Biografía

The marriage of his ex-wife Gloria Grahame and his son Anthony Ray caused a big scandal in Hollywood and led to a battle over custody (1960).

Of his own films, his personal favorite was Rebelde sin causa (1955), which is also easily his most commercially successful film. Ray was also proud of his work on Los amantes de la noche (1948), and the fact that he had been able to "wing it" on Hombres errantes (1952). He admitted that En un lugar solitario (1950) was "a very personal film".

He worked with principally younger cast members throughout his career and always preferred hanging out with them, sharing beers with James Dean.

Prior to entering the film business, he studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright. As a result, many critics note his brilliant use of geography and space.

Influenced a younger generation of directors, especially in Europe, such as Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

[on James Cagney] Jimmy not only has a great serenity, such as I've not seen in an actor outside of Walter Huston, he has a great love of the earth and of his fellow man, an understanding of loneliness.

[on James Dean] The conflict between giving himself and fear of giving in to his own feelings; a vulnerability so deeply embedded that one is instantly moved, almost disturbed by it.

I wish Luis Buñuel had made Los olvidados (1950) before I made Llamad a cualquier puerta (1949), because I would have made a hell of a lot better movie.

[on Humphrey Bogart] He was much more than an actor: he was the very image of our condition. His face was a living reproach.