy Wrangler" 1939 / lyrics: "Caboose on the Red ball Train" 1939, "Sleepy Wrangler" 1939 / performer: "Caboose on the Red ball Train" 1939, "Red River Valley", "Sleepy Wrangler" 1939)
 
1939 Rovin' Tumbleweeds (writer: "Back in the Saddle Again" 1938 - uncredited / music: "Back in the Saddle Again" 1938 - uncredited / lyrics: "Back in the Saddle Again" 1938 - uncredited)
 
1939 Cupid Rides the Range (short) (performer: "Celito Lindo", "Lolota", "Forever is a Long, Long Time")
 
1938 Painted Desert (music: "Painted Desert" 1938 - uncredited, "My Days Are Through on the Range" 1938 - uncredited / lyrics: "Painted Desert" 1938 - uncredited, "My Days Are Through on the Range" 1938 - uncredited / performer: "Painted Desert" 1938 - uncredited, "Moonlight on the Painted Desert" 1938 - uncredited)
 
1938 Gun Law (music: "Pappy Was a Gun Man" 1938, "Breezy Whiskers" 1939 / performer: "Pappy Was a Gun Man" 1938, "So Long Old Pinto" 1938)
 
1938 Border G-Man (music: "To Watch the Settin' Sun" 1938, "Back in the Saddle Again" 1938 / lyrics: "To Watch the Settin' Sun" 1938, "Back in the Saddle Again" 1938 / performer: "To Watch the Settin' Sun" 1938, "Back in the Saddle Again" 1938)
 
1938 The Renegade Ranger (performer: "Move Slow, Little Dogie" - uncredited)
 
1937 Rhythm Wranglers (short) (performer: "Twenty Wrinkles on the Old Washboard", "Goin'Back To Texas", "The Big Corral", "Wagon Trail", "The Old Chisholm Trail")
 
1937 The Old Wyoming Trail (writer: "Goodbye Old Paint" / performer: "He's Ridin' Home", "Goodbye Old Paint", "Love Song of the Waterfall")
 
1937 Hittin' the Trail (writer: "Ridin' the Old Prairie Trail" - uncredited, "Texas Washboard Rag" - uncredited / performer: "Blood on the Saddle" - uncredited, "Ridin' the Old Prairie Trail" - uncredited, "Texas Washboard Rag" - uncredited)
 
1936 King of the Royal Mounted (writer: "Days on the Prairie" / performer: "Days on the Prairie", "Old Chisholm Trail")
 
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1956 Giant
Watts
 
1953-1954 The Roy Rogers Show (TV series)
Jim Sprague / John Wilkins, Government Agent / Marshal Bill Culver
The Kid from Silver City (1954) … Marshal Bill Culver
Little Dynamite (1954) … Jim Sprague
The Peddler from the Pecos (1953) … John Wilkins, Government Agent (as Ray Witley)
 
1953 Calamity Jane
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1949 Gun Law Justice
Ray (uncredited)
 
1946 West of the Alamo
Keno Wilson
 
1945 Renegades of the Rio Grande
Tex Henry
 
1945 Hollywood and Vine
Tex (uncredited)
 
1945 Beyond the Pecos
Dan Muncie
 
1944 The Old Texas Trail
Amarillo
 
1944 Riders of the Santa Fe
Deputy Hank
 
1944 Trail to Gunsight
Barton, Cattle Buyer
 
1944 Trigger Trail
Gilroy
 
1944 Boss of Boomtown
Corporal Clark
 
1942 Thundering Hoofs
Smokey Ryan
 
1942 Range Rhythm (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1942 Come on Danger
Smokey
 
1942 Cactus Capers (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1942 Land of the Open Range
'Smokey'
 
1942 Riding the Wind
Smokey
 
1942 Keep Shooting (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1941 Dude Cowboy
Smokey
 
1941 California or Bust (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1941 The Bandit Trail
Smokey
 
1941 Six-Gun Gold
Smokey
 
1941 The Musical Bandit (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1941 Cyclone on Horseback
'Smokey'
 
1941 Robbers of the Range
Smokey
 
1941 Redskins and Redheads (short)
Ray
 
1941 Along the Rio Grande
Smokey
 
1941 Prairie Spooners (short)
Ray
 
1940 The Fargo Kid
Johnny
 
1940 Bar Buckaroos (short)
Ray
 
1940 Wagon Train
Ned
 
1940 Corralling a Schoolmarm (short)
Ranch Foreman Ray Whitley
 
1940 Molly Cures a Cowboy (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1939 Bandits and Ballads (short)
Ray
 
1939 Cupid Rides the Range (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1939 Sagebrush Serenade (short)
Ray
 
1939 Racketeers of the Range
Ray Whitley
 
1939 Ranch House Romeo (short)
Ray
 
1939 Trouble in Sundown
Andy
 
1938 Prairie Papas (short)
 
1938 The Renegade Ranger
Happy
 
1938 A Western Welcome (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1938 Painted Desert
Steve
 
1938 Border G-Man
Luke Jones
 
1938 Gun Law
Sam McGee
 
1938 A Buckaroo Broadcast (short)
Ray Whitley
 
1938 Rawhide
Gehrig Party Guitarist (uncredited)
 
1938 Where the West Begins
Singer, Henchman (uncredited)
 
1937 Rhythm Wranglers (short)
Ray
 
1937 The Old Wyoming Trail
Singing cowhand (uncredited)
 
1937 The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Guitar Player
 
1937 Hittin' the Trail
Guitar Player
 
1936 Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Rancher Davis
 
1936 King of the Royal Mounted
Singer (uncredited)
 
1935 Hillbilly Love (short)
Band Leader (uncredited)
 
1935 Rodeo Day (short)
Band Leader (uncredited)
 
1934 Mountain Melody (short)
Band Leader (uncredited)
 
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1938 Painted Desert (songs by)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1940s) Singles: Recorded a number of singles for the Cowboy Records label of Philadelphia, and was a colleague of Bill Haley at the label.

Alternate Names:

Ray Witley
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Once turned down the opportunity to manage Hank Williams due to other commitments. See more »

Star Sign:

Sagittarius