Carol Raye

Carol Raye

Acting
1923-01-17
London, England, UK

Biography

Born in Rotherhithe, London as Kathleen Mary Corkrey, after a series of stage and film roles in the UK, she continued her career in Kenya, then Australia, where she became established as a TV performer and a pioneering producer.

Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles

#1Number 96

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

4.3 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production company, produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects. The premise, original story outlines, and the original characters were devised by David Sale who also wrote the scripts for the first episodes and continued as script editor for much of the show's run. The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977. Number 96 was so popular it spawned a feature film version, filmed in December 1973. Number 96 was known for its sex scenes and nudity, somewhat risque at the time, and for its comedy characters. The series was the first Australian soap opera to feature an openly gay character.

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#2The Young Doctors

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
SoapDrama

The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, rather than typical medical issues and procedures. It screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March 1983.

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#3The Journalist

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Maggie

4.8 / 10
Comedy

Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.

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#4Remember Me

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Jenny's Mother

8.0 / 10
MysteryDramaHorror

A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. She is torn between her still strong desire for him, and her fear, which comes from events in their past. She cannot control his intrusion into both her current life and her second marriage, and tragedy ensues.

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#5Waltz Time

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Empress Maria

10.0 / 10
Music

Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.

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#6Strawberry Roan

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Molly Lowe

6.5 / 10
Drama

Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.

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#7Spring Song

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Janet Hill / Janet Ware

7.3 / 10
DramaMusic

The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.

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#8While I Live

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Sally Grant

6.9 / 10
Thriller

In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.

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#9Green Fingers

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Jeannie Mansell

6.6 / 10
Drama

A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.

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