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Holy Cross Cemetery. Maintained by: Find a Grave. Originally Created by: Kenneth McNeil. Added: Jun 8, 2002. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6488322. Source citation. Actor. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1902, he was a versatile character performer whom appeared in over 250 movies and nearly a 100 television programs in his 37-year career.
Never a big star, Ray Teal managed to have a nearly 40-year stint as a scowling character actor. He was best known for playing Sheriff Roy Coffee on the classic TV Western "Bonanza" from 1960 to 1972.
Biography. Never a big star, Ray Teal managed to have a nearly 40-year stint as a scowling character actor. He was best known for playing Sheriff Roy Coffee on the classic TV Western "Bonanza" from 1960 to 1972. Teal didn't aspire to be an actor, not landing his first role until his mid-30s. Before then, he was a saxophone player and a ...
Working his way through college as a saxophone player, Teal became a bandleader upon graduation, remaining in the musical world until 1936. In 1938, Teal was hired to act in the low-budget Western Jamboree, and though he played a variety of bit parts as cops, taxi drivers and mashers, he seemed more at home in Westerns.
Strange Voyage. The Liberation of L.B. Jones. The Lion and the Horse. The Long Night. The Thin Man Goes Home. Third Finger, Left Hand. Utah Blaine. Walk a Crooked Mile. The Tall Stranger.
Ray Teal. Actor. Born January 12, 1902 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Most familiar to TV audiences as no-nonsense Sheriff Roy Coffee on the long-running western series Bonanza (1959), Ray Teal was one of the most versatile character actors in the business. In his almost 40-year career he played everything from cops to gunfighters to sheriffs ...
Never a big star, Ray Teal managed to have a nearly 40-year stint as a scowling character actor. He was best known for playing Sheriff Roy Coffee on the classic TV Western "Bonanza" from 1960 to 1972. Teal didn't aspire to be an actor, not landing his first role until his mid-30s.
