Actor, Stuntman. He was also known as Ray Thompson. He was best known for playing the roles of crooks and foreman, usually in comedy films, action-adventure films, and western films, alongside the likes of Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. He will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Malbihn' in the action-adventure film, "The Son Of Tarzan" (1920). The film which was directed by Arthur J. Flaven and Harry Revier, which was written for the screen by Roy Somerville, which was based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and which also starred Kamuela C. Searle, P. Dempsey Tabler, Nita Martin, Karla Schramm, Gordon Griffith, Mae Giraci, Eugene Burr, Frank Morrell, and Louise Emmons, tells the story of Tarzan's son, Jack, who escapes captivity and retreats into the jungle with an ape, where he finds love in unexpected places. He was born one of two children as Raymond E. Thompson in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Harry Thompson and his wife Annie Hess Thompson, on July 15, 1889 (another source says 1892 or 1898). He was educated locally and was drafted during World War I, but he never served. He later moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career and to work as a stuntman. He made his actual film debut playing in the short ten-minute comedy film, "Luke's Newsie Knockout" (1916). The film which was directed by and produced by Hal Roach of "Our Gang" fame, also starred Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Charles Stevenson, and Harry Todd. This was soon followed by "Luke Locates The Loot" (1916), "Luke's Shattered Sleep" (1916), "Luke's Lost Liberty" (1917), and "Lonesome Luke's Lively (1917). Besides, playing the role 'Malbihn' in the action-adventure film, "The Son Of Tarzan" (1920), playing in the short ten-minute comedy film, "Luke's Newsie Knockout" (1916), and "Luke Locates The Loot" (1916), "Luke's Shattered Sleep" (1916), "Luke's Lost Liberty" (1917), and "Lonesome Luke's Lively (1917), his many other film credits include, "The Heart Of A Child" (1920), "Queen's Up!" (1920), "When A Man A Man" (1924), "Horse Sense" (1924), "Go West" (1925), "The Enchanted Hill" (1926), "The General" (1926), "The Fighting Buckaroo" (1926), and "Should Sleepwalkers Marry?" (1927). Besides acting he was also a Hollywood stuntman. His film credits as a stuntman include, "The Toll Gate" (1920), and "Quincy Adams Sawyer" (1922). His last film that he worked on as a stuntman, was the action-adventure film drama, "The Trail Of '98" (1928). The film which was directed by Clarence Brown, which was written for the screen by Benjamin Glazer and Joseph Farnham, which was based on the novel, "The Trail Of '98," by Robert W. Service, and which also starred Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes, and Karl Dane, tells the story of fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey. On June 29, 1927, while working on a gold rush scene for the film which was being made through for Metro-Goldyn-Mayer Studios he drowned with one other men in the rapids of the Copper River, near Valdez-Cordova, Alaska. The accident happened when he jumped overboard from the boat with fellow stuntman J. Gordon Carveth that they were riding into the frigid waters. Carveth made it to shore but he did not. In a second boat that was following from behind F. H. Daughters, 23, from Spokane, Washington, accidentally fell into the waters afterward and he too was quickly swept away by the current. Another man Joseph Bautin, 24, of Juneau, Alaska, jumped down from the work cable he was on to help but he also drowned in the frigid water after trying to save the lives of the other two men. One other Hollywood, California, stuntman named Tom Granville was also rescued from the rapids. The body of F.H. Daughters was recovered and it was sent to his parents in Syracuse, New York, for burial, while Joseph Bautin and Raymond E. "Red" Thompson's bodies were never found. The coroner blamed the film company for the deaths. He was married to Harrietta Emma Meloche (or Malosh) Thompson (1893-1975), in Los Angeles, California, on June 30, 1920. Ironically her twin sister Lorrieta Ellen Meloche (or Malosh, 1893-1973), married on the same day, and in the same location. The couple had no children together. His wife Harrietta was subsequently married to Joseph R. Boyd, but they were later divorced. He was featured in the episode entitled, "Hazard Of The Game," of the television documentary mini-series, "Hollywood" (1980), which was a tribute to the death-defying and sometimes deadly art of the silent movie stuntman.