Ralph Bellamy
Acting
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.
Born: June 17, 1904
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
as James Morse
as Self (archive footage)
as Cyrus Blain
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as Grandfather Frank
as Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
as Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
as Albert Dennison
as August Redding
as Self
as (segment "Monsters!")
as Paul Stidham
as Abgarus
as Sen. Christi
as Randolph Duke
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as William E. Ryker
as Lee Messenger
as Ben Frelinghuysen
as Miles Larson
as George Mathews
as Ezra Louthin
as Lowell Baxter
as Sam Raven
as Arnold Hamilton
as Dr. Jim Spaulding
as Harold Baker (uncredited)
as Jerome Patterson
as Ed Caldwell
as Dr. Gunther
as Judge
as Col. Edwin E. Aldrin
as Moses Bellman
as Dr. Kenyon Walker
as Dr. Henderson
as J.L. Dundeen
as Capt. Fitzsimmons
as U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
as Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN
as Dr. Marvin Haynes
as John Ed
as Alan Dreeben
as Harry Lincoln
as Wendall Burke
as Jake Porter
as Ethan Arcane
as Dr. Matthew Pearce
as Dr. Sapirstein
as Doug Sanborn
as Morgan Tate
as Grant
as Captain Jennerson
as Mark Dryden
as Cal Phillips
as Dr. L. Richard Starke
as Dr. L Richard Starke
as Judge Hansen
as (archive footage)
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as Dobson
as Governor Tom Barker
as Willard Mitchell
as Self
as Self - Host
as Judge Quince
as Marshal Hanson Dickson
as Detective Thorpe
as Walter Preston
as Eddie Hanneman
as Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
as Self
as Joel Todd
as Self - Presenter
as Dr. Martin Kelog
as Congressman Frank R. Reid
as Dr. Martin Kelog
as Sheriff Bassett
as Phillip Hardecker, Sr.
as Hap Kennelly
as Damon Runyon
as Col. Tom Wheeler
as Pastor Anderson
as Theron
as Joe McQuade
as Narrator
as Self
as Narrator
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Mike Barnett
as Todd McNeill
as Walter Preston
as Tice Collins
as Self
as Narrator
as Jonathan Waring
as Arthur Hale
as Narrator
as Douglas Proctor
as Ralph Bellamy
as Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein
as Major Lamphere
as Stanley
as Erik Ernst
as Colonel Montford
as Ellery Queen
as Lance Rogers
as Ellery Queen
as Owen Wright
as Ellery Queen
as Dr. R.L. Davis
as Ellery Queen
as Lt. Brad Williams
as Bruce Fairchild
as Steve Adams
as Agent Scott Langham
as Clarence P. Fletcher
as Bill Graves
as Bruce Baldwin
as Raymond Dower
as Dr. Shelby
as Lieutenant Everett
as Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)
as John Baxter
as Ben Blodgett
as Michael Hendragin
as Stephen Arden
as C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday
as Phillip Chester
as Dr. Paul Hallet
as Dan Leeson
as Self (uncredited)
as Russ Matthews
as Kirk Duncan
as Johnny Pierce
as Brian Kent
as Slick Rawley / Dr. James Blake
as Curt Hayden
as John Vickery
as Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey
as Allen Macklyn
as Dr. Quentin Harden
as Dr. Holden
as Barry Eldon
as Steve Andrews
as Fredrik Sobieski
as Terry Gallagher
as Commissioner Robert Edmonds
as J.F. Van Avery
as John Bradley
as Insp. Steve Trent
as Insp. Steve Trent
as Insp. Steve Trent
as Jim Dunlap
as Dr. Barclay
as George Fleetwood
as Insp. Steve Trent
as Jeff
as Captain Blake
as Jim Steele
as Hal
as 'Speed' Hardy
as Eric Whittenson
as J.R. 'Al' McLean
as Stowaway
as McCreary
as Smith
as Jack Marbury
as Mike Miller
as Deene Maxwell
as Dr Ladd
as John Bruce
as Judge Blake
as Captain Tom Manning
as Al Holland
as Captain Ebbing
as Mac
as Bill Childers
as Johnny Franks