Ralph Bellamy
Biography
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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.
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Acting
1990
asJames Morse
1983
asRandolph Duke
1968
asDr. Sapirstein
1942
asErik Ernst
1940
asBruce Baldwin
1945
asJonathan Waring
1966
asGrant
1987
asAlbert Dennison
1935
asAllen Macklyn
1935
asFredrik Sobieski
1940
asSteve Adams
1940
asClarence P. Fletcher
1976
asDr. Gunther
1931
asJohnny Franks
1941
asColonel Montford
1939
asDr. Shelby
1944
asDouglas Proctor
1938
asStephen Arden
1937
asDan Leeson
1941
asDr. R.L. Davis
1934
asGeorge Fleetwood
1943
asRalph Bellamy
1934
asInsp. Steve Trent
1941
asLance Rogers
1933
asJ.R. 'Al' McLean
1939
asLieutenant Everett
1941
asEllery Queen
1941
asEllery Queen
1940
asEllery Queen
1941
asEllery Queen
1932
asAl Holland
1960
asFranklin Delano Roosevelt
1932
asDr Ladd
1941
asOwen Wright
1972
asHarry Lincoln
1935
asJ.F. Van Avery
1974
asU.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
1936
asDr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley
1942
asMajor Lamphere
1988
asGrandfather Frank
1932
asMike Miller
1975
asJ.L. Dundeen
1940
asBill Graves
1975
asDr. Kenyon Walker
1933
asCaptain Blake
1972
asJohn Ed
1938
asC. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday
1942
asStanley
1939
asRaymond Dower
1940
asAgent Scott Langham
1942
asSir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein
1945
asArthur Hale
1955
asCongressman Frank R. Reid
1933
asJeff
1933
asStowaway
1934
asInsp. Steve Trent
1932
asJack Marbury
1971
asJake Porter
1935
asDr. Holden
1933
as'Speed' Hardy
1933
asHal
1933
asJim Steele
1938
asPhillip Chester
1931
asMac
1938
asBen Blodgett
1936
asBrian Kent
1933
asInsp. Steve Trent
1935
asBarry Eldon
1934
asJim Dunlap
1934
asJohn Bradley
1932
asJudge Blake
1969
asDr. Matthew Pearce
1931
asBill Childers
1933
asEric Whittenson
1937
asKirk Duncan
1938
asMichael Hendragin
2004
asSelf (archive footage)
1975
asDr. Henderson
1932
asCaptain Tom Manning
1933
asJoseph B. 'Joe' Smith
1938
asDr. Paul Hallet
1977
asSam Raven
1950
asNarrator
1940
asBruce Fairchild
1940
asLt. Brad Williams
1978
asGeorge Mathews
1937
asSelf (uncredited)
1975
asCapt. Fitzsimmons
1961
asJudge Hansen
1935
asCommissioner Robert Edmonds
1933
asMcCreary
1935
asSteve Andrews
1988
asSelf
1990
asSelf (archive footage)
1931
asCaptain Ebbing
1950
asNarrator
1978
asEzra Louthin
1980
asBen Frelinghuysen
1935
asDr. Quentin Harden
1936
asJohnny Pierce
1934
asDr. Barclay
1932
asJohn Bruce
1977
asMcVea
1961
asLambertson
1937
asRuss Matthews
1934
asInsp. Steve Trent
1976
asJudge
1988
asRandolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
1984
asSen. Christi
1980
asWilliam E. Ryker
1938
asJohn Baxter
1938
asPhilip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
asMiles Larson
1935
asTerry Gallagher
1946
asNarrator
1961
as(archive footage)
1936
asDaniel S. 'Dan' Bailey
1958
asTheron
1994
asBruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
asCol. Edwin E. Aldrin
1936
asJohn Vickery
1985
asAbgarus
1967
asDoug Sanborn
1936
asCurt Hayden
1945
asNarrator
1932
asDeene Maxwell
1957
asWalter Preston
1983
asSelf
1986
asSelf
1987
asMr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
1956
asDr. Martin Kelog
2016
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asAugust Redding
asSelf
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asTodd McNeill
asSelf
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asPastor Anderson
asDr. Theodore Bassett
asJudge Quince
asCal Phillips
asEthan Arcane
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asPhillip Hardecker, Sr.
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asSelf
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asEd Caldwell
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asWillard Mitchell
asCyrus Blain
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asPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt
asDobson
asPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt
asLowell Baxter
asMike Barnett
asDr. L. Richard Starke
asMark Dryden
asMarshal Hanson Dickson
asLee Messenger
asSelf
asPaul Stidham
asJerome Patterson
asGovernor Tom Barker
asTheron
asWalter Preston
asHap Kennelly
asDamon Runyon
asAlan Dreeben
asHarold Baker (uncredited)
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asMorgan Tate
asArnold Hamilton
asSelf
asMoses Bellman
asSelf
asDr. Martin Kelog
asSelf - Panelist
asDetective Thorpe
asAdlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN
asSelf - Presenter
asWendall Burke
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