1. Gregory Gaye was a cadet in the Imperial Russian Navy and began his stage career in Europe and in the Orient before going to the United States after the Russian Revolution in 1923.
25 Facts About Gregory Gaye
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Gregory Gaye appeared in small roles in over a hundred movies.
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Gregory Gaye's first role was a bit part in the 1928 John Barrymore silent film Tempest, set during the Russian Revolution.
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Gregory Gaye's first credited role was as Prince Ordinsky in the 1929 Will Rogers comedy They Had to See Paris.
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Later in 1929, Gregory Gaye received a bit part in the John Ford film The Black Watch starring Victor McLaglen.
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In 1932, Gregory Gaye played Rudolph Kammerling in the comedy Once in a Lifetime about a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Two years later, Gregory Gaye received a good role as Baron Kurt Von Obersdorf in Dodsworth starring Walter Huston and Mary Astor.
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In 1937, Gregory Gaye portrayed a pianist named Dmitri 'Didi' Shekoladnikoff in the comedy Mama Steps Out starring Guy Kibbee.
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Gregory Gaye continued to play the role of aristocrats like Count Frederic Brekenski in Warner Bros.
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Later that year, Gregory Gaye received the part of Popoff in the comedy Too Hot to Handle starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy.
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In 1941, Gregory Gaye played Von Mueller in They Dare Not Love starring George Brent and Paul Lukas.
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In 1942, Gregory Gaye played a Nazi spy and saboteur named Feldon in Columbia's spy serial Secret Code.
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Gregory Gaye played the part of Joe Sapphire in a small crime drama The Tiger Woman.
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In 1946, Gregory Gaye received a role in a small mystery Passkey to Danger.
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Gregory Gaye got a small role in Cargo to Capetown, starring Broderick Crawford.
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Gregory Gaye received a part in Republic's science-fiction serial Flying Disc Man from Mars.
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Gregory Gaye appeared in the adventure film Mask of the Avenger, starring Anthony Quinn.
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In 1955, Gregory Gaye portrayed an ex-Nazi mad scientist who teams up with a mobster to bring dead gangsters to life in Columbia's science-fiction B horror movie Creature with the Atom Brain.
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Gregory Gaye appeared in Kelly and Me, starring Van Johnson, in 1957 and the following year as Vladimir Klinkoff in Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell.
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Gregory Gaye played "The Ruler" in the Republic Films serial Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.
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Later that year, Gregory Gaye appeared as General Erwin Rommel in Hitler, starring Richard Basehart in the title role.
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Gregory Gaye did not appear in any more movies until the late 1970s.
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Gregory Gaye appeared in a couple of television movies before, at age 79, he did his last movie, the science-fiction disaster film Meteor where he had a small role as the Soviet Premier in 1979.
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Gregory Gaye was predeceased, in 1985, by second wife Frances Lee, whom he had married in 1944.
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Gregory Gaye was cremated and his ashes are held privately.