Brad Pitt's character in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds is "Lt. Aldo Raine." It's a homage to Aldo Ray, the star of the same... Aldo Ray: Tarantino's Anti-'Basterd' At the beginning of ...
In comic roles, Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's "Pat and Mike" (1952) and an escaped convict in Michael Curtiz's "We're No Angels" (1955). By the mid-50s Ray was typecast as a hot-blooded ...