Ray Anthony

Bandleader + Trumpeter + Songwriter

Male

Born Jan 20, 1922

Age 91

Hometown Pennsylvania

Genres Bandleader

Instruments Trumpet

Performed With Frank Sinatra + G...

Record Label Capitol Records

Ray Anthony is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.

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Romance

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Tina Louise
Fling 1959
Gloria Grahame
Married 1957 - 1974
Mamie Van Doren
Married 1955 - 1961
Linda Christian
Fling

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Big Band Leader Ray Anthony Lists Hollywood Hills Home
LATimes - Jun 05, 2012

Custom-built for Ray Anthony in 1975, the 3,881-square-foot house includes a gym, two fireplaces, two bedrooms and three bathrooms. The trumpeter has performed with Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey, among others. Big-band leader and trumpeter Ray Anthony has put his home in the Hollywood Hills West area on the market at $5.2 million.
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Homeless Military Vet Charged With 4 Felonies And 2 Misdemeanors In Kansas Tv Station Attack
Fox News - May 25, 2012

A homeless military veteran has been charged with breaking into a Kansas television station and attacking several employees. Shawnee County records show four felonies and two misdemeanors were filed late Thursday against 48-year-old Ray Anthony Miles. He remained jailed Friday on $100,000 bond in Wednesday's melee at WIBW-TV in Topeka. The station said the man became upset after learning that it would not do a story about his p...
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Four Men Charged For Conspiracy To Rob Florissant Bank
Florissant Patch - May 03, 2012

A federal grand jury indicted four men Thursday morning for the conspiracy to rob a bank in Florissant last year. Anthony McCallister, Otis McCallister, Ray Anthony Bassett and Willie James Bassett Jr. all face charges in relation to a conspiracy to rob a Pulaski Bank November 4, 2011. Anthony McCallister and Otis McCallister have each been indicted on a felony count of solicitation to commit a crime. Otis McCallister is currently serving a 37-year fe...
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Be Responsible When Following Your Passions
The BG News - May 01, 2012

Ray Anthony’s rendition of “Pete Kelly’s Blues” oozed from the jukebox. I returned from the bar with a pitcher of beer and a large bowl of popcorn.
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1922 Birth Born on January 20, 1922.

TEENAGE

1940 18 Years Old As a child Anthony, born Raymond Antonini in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied the trumpet with his father. He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940–1941 and appeared in the Glenn Miller movie Sun Valley Serenade in 1941 before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II. … Read More

THIRTIES

1952 30 Years Old He had a #2 chart hit with a remake of the Glenn Miller tune, "At Last" in 1952.

1953 31 Years Old From 1953-1954 Anthony was the musical director on the television series TV's Top Tunes, and he also appeared as himself in the 1955 film Daddy Long Legs.

1955 33 Years Old In 1955 Anthony married his second wife, the sex symbol actress Mamie Van Doren. … Read More

1956 34 Years Old He starred in a short-lived television 1956-1957 variety show, The Ray Anthony Show. … Read More

1958 36 Years Old After van Doren filed for divorce in 1958, citing cruelty, they finally divorced in 1960, and Anthony's brief film career ended at about the same time. … Read More

1959 37 Years Old In the 1959-1960 television season, he guest starred in the episode "Operation Ramrod" of David Hedison's espionage series Five Fingers on NBC.

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