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Rène Ray

Rène Ray

Acting

Biography

Rène Ray (born Irene Lilian Creese) was a British stage and screen actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was the third wife of the Earl of Midleton and was also a successful novelist and amateur painter in later life.

Known For

Secret Agent
6.1

During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.

Secret Agent

1936
They Made Me a Fugitive
6.6

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947
The Galloping Major
6.1

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

The Galloping Major

1951
The Good Die Young
6.4

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

The Good Die Young

1954
The Rat
8.1

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.

The Rat

1937
Young Woodley
9.0

A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.

Young Woodley

1930
The Vicious Circle
6.5

When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.

The Vicious Circle

1957
No image
10.0

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Excess Baggage

1933
Crime Over London
7.0

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Crime Over London

1936
Two White Arms
7.0

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

Two White Arms

1932
Once in a New Moon
6.9

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.

Once in a New Moon

1935
Bank Holiday
6.2

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.

Bank Holiday

1938
No image
10.0

An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.

Rolling in Money

1934
Housemaster
7.0

Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.

Housemaster

1938
Tiger Bay
6.6

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.

Tiger Bay

1934
Farewell Again
6.5

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.

Farewell Again

1937
The Strange World of Planet X
4.7

Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge.

The Strange World of Planet X

1958
The Green Cockatoo
5.9

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

The Green Cockatoo

1937
Women of Twilight
6.0

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.

Women of Twilight

1953
If Winter Comes
6.7

The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.

If Winter Comes

1947