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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 17, 1904
Died
November 29, 1991
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Ralph Rexford Bellamy
- رالف بلامی
Ralph Bellamy
1.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Self
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
2016
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
6.6
Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994
7.5
James Morse
Pretty Woman
1990
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
7.3
Cyrus Blain
Christine Cromwell
1989
7.9
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
War and Remembrance
1988
5.8
Grandfather Frank
The Good Mother
1988
6.9
Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
Coming to America
1988
7.0
Self
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
Credits
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
as Self
2016
0.0
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.0
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
6.6
Pretty Woman
as James Morse
1990
7.5
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
1990
0.0
Christine Cromwell
as Cyrus Blain
1989
7.3
War and Remembrance
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1988
7.9
The Good Mother
as Grandfather Frank
1988
5.8
Coming to America
as Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
1988
6.9
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self
1988
7.0
Amazon Women on the Moon
as Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
1987
5.9
Disorderlies
as Albert Dennison
1987
5.0
L.A. Law
as August Redding
1986
7.1
Lugosi: The Forgotten King
as Self
1986
0.0
Matlock
1986
7.1
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Monsters!")
1985
7.8
Space
as Paul Stidham
1985
6.5
The Fourth Wise Man
as Abgarus
1985
6.9
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
as Sen. Christi
1984
7.1
Trading Places
as Randolph Duke
1983
7.2
The Winds of War
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1983
7.3
🎬
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Self
1983
0.0
Hotel
1982
6.8
Aloha Paradise
1981
5.0
The Memory of Eva Ryker
as William E. Ryker
1980
6.0
Condominium
as Lee Messenger
1980
3.7
Power
as Ben Frelinghuysen
1980
2.0
The Billion Dollar Threat
as Miles Larson
1979
5.0
The Millionaire
as George Mathews
1978
0.0
The Clone Master
as Ezra Louthin
1978
5.3
Wheels
as Lowell Baxter
1978
6.0
Oh, God!
as Sam Raven
1977
6.5
The Love Boat
as Arnold Hamilton
1977
6.3
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
as McVea
1977
6.0
Hunter
1977
8.0
Hunter
as Harold Baker (uncredited)
1977
8.0
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
as Jerome Patterson
1976
3.0
Once an Eagle
as Ed Caldwell
1976
6.8
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
as Dr. Gunther
1976
5.6
Nightmare in Badham County
as Judge
1976
5.9
Return to Earth
as Col. Edwin E. Aldrin
1976
0.0
McNaughton's Daughter
as Moses Bellman
1976
1.0
Murder on Flight 502
as Dr. Kenyon Walker
1975
5.7
🎬
Medical Story
1975
5.0
Search for the Gods
as Dr. Henderson
1975
4.3
Adventures of the Queen
as J.L. Dundeen
1975
4.8
The Log of the Black Pearl
as Capt. Fitzsimmons
1975
10.0
The Missiles of October
as U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
1974
7.5
The Missiles of October
as Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN
1974
8.8
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Cancel My Reservation
as John Ed
1972
5.3
The Bob Newhart Show
as Alan Dreeben
1972
7.5
Something Evil
as Harry Lincoln
1972
5.4
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Wendall Burke
1971
6.3
Cannon
1971
6.5
Doctors' Wives
as Jake Porter
1971
5.0
The Most Deadly Game
as Ethan Arcane
1970
5.0
The Immortal
as Dr. Matthew Pearce
1969
8.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
🎬
Harold Robbins' The Survivors
1969
0.0
Rosemary's Baby
as Dr. Sapirstein
1968
7.8
Wings of Fire
as Doug Sanborn
1967
0.0
The Invaders
as Morgan Tate
1967
6.8
🎬
CBS Playhouse
1966
7.0
The Professionals
as Grant
1966
7.1
The F.B.I.
as Captain Jennerson
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Mark Dryden
1965
5.5
Run for Your Life
as Cal Phillips
1965
7.2
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
The Eleventh Hour
as Dr. Theodore Bassett
1962
6.0
The Eleventh Hour
as Dr. L. Richard Starke
1962
6.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
🎬
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
as Lambertson
1961
0.0
Dr. Kildare
as Dr. L Richard Starke
1961
5.5
Who Killed Julie Greer?
as Judge Hansen
1961
0.0
The 10 from Texas
as (archive footage)
1961
0.0
Sunrise at Campobello
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1960
6.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dobson
1960
6.2
Checkmate
as Governor Tom Barker
1960
4.1
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Willard Mitchell
1959
6.3
🎬
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
7.3
🎬
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self - Host
1959
7.3
Rawhide
as Judge Quince
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Marshal Hanson Dickson
1959
7.2
🎬
The Christmas Tree
as Theron
1958
0.0
Suspicion
as Detective Thorpe
1957
5.9
The Defender (Studio One)
as Walter Preston
1957
7.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Joel Todd
1956
5.5
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.1
Affair in Sumatra
as Dr. Martin Kelog
1956
0.0
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Congressman Frank R. Reid
1955
6.8
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Dr. Martin Kelog
1955
6.5
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Sheriff Bassett
1955
6.6
Climax!
as Phillip Hardecker, Sr.
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Hap Kennelly
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Damon Runyon
1954
3.3
The United States Steel Hour
1953
6.2
General Electric Theater
as Col. Tom Wheeler
1953
6.3
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Pastor Anderson
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Theron
1951
8.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Joe McQuade
1951
7.3
24 Hours of Progress
as Narrator
1950
0.0
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
🎬
The Maya Through the Ages
as Narrator
1950
7.0
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
Man Against Crime
as Mike Barnett
1949
6.0
Studio One
as Todd McNeill
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Walter Preston
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Tice Collins
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Seeds of Destiny
as Narrator
1946
6.5
Lady on a Train
as Jonathan Waring
1945
6.6
Delightfully Dangerous
as Arthur Hale
1945
4.7
Library of Congress
as Narrator
1945
5.8
Guest in the House
as Douglas Proctor
1944
4.4
Stage Door Canteen
as Ralph Bellamy
1943
5.8
The Great Impersonation
as Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein
1942
5.8
Men of Texas
as Major Lamphere
1942
0.0
Lady in a Jam
as Stanley
1942
5.5
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as Erik Ernst
1942
5.8
The Wolf Man
as Colonel Montford
1941
7.0
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
as Ellery Queen
1941
5.7
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
as Ellery Queen
1941
5.8
Affectionately Yours
as Owen Wright
1941
4.8
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
as Ellery Queen
1941
5.3
Footsteps in the Dark
as Dr. R.L. Davis
1941
6.9
Dive Bomber
as Lance Rogers
1941
6.3
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
as Ellery Queen
1940
5.7
Meet the Wildcat
as Lt. Brad Williams
1940
0.0
Public Deb No. 1
as Bruce Fairchild
1940
4.2
Dance, Girl, Dance
as Steve Adams
1940
6.4
Queen of the Mob
as Agent Scott Langham
1940
4.5
Brother Orchid
as Clarence P. Fletcher
1940
6.5
Flight Angels
as Bill Graves
1940
4.3
His Girl Friday
as Bruce Baldwin
1940
7.4
Coast Guard
as Raymond Dower
1939
5.0
Blind Alley
as Dr. Shelby
1939
5.7
Let Us Live
as Lieutenant Everett
1939
6.8
Breakdowns of 1938
as Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
5.0
Smashing the Spy Ring
as John Baxter
1938
0.0
Trade Winds
as Ben Blodgett
1938
6.3
Girls' School
as Michael Hendragin
1938
6.0
Carefree
as Stephen Arden
1938
6.6
Boy Meets Girl
as C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday
1938
6.5
Fools for Scandal
as Phillip Chester
1938
6.2
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
as Dr. Paul Hallet
1938
0.0
The Awful Truth
as Dan Leeson
1937
7.2
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
as Self (uncredited)
1937
5.0
It Can't Last Forever
as Russ Matthews
1937
5.3
Let's Get Married
as Kirk Duncan
1937
5.0
Counterfeit Lady
as Johnny Pierce
1936
0.0
Wild Brian Kent
as Brian Kent
1936
0.0
The Man Who Lived Twice
as Dr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley
1936
6.7
Straight from the Shoulder
as Curt Hayden
1936
4.5
The Final Hour
as John Vickery
1936
6.0
Roaming Lady
as Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey
1936
5.0
Hands Across the Table
as Allen Macklyn
1935
6.8
Navy Wife
as Dr. Quentin Harden
1935
5.0
The Healer
as Dr. Holden
1935
5.8
Air Hawks
as Barry Eldon
1935
5.6
Eight Bells
as Steve Andrews
1935
6.0
The Wedding Night
as Fredrik Sobieski
1935
6.0
Gigolette
as Terry Gallagher
1935
4.7
Rendezvous at Midnight
as Commissioner Robert Edmonds
1935
0.0
Helldorado
as J.F. Van Avery
1935
0.0
Woman in the Dark
as John Bradley
1934
6.0
Girl in Danger
as Insp. Steve Trent
1934
0.0
One Is Guilty
as Insp. Steve Trent
1934
3.5
The Crime of Helen Stanley
as Insp. Steve Trent
1934
5.0
This Man Is Mine
as Jim Dunlap
1934
5.5
Once to Every Woman
as Dr. Barclay
1934
6.0
Spitfire
as George Fleetwood
1934
5.4
Before Midnight
as Insp. Steve Trent
1933
4.6
Ever in My Heart
as Jeff
1933
5.3
Ace of Aces
as Captain Blake
1933
5.6
Blind Adventure
as Jim Steele
1933
5.5
Headline Shooter
as Hal
1933
5.8
Flying Devils
as 'Speed' Hardy
1933
4.4
The Narrow Corner
as Eric Whittenson
1933
5.5
Picture Snatcher
as J.R. 'Al' McLean
1933
7.0
Destination Unknown
as Stowaway
1933
0.0
Below the Sea
as McCreary
1933
6.0
Parole Girl
as Smith
1933
5.9
Wild Girl
as Jack Marbury
1932
6.0
Air Mail
as Mike Miller
1932
5.5
Almost Married
as Deene Maxwell
1932
0.0
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Dr Ladd
1932
0.0
The Woman in Room 13
as John Bruce
1932
0.0
Young America
as Judge Blake
1932
5.0
Disorderly Conduct
as Captain Tom Manning
1932
0.0
Forbidden
as Al Holland
1932
6.7
Surrender
as Captain Ebbing
1931
5.0
West of Broadway
as Mac
1931
6.3
The Magnificent Lie
as Bill Childers
1931
0.0
The Secret Six
as Johnny Franks
1931
5.8