The time was right for someone like Gene Anthony Ray to take his place in the spotlight. It was the spring of 1980 when Fame was released to movie theaters.Disco was dead. MTV was yet to be born.

The time was right for Gene Anthony Ray to take the spotlight. It was the spring of 1980 when Fame was released to movie theaters.Disco was dead. MTV was yet to be born. Off The Wall, Michael ...

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.

Gene Anthony Ray was born on May 24 1962 in Harlem and grew up street dancing. Later, like his character in Fame, he enrolled at the High School of the Performing Arts, only to be expelled after ...

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. He was 41.

Gene Anthony Ray was best known for his all-singing, all-dancing part as Leroy Johnson in the Alan Parker picture Fame (1980). The film, which won an Oscar for Best Original Score and managed to ...

Naughton makes her mark with bold voice. 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...