Porter, Ray

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Porter, Ray

PERSONAL

Education: California Institute of the Arts, B.F.A.

Addresses:

Agent—Geddes Agency, 8430 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

Career:

Actor. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR, member of company, beginning 1990. Also worked as casting director.

Member:

Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity Association.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Title role, Moses (short film), Nest Learning, 1993.

Bill, Follow the Bitch, Gurney Releasing, c. 1995.

(Uncredited) Radio voice, Tender Loving Care, Aftermath, 1997.

Roadie Mick, Almost Famous (also known as Something Real, Stillwater, The Uncool, and Untitled Cameron Crowe Project), DreamWorks, 2000, director's cut released as Untitled: Almost Famous the Bootleg Cut..

Voice of Grisham, The Scarecrow (animated musical), Warner Home Video, 2000.

Billy, Hot Rush, Decel Entertainment, 2002.

Jeff, Sin, Columbia/TriStar, 2003.

Film Casting Director:

Joseph in Egypt (short film), Nest Learning, 1992.

Moses (short film), Nest Learning, 1993.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Abraham, Bible Battles, History Channel, 2005.

Priest of the oracle, Last Stand of the 3000, History Channel, 2007.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Young man, "The Last Temptation of Murphy," Murphy Brown, CBS, 1998.

Sam Broder, "Choosing Joi," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1999.

Sam Broder, "Point of Origin," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1999.

Sam Broder, "The Longer You Stay," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 2001.

Dwayne, "The Show Must Go Off," Frasier (also known as Dr. Frasier Crane), NBC, 2001.

Dad, "He Shoots, They Snore," Will & Grace, NBC, 2002.

Jeff, "Two Rooms," In-Laws, NBC, 2003.

"Well Endowed," Dragnet (also known as L.A. Dragnet), ABC, 2003.

Derrick, "Dad's Back," The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (also known as The Suite Life and TSL), Disney Channel, 2004.

(Uncredited) Putt putt golf man, "Four Dreams: Part 1," Medium, NBC, 2006.

"Stranger in Your Bedroom," What about Brian?, ABC, 2006.

Also appeared in Santa Barbara, NBC.

Stage Appearances:

Lawrence, Emma's Child, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR, 1994.

Moliere, Moliere Plays Paris, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Angus Bowmer Theatre, Ashland, OR, 1996.

Iachimo, Cymbeline, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1998.

Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1998.

Duane, El Paso Blue, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Black Swan Theatre, Ashland, OR, 1999.

Montjoy, Henry V, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2000.

Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night (also known as Twelfth Night, or What You Will), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2000.

Millet, Fuddy Meers, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Black Swan Theatre, 2001.

Sir John Falstaff, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2001.

Autolycus, The Winter's Tale, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2002.

Saturninus, Titus Andronicus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Elizabethan Stage, Ashland, OR, 2002.

Edward of York, Henry VI, Part 1, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Theatre, Ashland, OR, 2004.

Edward of York, Henry VI, Part 2, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Elizabethan Stage, 2004.

Edward of York, Henry VI, Part 3, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Elizabethan Stage, 2004.

Kent, King Lear, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2004.

Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Angus Bowmer Theatre, c. 2004.

Costard, Love's Labour's Lost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Elizabethan Ampitheatre, Ashland, OR, 2005.

Mephostophilis, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2005.

Dad, Distracted, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 2007.

Appeared as Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA. Made various appearances with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR, including appearances as Dromio, The Comedy of Errors, as Aufidas, Coriolanus, as Etienne, A Flea in Her Ear, as Oswald, King Lear, as Valere, La Bete, as Dogberry, Much Ado about Nothing, as Howie, Our Town, and as Alcibiades, Timon of Athens.