Billy Gray

One-time owner of the Band Box, a comedy club previously owned by Lou Costello. Among the performers were Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Buddy Hackett, Polly Bergen, Alan King, Billy Barty, Don Rickles, and Jackie Gleason. For decades, Canter's Deli, which moved to Fairfax Avenue near the club in 1948, has offered the Billy Gray's Band Box Special: an open-faced chopped liver, minced onion, and chopped egg sandwich with coleslaw.

Portrays Bryan Foy as a teen in The Seven Little Foys (1955).

Sued by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe after he recorded Sid Kuller's satiric review of "My Fair Lady" called "My Fairfax Lady", which had enjoyed a five-year run at Gray's comedy club, the Band Box, from 1956 to 1961.

In July, 1998, Billy Gray settled a libel suit he brought against noted film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, known for his annual guides on available movies and videos. In all guides from 1974 to 1998, Maltin mistakenly listed Mr. Gray as a real-life drug addict and pusher in the critique of Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971). Billy appeared in the film only as an actor. Part of the suit brought against 'Leonard Maltin' required that he publicly apologize for the 27-year long defamation of character. He did so, during a press conference, on the morning of July 18, 1998.

His resemblance to actor Martin Sheen was exploited in the film short Porklips Now (1980), a parody of Apocalypse Now (1979), where he played the character of Health Inspector Will Dullard, based om Sheen's performance of Capt. Benjamin L. Willard.