Gary Gray

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Gary Dickson Gray (December 18, 1936 – April 4, 2006) was an American child actor in films, and as an adult in television.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Gray was the son of a film business manager, whose clients Bert Wheeler and Jack Benny suggested the child should be used in films. Gray made his film debut in the Joan Crawford film A Woman's Face in 1941, and played minor roles in such popular films as Heaven Can Wait (1943), Gaslight (1944) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). He played more substantial roles, including Return of the Bad Men (1948), with Randolph Scott, and Rachel and the Stranger (also 1948) with Robert Mitchum.

By the time he graduated from high school he had appeared in more than 70 films, however as an adult his acting roles were fairly few, and were mainly for television. By the early 1960s he had retired from acting and concentrated on raising his family and building a swimming pool business.

He died in Brush Prairie, Washington from cancer.