---
name: "Ardel Wray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ardel-wray"
fi1m_id: "ardel-wray"
imdb_id: "nm0942027"
tmdb_id: 100984
wikidata_id: "Q27995558"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 October 1907"
died: "15 October 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T03:32:09.518745+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ardel Wray

## Identity

Ardel Wray

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ardel-wray
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ardel-wray
- **IMDb ID:** nm0942027
- **TMDB ID:** 100984
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27995558
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardel_Wray, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27995558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942027/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100984

Writer. Born 28 October 1907 in Spokane, Washington, USA. Died 15 October 1983.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 October 1907, Spokane, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 15 October 1983
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardel_Wray, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27995558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942027/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100984

## Biography

Ardel Wray (née Mockbee) was an American screenwriter and story editor. Born in Spokane, Washington, on 28 October 1907, she was the daughter of actress Virginia Brissac and had a stepfather who was a film director. She entered the industry in the early 1930s as a story analyst.

Wray is best known for her work with producer Val Lewton at RKO in the 1940s. Her credits include the screenplay for *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943, co-written with Curt Siodmak), the screenplay for *The Leopard Man* (1943), and the screenplay for *Isle of the Dead* (1945). She also contributed to *The Falcon and the Co-eds* (1943) and *Youth Runs Wild* (1944).

In a later career in television, she worked as a writer and story editor on series including *77 Sunset Strip*, *The Roaring 20's* and *The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters*. Wray died on 14 October 1983.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, brightlightsfilm.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/i-walked-with-a-zombie.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bride of Vengeance* (1949), Writer
- *Isle of the Dead* (1945), Screenplay
- *Youth Runs Wild* (1944), Additional Dialogue
- *The Falcon and the Co-Eds* (1943), Screenplay, Story
- *The Leopard Man* (1943), Screenplay
- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/i-walked-with-a-zombie.md)

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ardel-wray