- Hungarian actor, director and choreographer, discovered while an ensemble dancer by Max Reinhardt in Budapest in 1907. Eventually became a leading actor with Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Began directing comedy two-reelers from 1913. Married the actress Maria Solveg in 1927. Moved to Hollywood in 1933, signed by MGM as choreographer and director of musical sequences.
- Choreographer.
- Ernst Matray was among others married with the actress Greta Schröder. The marriage ended in a divorce in 1924.
- Ernst Matray often played together with the actress Katta Sterna in this time who completed one another to a ideal film couple.
- In order to get by financially the couple Matray - Solveg also sold apartments along the way.
- Through Wilhelm Dieterle and Reinhold Schünzel he and his wife were able to gain a foothold in Hollywood. There he started together with her a new career as a choreographer for well-known movies.
- The actor Ernst Matray began his successful career at the theater with the engagement to the Deutsche Theater by the great Max Reinhardt.
- Because of his talent to impersonate odd figures he was soon engaged for different outsider figures. He impersonated a hunchback in "Sumurun" (1908), a fool in "Das Mirakel" (1911) where he also found out his dancing ability which was of advantage when he had to emigrate much later.
- At the beginning of 1915 he founded together with Ernst Lubitsch the Malu-Film company.
- Ernst Matray appeared among others in the movies "Weltbrand" (1920) and "Nathan der Weise" (1922) in the 20's but he was so busy with engagements at theaters that he nearly had a time for filming.
- Ernst Matray got married with the actress Maria Solveg in 1927, a sister of Katta Sterna, and they continued their career together.
- Together with his wife he had to emigrated via England to the USA in 1933.
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