Ray Doyle was primarily known as a vaudevillian song and dance man. He was born in Boston around 1898 to William and Mary Doyle. Both his parents were native to Massachusetts with parents who had come from Ireland. Ray's father worked at a local barbershop in Boston.

Ray Doyle took to the stage at around age seven, appearing in such plays as "East Lynn" and "Topsy and Eva" with the New England Stock Company. He began performing on the vaudeville circuit in 1916 and, except for stint with the US Army during the First World War, continued until vaudeville's decline forced him to go into the restaurant business. At the time of his death he had been general manager and host of Cavanagh's Restaurant in New York City for sixteen years. Ray was also remembered for donated his time helping the NYPD combat juvenile delinquency.

Ray Doyle suffering a heart attack and later died at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan on 15 June, 1954. He was survived by his wife Lillian Gormley Doyle and son Ray J. Doyle.

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