Ralph Moody
Acting • Born 1886-11-05 – Died 1971-09-16
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ralph Moody (November 5, 1886–September 6, 1971) was an American actor with over 50 movie and over 100 television appearances plus numerous radio appearances. Moody spent more than four decades working in stock theater throughout the United States, including having his own troupe for almost half of that span. In 1939, he began working in radio at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. Later, he became an announcer and actor at WLW radio in Cincinnati. Moody was a regular on radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke, and also performed on the Roy Rogers Show, Wild Bill Hickok and X Minus One. He portrayed Gramps on The Trouble with the Truitts on NBC Rado. At the age of 62, Moody began a string of film and television appearances, including films such as Road to Bali, Toward the Unknown, The Legend of Tom Dooley, and The Story of Ruth. On television, he played Jay Burrage in The Rifleman. He was also seen in episodes of Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, Circus Boy, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Have Gun - Will Travel, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, Wanted Dead or Alive, and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. He was also among a rotation of actors used by Jack Webb in the 1950s version as well as the 1967-70 revival of Dragnet, and in 1970 appeared in the last Dragnet episode produced by Webb. His most frequent television roles were as a kindly old man or Native American. CLR
Filmography
70 credits
No. 5 Checked Out
Movie • 1956
Jarvis
The Outsider
Movie • 1961
Uncle
Road to Bali
Movie • 1952
Bhoma Da
I Died a Thousand Times
Movie • 1955
Pa Goodhue
Affair in Trinidad
Movie • 1952
Coroner (uncredited)
Seminole
Movie • 1953
Kulak
Many Rivers to Cross
Movie • 1955
Sandak
Toward the Unknown
Movie • 1956
Harvey Gilbert
Homicidal
Movie • 1961
First Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
The Steel Jungle
Movie • 1956
Andy Griffith
The Impatient Heart
Movie • 1971
Rothchild
Strange Lady in Town
Movie • 1955
Gen. Lew Wallace (uncredited)
The Last Hunt
Movie • 1956
Indian agent
The Legend of Tom Dooley
Movie • 1959
Doc Henry
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 2010
(voice) (archive footage)
Going Steady
Movie • 1958
Justice of the Peace
The Rounders
Movie • 1965
Horse Doctor (uncredited)
Kid Galahad
Movie • 1962
Peter J. Prohosko (uncredited)
Tumbleweed
Movie • 1953
Aguila
The Living Bible
Movie • 1952
Zacharias
The Chase
Movie • 1966
Townsman (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Movie • 1958
Padre Vincente Esteban
The Gunfighter
Movie • 1950
Old Man (uncredited)
Ace in the Hole
Movie • 1951
Kusac - Miner (uncredited)
The Monster That Challenged the World
Movie • 1957
Watchman at Lock 57
Rock Island Trail
Movie • 1950
Keokuk
Square Dance Jubilee
Movie • 1949
Indian Chief
Column South
Movie • 1953
Joe Copper Face
Pawnee
Movie • 1957
Chief Wise Eagle
Reprisal!
Movie • 1956
Matara
Rage at Dawn
Movie • 1955
Noah Euall
The Big Fisherman
Movie • 1959
Aged Pharisee
Guns Don't Argue
Movie • 1957
Arthur 'Pa' Barker
24 Hour Alert
Movie • 1955
City Councilman Boggs
Pickup on South Street
Movie • 1953
Coffin Boat Captain (uncredited)
Bright Leaf
Movie • 1950
Blacksmith (uncredited) (voice)
Talk About a Stranger
Movie • 1952
Shaw, Hardware Storekeeper
The Far Horizons
Movie • 1955
Chief Le Borgne (uncredited)
Red Mountain
Movie • 1951
George Meredyth, Undertaker
Man-Eater of Kumaon
Movie • 1948
Villager
Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
Movie • 1948
Wilkins (uncredited)
Strangers on a Train
Movie • 1951
Seedy Man at Carnival (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Long Robe
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Swift Eagle
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Judge Tennifree
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Pa Myrtlebank
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Sam
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Jake (segment "The Little Black Bag")
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Carl Cobb
Law of the Plainsman
TV • 1959
Danforth
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Victor Flam
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Harvey
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Gus Archer
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Conductor
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Realtor
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Doc
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Stranger
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Uncle Lee
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Jarvis Miller
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Moreland
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Jenkins
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Local Citizen
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Jarvis
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Tall Pony
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Viejo
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Indian Chief (uncredited)
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Matt Kemper
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Lou Adams
Gunslinger
TV • 1961
Land Agent Cartwright