Billy Gray Biography

Fast Facts

• His portrayal of a disheveled drug addict in "Dusty and Sweets McGee" was so convincing that critic Leonard Maltin made the false claim that Gray was a real-life drug dealer and addict, causing a libel suit that was settled out of court
• Born to Beatrice Gray, a frequently uncredited Hollywood actress, he once acted in the same movie with his mother, an uncredited role in the 1949 film "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff․"
• As of June 2013, his most recent film credit came in the 1996 movie "The Vampyre Wars․"
• Still lives in the house in Topanga, Calif․, which he purchased in 1957 during the original run of CBS's TV series "Father Knows Best․"
• Co-owner of BigRock Engineering, a company that markets his inventions such as hi-tech guitar picks and accessories and a device for relieving back pain through self-massage
• In interviews, he has claimed to have had more than 1,000 minor crashes on motorcycles throughout his career
• Raced motorcycles competitively on dirt tracks from 1970 to 1995