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A minor (in both senses of the word) comedian from New York, Bobby Ray (real name Robert Fuhrer) co-starred with Oliver Hardy in four Mirthquake Comedies in 1925, a teaming that suggested the embryonic Laurel and Hardy. Ray, needless to say, was no Stan Laurel and the resemblance was purely superficial. The little comic went behind the camera after this brief partnership, directing Danny O'Shea in the service comedy Dugan of the Dugouts (1928) and then functioning as editor and/or assistant director on scores of mainly low-budget films, ranging from John Wayne's His Private Secretary (1932) to Navajo Trail, a 1945 Johnny Mack Brown oater.