---
name: "Billy Gray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/billy-gray-3162"
fi1m_id: "billy-gray-3162"
imdb_id: "nm0336474"
tmdb_id: 3162
wikidata_id: "Q4912632"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 January 1938"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:07:33.647751+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."
---

# Billy Gray

## Identity

Billy Gray

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/billy-gray-3162
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** billy-gray-3162
- **IMDb ID:** nm0336474
- **TMDB ID:** 3162
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4912632
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Gray_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3162

Actor. Born 13 January 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 January 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Also known as:** William Thomas Gray, Billie Gray, Bill Gray, William Gray
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Gray_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3162

## Biography

Billy Gray (born William Thomas Gray) is an American actor. He was born on 13 January 1938 in Los Angeles, California, and began acting as a child. His mother, Beatrice Gray, was also an actress.

Gray played Bobby Benson in the film *The Day the Earth Stood Still* (1951). He is best known for his role as Bud Anderson in the television series *Father Knows Best* (1954–1960), for which he received an Emmy nomination. Other film credits include *On Moonlight Bay* (1951), *By the Light of the Silvery Moon* (1953) and *All I Desire* (1953).

After his acting career slowed, Gray worked as a competitive motorcycle racer, inventor and businessman.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Day the Earth Stood Still* (1951), Fi1m 82, as Bobby Benson — [page](https://film.one/film/the-day-the-earth-stood-still.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

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

- *The Vampyre Wars* (1996), as Majordomo
- *Porklips Now* (1980), as Dullard
- *Love and Bullets* (1979), as Officer Durant
- *Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas* (1977), as Bud Anderson
- *The Father Knows Best Reunion* (1977), as James Anderson Jr.
- *Werewolves on Wheels* (1971), as Pill
- *Dusty and Sweets McGee* (1971), as City Life
- *The Ping-Pong Match* (1968), as Ping Pong Player
- *The Navy vs. the Night Monsters* (1966), as CPO Fred Twining
- *That Girl* (1966), series, Actor
- *The Greatest Show on Earth* (1963), series, as Nick
- *Arrest and Trial* (1963), series, as Colin Martin
- *Two for the Seesaw* (1962), as Monsieur Jacoby
- *Stagecoach West* (1960), series, as Frankie Niles
- *The Scarlet Hour* (1956), as Tom Rycker
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Perry Hatch
- *The Seven Little Foys* (1955), as Bryan Lincoln Foy
- *Father Knows Best* (1954), series, as Bud Anderson
- *The Outlaw Stallion* (1954), as Danny Saunders
- *All I Desire* (1953), as Ted Murdoch
- *The Girl Next Door* (1953), as Joe Carter
- *By the Light of the Silvery Moon* (1953), as Wesley Winfield
- *Adventures of Superman* (1952), series, as Alan Harper
- *Talk About a Stranger* (1952), as Robert 'Bud' Fontaine Jr.
- *The Day the Earth Stood Still* (1951), as Bobby Benson — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-day-the-earth-stood-still.md)
- *The Guy Who Came Back* (1951), as Willy Joplin
- *On Moonlight Bay* (1951), as Wesley Winfield
- *Racket Squad* (1951), series, Actor
- *Her First Romance* (1951), as Boy at Camp Barracks (uncredited)
- *So You Want to Be a Cowboy* (1951), as Little Boy Movie Patron with Lollipop
- *Gene Autry and the Mounties* (1951), as Ned (uncredited)
- *Sierra Passage* (1950), as Young Johnny Yorke
- *The Killer That Stalked New York* (1950), as Pinkie (uncredited)
- *Between Midnight and Dawn* (1950), as Peter J. 'Petey' Conklin (uncredited)
- *Mister 880* (1950), as Mickey (uncredited)
- *The Gene Autry Show* (1950), series, as Eddie Baker, Jimmy Foster
- *In a Lonely Place* (1950), as Young Boy Seeking Autograph (uncredited)
- *Kill the Umpire* (1950), as Boy Playing Baseball (uncredited)
- *The Good Humor Man* (1950), as Junior (uncredited)
- *Singing Guns* (1950), Actor
- *Father Is a Bachelor* (1950), as Feb Chalotte
- *Abandoned* (1949), as Tough Kid in Park (uncredited)
- *The House Across the Street* (1949), as Boy (uncredited)
- *Lust for Gold* (1949), as Boy
- *Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff* (1949), as Boy With Bow and Arrow (uncredited)
- *Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath* (1948), Actor
- *Fighting Father Dunne* (1948), as Chip
- *The Judge Steps Out* (1947), as Boy at Birthday Party (uncredited)
- *The Gangster* (1947), as Little Boy (uncredited)
- *Curley* (1947), as Sandy
- *Backlash* (1947), as Denny
- *The Strange Woman* (1946), as Boy on Bridge (uncredited)
- *Rendezvous with Annie* (1946), as Little Boy (uncredited)
- *Specter of the Rose* (1946), as Jack Jones
- *Suspense* (1946), as Small Boy at Zoo (uncredited)
- *Our Old Car* (1946), as Boy (uncredited)
- *Cluny Brown* (1946), as Richard Watkins
- *To Each His Own* (1946), as Billy Ingham
- *Adventures of Rusty* (1945), as Harry (uncredited)
- *The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry* (1945), Actor
- *A Present with a Future* (1943), as Billy (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Photo of Billy Gray from the television program Father Knows Best. (1958)](https://film.one/media/person/3868693/gallery-49adfafb5037.jpg) Photo of Billy Gray from the television program Father Knows Best. (1958) — Rogers & Cowan, publicity agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Billy_Gray_1958.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Billy Gray](https://film.one/media/person/3868693/gallery-4ccda6224a50.jpg) Billy Gray — NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Billy_Gray_1977.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Billy Gray](https://film.one/media/person/3868693/gallery-50c8f2f9abeb.jpg) Billy Gray — Image via TMDB
- ![Billy Gray](https://film.one/media/person/3868693/gallery-e1d5e24833d7.jpg) Billy Gray — Image via TMDB

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