Ralph Bellamy
Chicago, Illinois, USA
1904-06-17
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.
Movies:
Pretty Woman
Trading Places
Rosemary's Baby
The Ghost of Frankenstein
His Girl Friday
Lady on a Train
The Professionals
Disorderlies
Hands Across the Table
The Wedding Night
Dance, Girl, Dance
Brother Orchid
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
The Secret Six
The Wolf Man
Blind Alley
Guest in the House
Carefree
The Awful Truth
Footsteps in the Dark
Spitfire
Stage Door Canteen
One Is Guilty
Dive Bomber
Picture Snatcher
Let Us Live
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Forbidden
Sunrise at Campobello
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Affectionately Yours
Something Evil
Helldorado
The Missiles of October
The Man Who Lived Twice
Men of Texas
The Good Mother
Air Mail
Adventures of the Queen
Flight Angels
Murder on Flight 502
Ace of Aces
Cancel My Reservation
Boy Meets Girl
Lady in a Jam
Coast Guard
Queen of the Mob
The Great Impersonation
Delightfully Dangerous
Ever in My Heart
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Destination Unknown
The Crime of Helen Stanley
Wild Girl
Doctors' Wives
The Healer
Flying Devils
Headline Shooter
Blind Adventure
Fools for Scandal
West of Broadway
Trade Winds
Wild Brian Kent
Before Midnight
Air Hawks
This Man Is Mine
Woman in the Dark
Young America
The Immortal
The Magnificent Lie
The Narrow Corner
Let's Get Married
Girls' School
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Search for the Gods
Disorderly Conduct
Parole Girl
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Oh, God!
The Maya Through the Ages
Public Deb No. 1
Meet the Wildcat
The Millionaire
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
The Log of the Black Pearl
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Rendezvous at Midnight
Below the Sea
Eight Bells
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Surrender
24 Hours of Progress
The Clone Master
Power
Navy Wife
Counterfeit Lady
Once to Every Woman
The Woman in Room 13
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
It Can't Last Forever
Girl in Danger
Nightmare in Badham County
Coming to America
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Smashing the Spy Ring
Breakdowns of 1938
The Billion Dollar Threat
Gigolette
Seeds of Destiny
The 10 from Texas
Roaming Lady
The Christmas Tree
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Return to Earth
The Final Hour
The Fourth Wise Man
Wings of Fire
Straight from the Shoulder
Library of Congress
Almost Married
The Defender (Studio One)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Lugosi: The Forgotten King
Amazon Women on the Moon
Affair in Sumatra
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
The Big Slide
Heritage of Anger
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