John Randolph Bray (August 25, 1879 – October 10, 1978) was an American animator, cartoonist, and film producer.

Bray enrolled at the Michigan's Alma College for a degree in civil engineering, but dropped out after a year.

[3] After he dropped out of college, Bray was a journalist for the Detroit Evening Press, however this proved fruitless.

[6] By 1914, he opened a New York area studio specifically organized to make animated films.

[7] Unlike newspaper cartoonist Winsor McCay, who had been making short animated films for several years, Bray organized his studio according to the principles of industrial production, an approach that Raoul Barré, another animator, also adopted at around the same time.

Bray visited Winsor McCay during his production of Gertie the Dinosaur and claimed to be a journalist writing an article about animation.