Ralph Bellamy profile
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Ralph Bellamy

17th June 1904 Chicago, Illinois, USA Acting

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.

136 Movies 60 TV Shows 196 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Big Slide poster
The Big Slide 8th November 1956 as Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
Carefree poster
Carefree 2nd September 1938 as Stephen Arden
Navy Wife poster
Navy Wife 17th September 1935 as Dr. Quentin Harden
Spitfire poster
Spitfire 8th March 1934 as George Fleetwood
L.A. Law poster
L.A. Law 15th September 1986 as August Redding
Matlock poster
Matlock 3rd March 1986 as Sen. Lambert Crawford
Space poster
Space 14th April 1985 as Paul Stidham
Power poster
Power 14th January 1980 as Ben Frelinghuysen
Wheels poster
Wheels 7th May 1978 as Lowell Baxter
Hunter poster
Hunter 18th February 1977 as Harold Baker (uncredited)
Checkmate poster
Checkmate 17th September 1960 as Governor Tom Barker
Rawhide poster
Rawhide 9th January 1959 as Marshal Hanson Dickson
Suspicion poster
Suspicion 30th September 1957 as Detective Thorpe
Gunsmoke poster
Gunsmoke 10th September 1955 as Sheriff Bassett
Climax! poster
Climax! 7th October 1954 as Damon Runyon