Jay Morley
Morley, photographed by Witzel Studios
Born	(1890-07-14)July 14, 1890 Port Orange, Florida, U.S.
Died	November 9, 1976(1976-11-09) (aged 86) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1913–1931, 1950–1951

Jay Morley (July 14, 1890 – November 9, 1976),^[1] was an American actor, active in silent films.

Career

Morley began his acting career in a traveling vaudeville act^[2] and performed in dramas with stock theater companies for five years.^[1] He had success in silent films, but retired at the beginning of the sound era to serve as sheriff of Malibu.^[3] He returned to films and television in the early 1950s.^[3]

Filmography

• The Man Who Tried to Forget (1913)
• Elsie Venner (1914)
• The Getaway (1914)
• The City (1914)
• Man to Man (1914)
• The Best Man (1914)
• The School Teacher at Angel Camp (1914)
• In the Background (1915)
• What Money Will Do (1915)
• The Discontented Man (1915)
• The Taunt (1915)
• The Red Virgin (1915)
• When the Wires Crossed (1915)
• The Emerald God (1915)
• The Lonely Fisherman (1915)
• A Night in Old Spain (1915)
• Margie of the Underworld (1915)
• The Death Web (1915)
• The Palace of Dust (1915)
• The New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke (1915)
• Meg o' the Cliffs (1915)
• When a Queen Loved O'Rourke (1915)
• The Legend of the Poisoned Pool (1915)
• With Stolen Money (1915)
• The Road to Paradise (1915)
• Saved from the Harem (1915)
• The Convict King (1915)
• The Lost Bracelet (1916)
• The Old Watchman (1916)
• The Little Sister of the Poor (1916)
• Two News Items (1916)
• A Modern Paul (1916)
• The Repentant (1916)
• At the Doors of Doom (1916)
• A Sister to Cain (1916)
• The Return of James Jerome (1916)
• One of the Pack (1916)
• The Candle (1916)
• The Beggar King (1916)
• The Half Wit (1916)
• By Right of Love (1916)
• Their Mother (1916)
• Who Knows? (1917)
• Loyalty (1917)
• Humility (1918)
• Blindfolded (1918)
• An Alien Enemy (1918)
• Ace High (1918)
• Todd of the Times (1919)
• The Usurper (1919)
• The Busher (1919)
• The Little Boss (1919)
• Over the Garden Wall (1919)
• A Fighting Colleen (1919)
• The Invisible Hand (1920)
• Pegeen (1920)
• Telemachus, Friend (1920)
• The Green Flame (1920)
• The Woman Untamed (1920)
• The Roads We Take (1920)
• The Call Loan (1920)
• Fighting Fate (1921)
• The Honor of Rameriz (1921)
• The Heart of Doreon (1921)
• Trailin' (1921)
• The Verdict (1922)
• In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)
• The Man Who Waited (1922)
• Crimson Gold (1923)
• Out of Luck (1923)
• Rustlin' (1923)
• Face to Face (1923)
• The Wolf Trapper (1923)
• No Tenderfoot (1923)
• The Twilight Trail (1923)
• Waterfront Wolves (1924)
• Paying the Limit (1924)
• Wanted by the Law (1924)
• Getting Her Man (1924)
• Three Days to Live (1924)
• Behind Two Guns (1924)
• Reckless Courage (1925)
• With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail (1926)
• Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926)
• With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926)
• Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927)
• The Mojave Kid (1927)
• The Slingshot Kid (1927)
• Driftin' Sands (1928)
• Man in the Rough (1928)
• Trail of Courage (1928)
• Come and Get It! (1929)
• The Amazing Vagabond (1929)
• Near the Trail's End (1931)
• The Lone Ranger (1950) – TV series
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Dark City (1950)
• Mr. Music (1950)
• The Enforcer (1951)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)