Ralph Bellamy
Age: 87 | From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1904-06-17 21:16:31
Death: 1991-11-29 21:16:31
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 102
TV Involvements: 36
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937). His film career began with The Secret Six (1931) starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the end of 1933, he had already appeared in 22 movies, most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) and the second lead in the action film Picture Snatcher with James Cagney (1933). He played in seven more films in 1934 alone, including Woman in the Dark, based on a Dashiell Hammett story, in which Bellamy played the lead, second-billed under Fay Wray. Bellamy kept up the pace through the decade, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and played a similar part, that of a naive boyfriend competing with the sophisticated Grant character, in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his film career did not progress, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the 1950s. Bellamy appeared in other movies during this time, including Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) with Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball, and the horror classic The Wolf Man (1941) with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers. He also appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein in 1942 with Chaney and Bela Lugosi. Bellamy appeared in numerous television series. In 1949, Bellamy starred in the television noir private eye series Man Against Crime (also known as Follow That Man) on the DuMont Television Network; initially telecast live in its earliest seasons, the program lasted until 1956 and was simulcast for a season on Dumont and NBC, and ran on CBS during a different year. The lead role was taken by Frank Lovejoy in 1956, who subsequently starred in NBC's Meet McGraw detective series. An Emmy Award nomination for the mini-series The Winds of War (1983) – in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin D. Roosevelt – brought him back into the spotlight. Highly regarded within the industry, Bellamy served as a four-term President of Actors' Equity from 1952–1964. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Bellamy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Panelist
Rawhide
(1959) Marshal Hanson Dickson
Dr. Kildare
(1961) Dr. L Richard Starke
Climax!
(1954) Damon Runyon
The Invaders
(1967) Morgan Tate
Rosemary's Baby
(1968) Dr. Sapirstein
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Joel Todd
Gunsmoke
(1955) Sheriff BassettActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1990 | James Morse | |
| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1988 | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt | |
| Grandfather Frank | ||
| Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited) | ||
| 1987 | Mr. Gower | |
| Albert Dennison | ||
| 1986 | August Redding | |
| N/A | ||
| 1985 | N/A | |
| Abgarus | ||
| Self | ||
| 1984 | Dr. Sapirstein (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Sen. Christi | ||
| 1983 | Randolph Duke | |
| President Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ||
| Self | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1980 | William E. Ryker | |
| Lee Messenger | ||
| Ben Frelinghuysen | ||
| 1979 | Miles Larson | |
| 1978 | George Mathews | |
| Ezra Louthin | ||
| Lowell Baxter | ||
| 1977 | Sam Raven | |
| Arnold Hamilton | ||
| McVea | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1976 | Jerome Patterson | |
| Ed Caldwell | ||
| Dr. Gunther | ||
| Judge | ||
| Col. Edwin E. Aldrin | ||
| Moses Bellman | ||
| 1975 | Dr. Kenyon Walker | |
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Henderson | ||
| J.L. Dundeen | ||
| Capt. Fitzsimmons | ||
| 1974 | U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson | |
| Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1972 | John Ed | |
| Harry Lincoln | ||
| 1971 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Jake Porter | ||
| 1970 | N/A | |
| 1969 | Dr. Matthew Pearce | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Baylor Carlyle | ||
| 1968 | Dr. Sapirstein | |
| 1967 | Doug Sanborn | |
| Morgan Tate | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| Grant | ||
| Colonel Paul Montford | ||
| 1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Mark Dryden | ||
| Captain Jennerson | ||
| Cal Phillips | ||
| 1963 | N/A | |
| 1962 | Dr. L. Richard Starke | |
| Dr. Theodore Bassett | ||
| 1961 | Lambertson | |
| Dr. L Richard Starke | ||
| Judge Hansen | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1960 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | |
| Dobson | ||
| Governor Tom Barker | ||
| 1959 | Willard Mitchell | |
| Marshal Hanson Dickson | ||
| Judge Quince | ||
| 1958 | Theron | |
| 1957 | Detective Thorpe | |
| Walter Preston | ||
| 1956 | Joel Todd | |
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Congressman Frank R. Reid | |
| N/A | ||
| Sheriff Bassett | ||
| 1954 | Damon Runyon | |
| Hap Kennelly | ||
| Phillip Hardecker, Sr. | ||
| Det. Steve Maxton | ||
| 1953 | N/A | |
| Col. Tom Wheeler | ||
| 1951 | Pastor Anderson | |
| Theron | ||
| Joe McQuade | ||
| 1950 | Self | |
| Narrator | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1949 | Mike Barnett | |
| 1948 | Walter Preston | |
| Todd McNeill | ||
| N/A | ||
| Tice Collins | ||
| Self | ||
| 1946 | Narrator | |
| 1945 | Jonathan Waring | |
| Arthur Hale | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1944 | Douglas Proctor | |
| 1943 | Ralph Bellamy | |
| 1942 | Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein | |
| Major Lamphere | ||
| Stanley Gardner | ||
| Erik Ernst | ||
| 1941 | Colonel Montford | |
| Ellery Queen | ||
| Lance Rogers | ||
| Ellery Queen | ||
| Owen Wright | ||
| Ellery Queen | ||
| Dr. R.L. Davis | ||
| 1940 | Ellery Queen | |
| Lt. Brad Williams | ||
| Bruce Fairchild | ||
| Steve Adams | ||
| Agent Scott Langham | ||
| Clarence P. Fletcher | ||
| Bill Graves | ||
| Bruce Baldwin | ||
| 1939 | Lt. Raymond 'Ray' Dower | |
| Dr. Shelby | ||
| Lieutenant Everett | ||
| 1938 | Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| John Baxter | ||
| Ben Blodgett | ||
| Michael Hendragin | ||
| Stephen Arden | ||
| C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday | ||
| Phillip Chester | ||
| Dr. Paul Hallet | ||
| 1937 | Dan Leeson | |
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| Russ Matthews | ||
| Kirk Duncan | ||
| 1936 | Johnny Pierce | |
| Brian Kent | ||
| Dr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley | ||
| Curt Hayden | ||
| John Vickery | ||
| Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey | ||
| 1935 | Allen Macklyn | |
| Dr. Quentin Harden | ||
| Dr. Holden | ||
| Barry Eldon | ||
| Steve Andrews | ||
| Fredrik Sobieski | ||
| Terry Gallagher | ||
| Commissioner Robert Edmonds | ||
| J.F. Van Avery | ||
| 1934 | John Bradley | |
| Insp. Steve Trent | ||
| Insp. Steve Trent | ||
| Insp. Steve Trent | ||
| Jim Dunlap | ||
| Dr. James Barclay | ||
| George Fleetwood | ||
| 1933 | Insp. Steve Trent | |
| Jeff | ||
| Captain Blake | ||
| Jim Steele | ||
| Hal | ||
| 'Speed' Hardy | ||
| Eric Whittenson | ||
| J.R. 'Al' McLean | ||
| Stowaway | ||
| McCreary | ||
| Joseph B. 'Joe' Smith | ||
| 1932 | Jack Marbury | |
| Mike Miller | ||
| Deene Maxwell | ||
| Dr Ladd | ||
| John Bruce | ||
| Judge Blake | ||
| Captain Tom Manning | ||
| Holland | ||
| 1931 | Captain Ebbing | |
| Mac - The Ranch Foreman | ||
| Bill Childers | ||
| Johnny Franks | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
