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 strok… ...

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 ...