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Andrew Ray (31 May 193920 August 2003) was an English actor, who was best known as a child star.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Ray )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daily Express )〕 He was born Andrew Olden (Ray was his father's stage name) in North London, the son of the famous radio comic Ted Ray and his wife, showgirl Dorothy Sibil. Ray's life was transformed at the age of 10 when he was cast in the title part of ''The Mudlark'', a 20th Century Fox film starring Alec Guinness and Irene Dunne. He played a street urchin who ends up meeting Queen Victoria. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance in 1950 and catapulted Ray to child stardom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Andrew Ray )〕 He featured in numerous films during the next few years, including ''The Yellow Balloon'' (1953), ''Escapade'' (1955), ''Woman in a Dressing Gown'' (1957), ''The Young and the Guilty'' (1958), ''Serious Charge'' (1959) with Cliff Richard, ''Twice Round the Daffodils'' (1962), and ''The System'' (1964). He also portrayed Herbert Pocket in the ITC remake of Charles Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' (1974) opposite Michael York. His later films included ''Rough Cut'' (1980), ''The Bunker'' (1981), ''Pope John Paul II'' (1984) and ''Paris by Night'' (1988).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Ray - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie )〕 Noteworthy theatre roles included ''Flowering Cherry'' (with Sir Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson), and ''A Taste of Honey'' on Broadway (with Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Susan Olden )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Ray - IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information )〕 At the age of 19, he married the Rhodesian actress Susan Burnet and they later had two children.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrew Ray )〕 Despite a rocky period in his twenties, Ray subsequently appeared in numerous film, theatre and television roles over the years, including as nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs for Anglia Television and as King George VI in ''Crown Matrimonial'' on stage and television. So successful was his depiction on stage of the stammering George VI that he was cast in the same role (though then Prince Albert, Duke of York) in the television series ''Edward & Mrs. Simpson'' (1978).〔Tom Vallance (Obituary: Andrew Ray, ) ''The Independent'', 26 August 2003〕 He starred in episodes of the television series ''Tales of the Unexpected'' titled 'The Wrong 'Un', and ′Royal Jelly' plus ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', ''Inspector Morse'', and ''Peak Practice''.〔〔 In later years, Ray was a committed member of Equity and served as a Councillor of the actors' union.〔() Andrew Ray's obituary on the British Equity website. Accessed January 1, 2008.〕 Andrew Ray died, at the age of 64, in 2003 from a heart attack.〔 His brother, Robin Ray, was a well-known television and radio personality, who died in 1998, also at the age of 64.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obituary: Robin Ray )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Ray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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