Biography: life and films
Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress whose birth name was Vina Fay Wray. She was born in Cardston, Alberta, Canada on 15th September 1907 and died in New York City, New York, USA on 8th August 2004, aged 96.Her best films as an actor include Gasoline Love (1923), Erich von Stroheim's The Honeymoon (1928), Robert Milton's Behind the Make-Up (1930), Merian C. Cooper's thriller King Kong (1933) and Irving Cummings's The Woman I Stole (1933).
Fay Wray appeared in 85 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Albert S. Rogell (4 films), Victor Noerdlinger (2), Stan Laurel (2), Roy William Neill (2), Michael Curtiz (2), Merian C. Cooper (2), Lambert Hillyer (2), Jack Raymond (2), Erich von Stroheim (2), Edward Sloman (2) and Clifford Smith (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (31 films), comedy (19), Western (14), Thriller (8), Horror (6), romance (4), crime-thriller (3), comedy-romance (3), comedy-drama (3), history (2) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for Fay Wray over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
A Lover's Oath (1925) [a]
The Coast Patrol (1925) [a]
Lazy Lightning (1926) [a]
The Man in the Saddle (1926) [a]
The Wild Horse Stampede (1926) [a]
A One Man Game (1927) [a]
Loco Luck (1927) [a]
Spurs and Saddles (1927) [a]
Street of Sin (1928) [a]
The First Kiss (1928) [a]
The Honeymoon (1928) [a]
The Wedding March (1928) [a]
Pointed Heels (1929) [a]
The Four Feathers (1929) [a]
Behind the Make-Up (1930) [a]
Captain Thunder (1930) [a]
Galas de la Paramount (1930) [a]
The Border Legion (1930) [a]
The Sea God (1930) [a]
The Texan (1930) [a]
Dirigible (1931) [a]
The Conquering Horde (1931) [a]
The Finger Points (1931) [a]
The Lawyer's Secret (1931) [a]
The Unholy Garden (1931) [a]
Three Rogues (1931) [a]
Doctor X (1932) [a]
Stowaway (1932) [a]
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) [a]
Ann Carver's Profession (1933) [a]
Below the Sea (1933) [a]
King Kong (1933) [a]
Master of Men (1933) [a]
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) [a]
One Sunday Afternoon (1933) [a]
Shanghai Madness (1933) [a]
The Big Brain (1933) [a]
The Bowery (1933) [a]
The Vampire Bat (1933) [a]
The Woman I Stole (1933) [a]
Black Moon (1934) [a]
Cheating Cheaters (1934) [a]
Mills of the Gods (1934) [a]
Once to Every Woman (1934) [a]
The Affairs of Cellini (1934) [a]
The Clairvoyant (1934) [a]
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934) [a]
The Richest Girl in the World (1934) [a]
Viva Villa! (1934) [a]
Woman in the Dark (1934) [a]
Bulldog Jack (1935) [a]
Come Out of the Pantry (1935) [a]
White Lies (1935) [a]
Roaming Lady (1936) [a]
They Met in a Taxi (1936) [a]
When Knights Were Bold (1936) [a]
It Happened in Hollywood (1937) [a]
Murder in Greenwich Village (1937) [a]
The Jury's Secret (1938) [a]
Navy Secrets (1939) [a]
Smashing the Spy Ring (1939) [a]
Wildcat Bus (1940) [a]
Adam Had Four Sons (1941) [a]
Melody for Three (1941) [a]
Not a Ladies' Man (1942) [a]
This Is the Life (1944) [w]
Small Town Girl (1953) [a]
Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) [a]
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) [a]
Queen Bee (1955) [a]
Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) [a]
Crime of Passion (1957) [a]
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) [a]
Dragstrip Riot (1958) [a]
Summer Love (1958) [a]
Murder by Death (1976) [a]
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The silent era of French cinema
The best French war films ever made
