First impressions are everything in show business, and Gene Anthony Ray knew how to make an unforgettable one. In his introductory scene as Leroy Johnson, a street-smart, rebellious dance prodigy ...

First impressions are everything in show business and throughout his too-short career, Gene Anthony Ray knew how to make an indelible one. First impressions are everything in show business and ...

Gene Anthony Ray, 41, an actor and dancer best known for his roles in the 1980 movie “Fame” and its spin-off television series, died Nov. 14 in New York. Ray died in Manhattan of complications ...

Gene Anthony Ray and Irene Cara, who sings the celebrated title song, star as students at New York's High School for the Performing Arts. They are struggling to graduate in order to find fame (I'm ...

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New York (AP) -- Gene Anthony Ray, an actor and dancer best known for his roles in the 1980 movie "Fame" and its spin-off television series, died Friday in Manhattan of complications from a stroke.

Actor and dancer Gene Anthony Ray, best known for his role as Leroy Johnson in the film and TV series Fame, has died aged 41 of complications from a stroke. Ray, who was also HIV positive, died last ...

All bets are on Naturi Naughton to be the breakout star of the reinvented "Fame," as Irene Cara and, to a lesser degree, Gene Anthony Ray were in the 1980 original. Naughton, 25, has a bold ...

Gene Anthony Ray, who died on Friday in New York City aged 41, leapt to stardom as Leroy Johnson, the electric dancer from Harlem in Alan Parker's film Fame (1980). Fame was a cleverly edited ...

Gene Anthony Ray, who starred as Leroy, a street-smart urban teenager, in the 1980 movie Fame and the later TV series, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 41. The cause was complications of a ...