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Ralph Bellamy
Actor
Died November 29, 1991 (87 years)
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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.
Filmography
| 1994 | Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics · as Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1990 | Pretty Woman · as James Morse |
| 1990 | Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge · as actor |
| 1988 | Coming to America · as Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited) |
| 1988 | The Good Mother · as Grandfather Frank |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance (TV Series) · as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1987 | Amazon Women on the Moon · as Mr. Gower |
| 1987 | Disorderlies · as Albert Dennison |
| 1986 | L.A. Law (TV Series) · as August Redding |
| 1986 | Matlock (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1985 | The Fourth Wise Man · as Abgarus |
| 1985 | Space (TV Series) · as Paul Stidham |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as Dr. Sapirstein (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1984 | Love Leads the Way: A True Story · as Sen. Christi |
| 1983 | The Winds of War (TV Series) · as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1983 | Trading Places · as Randolph Duke |
| 1979 | The Billion Dollar Threat · as Unknown |
| 1977 | Oh, God! · as Sam Raven |
| 1977 | Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging · as McVea |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Adam Larrabe |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Arnold Hamilton |
| 1976 | The Boy in the Plastic Bubble · as Dr. Gunther |
| 1976 | Nightmare in Badham County · as Judge |
| 1976 | Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers (TV Series) · as Jerome Patterson |
| 1975 | Murder on Flight 502 · as Dr. Kenyon Walker |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Something Evil · as Harry Lincoln |
| 1972 | Cancel My Reservation · as John Ed |
| 1972 | The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series) · as Alan Dreeben |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives · as Jake Porter |
| 1971 | Cannon (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Rosemary's Baby · as Dr. Sapirstein |
| 1967 | The Invaders (TV Series) · as Morgan Tate |
| 1966 | The Professionals · as Grant |
| 1966 | The Wolfman · as Col. Montford |
| 1965 | Seaway (TV Series) · as Captain Folsom |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Mark Dryden |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Jeremiah |
| 1960 | Sunrise at Campobello · as Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series) · as Dobson |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Governor Tom Barker |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Marshal Hanson Dickson |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Detective Thorpe |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Joel Todd |
| 1955 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell · as Congressman Frank R. Reid |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Sheriff Bassett |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Phillip Hardecker, Sr. |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Col. Tom Wheeler |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Daniel Quint |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Theron |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1949 | Man Against Crime (TV Series) · as Mike Barnett |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Walter Preston |
| 1946 | Seeds of Destiny · as Narrator |
| 1945 | Delightfully Dangerous · as Arthur Hale |
| 1944 | Guest in the House · as Douglas Proctor |
| 1943 | Stage Door Canteen · as Ralph Bellamy |
| 1942 | The Ghost of Frankenstein · as Erich Ernst |
| 1941 | The Wolf Man · as Colonel Montford |
| 1941 | Dive Bomber · as Lance Rogers |
| 1940 | His Girl Friday · as Bruce Baldwin |
| 1940 | Brother Orchid · as Clarence P. Fletcher |
| 1940 | Dance, Girl, Dance · as Steve Adams |
| 1940 | Flight Angels · as Bill Graves |
| 1939 | Let Us Live · as Lieutenant Everett |
| 1938 | Carefree · as Stephen Arden |
| 1938 | Trade Winds · as Ben Blodgett |
| 1937 | The Awful Truth · as Dan Leeson |
| 1936 | Straight from the Shoulder · as Curt Hayden |
| 1935 | The Wedding Night · as Fredrik Sobieski |
| 1935 | The Healer · as Dr. Holden |
| 1934 | Woman in the Dark · as John Bradley |
| 1933 | Picture Snatcher · as J.R. 'Al' McLean |
| 1933 | Ace of Aces · as Captain Blake |
| 1932 | Forbidden · as Holland |
| 1932 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · as Dr Ladd |
| 1931 | The Secret 6 · as Johnny Franks |
| 1931 | West of Broadway · as Mac - The Ranch Foreman |