Ralph Bellamy
Acting • Born 1904-06-17 – Died 1991-11-29
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.
Filmography
205 credits
Pretty Woman
Movie • 1990
James Morse
Trading Places
Movie • 1983
Randolph Duke
Rosemary's Baby
Movie • 1968
Dr. Sapirstein
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Movie • 1942
Erik Ernst
His Girl Friday
Movie • 1940
Bruce Baldwin
Lady on a Train
Movie • 1945
Jonathan Waring
The Professionals
Movie • 1966
Grant
Disorderlies
Movie • 1987
Albert Dennison
Hands Across the Table
Movie • 1935
Allen Macklyn
The Wedding Night
Movie • 1935
Fredrik Sobieski
Dance, Girl, Dance
Movie • 1940
Steve Adams
Brother Orchid
Movie • 1940
Clarence P. Fletcher
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Movie • 1976
Dr. Gunther
The Secret Six
Movie • 1931
Johnny Franks
The Wolf Man
Movie • 1941
Colonel Montford
Blind Alley
Movie • 1939
Dr. Shelby
Guest in the House
Movie • 1944
Douglas Proctor
Carefree
Movie • 1938
Stephen Arden
The Awful Truth
Movie • 1937
Dan Leeson
Footsteps in the Dark
Movie • 1941
Dr. R.L. Davis
Spitfire
Movie • 1934
George Fleetwood
Stage Door Canteen
Movie • 1943
Ralph Bellamy
One Is Guilty
Movie • 1934
Insp. Steve Trent
Dive Bomber
Movie • 1941
Lance Rogers
Picture Snatcher
Movie • 1933
J.R. 'Al' McLean
Let Us Live
Movie • 1939
Lieutenant Everett
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Movie • 1941
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Movie • 1941
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Movie • 1940
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Movie • 1941
Ellery Queen
Forbidden
Movie • 1932
Al Holland
Sunrise at Campobello
Movie • 1960
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Movie • 1932
Dr Ladd
Affectionately Yours
Movie • 1941
Owen Wright
Something Evil
Movie • 1972
Harry Lincoln
Helldorado
Movie • 1935
J.F. Van Avery
The Missiles of October
Movie • 1974
U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
The Man Who Lived Twice
Movie • 1936
Slick Rawley / Dr. James Blake
Men of Texas
Movie • 1942
Major Lamphere
The Good Mother
Movie • 1988
Grandfather Frank
Air Mail
Movie • 1932
Mike Miller
Adventures of the Queen
Movie • 1975
J.L. Dundeen
Flight Angels
Movie • 1940
Bill Graves
Murder on Flight 502
Movie • 1975
Dr. Kenyon Walker
Ace of Aces
Movie • 1933
Captain Blake
Cancel My Reservation
Movie • 1972
John Ed
Boy Meets Girl
Movie • 1938
C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday
Lady in a Jam
Movie • 1942
Stanley
Coast Guard
Movie • 1939
Raymond Dower
Queen of the Mob
Movie • 1940
Agent Scott Langham
The Great Impersonation
Movie • 1942
Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein
Delightfully Dangerous
Movie • 1945
Arthur Hale
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Movie • 1955
Congressman Frank R. Reid
Ever in My Heart
Movie • 1933
Jeff
Destination Unknown
Movie • 1933
Stowaway
The Crime of Helen Stanley
Movie • 1934
Insp. Steve Trent
Wild Girl
Movie • 1932
Jack Marbury
Doctors' Wives
Movie • 1971
Jake Porter
The Healer
Movie • 1935
Dr. Holden
Flying Devils
Movie • 1933
'Speed' Hardy
Headline Shooter
Movie • 1933
Hal
Blind Adventure
Movie • 1933
Jim Steele
Fools for Scandal
Movie • 1938
Phillip Chester
West of Broadway
Movie • 1931
Mac
Trade Winds
Movie • 1938
Ben Blodgett
Wild Brian Kent
Movie • 1936
Brian Kent
Before Midnight
Movie • 1933
Insp. Steve Trent
Air Hawks
Movie • 1935
Barry Eldon
This Man Is Mine
Movie • 1934
Jim Dunlap
Woman in the Dark
Movie • 1934
John Bradley
Young America
Movie • 1932
Judge Blake
The Immortal
Movie • 1969
Dr. Matthew Pearce
The Magnificent Lie
Movie • 1931
Bill Childers
The Narrow Corner
Movie • 1933
Eric Whittenson
Let's Get Married
Movie • 1937
Kirk Duncan
Girls' School
Movie • 1938
Michael Hendragin
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Search for the Gods
Movie • 1975
Dr. Henderson
Disorderly Conduct
Movie • 1932
Captain Tom Manning
Parole Girl
Movie • 1933
Smith
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Movie • 1938
Dr. Paul Hallet
Oh, God!
Movie • 1977
Sam Raven
The Maya Through the Ages
Movie • 1950
Narrator
Public Deb No. 1
Movie • 1940
Bruce Fairchild
Meet the Wildcat
Movie • 1940
Lt. Brad Williams
The Millionaire
Movie • 1978
George Mathews
Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
Movie • 1937
Self (uncredited)
The Log of the Black Pearl
Movie • 1975
Capt. Fitzsimmons
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Movie • 1961
Judge Hansen
Rendezvous at Midnight
Movie • 1935
Commissioner Robert Edmonds
Below the Sea
Movie • 1933
McCreary
Eight Bells
Movie • 1935
Steve Andrews
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Movie • 1988
Self
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Surrender
Movie • 1931
Captain Ebbing
24 Hours of Progress
Movie • 1950
Narrator
The Clone Master
Movie • 1978
Ezra Louthin
Navy Wife
Movie • 1935
Dr. Quentin Harden
Counterfeit Lady
Movie • 1936
Johnny Pierce
Once to Every Woman
Movie • 1934
Dr. Barclay
The Woman in Room 13
Movie • 1932
John Bruce
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Movie • 1977
McVea
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Movie • 1961
Lambertson
It Can't Last Forever
Movie • 1937
Russ Matthews
Girl in Danger
Movie • 1934
Insp. Steve Trent
Nightmare in Badham County
Movie • 1976
Judge
Coming to America
Movie • 1988
Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Movie • 1984
Sen. Christi
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Movie • 1980
William E. Ryker
Smashing the Spy Ring
Movie • 1938
John Baxter
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Billion Dollar Threat
Movie • 1979
Miles Larson
Gigolette
Movie • 1935
Terry Gallagher
Seeds of Destiny
Movie • 1946
Narrator
The 10 from Texas
Movie • 1961
(archive footage)
Roaming Lady
Movie • 1936
Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey
The Christmas Tree
Movie • 1958
Theron
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Movie • 1994
Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Return to Earth
Movie • 1976
Col. Edwin E. Aldrin
The Final Hour
Movie • 1936
John Vickery
The Fourth Wise Man
Movie • 1985
Abgarus
Wings of Fire
Movie • 1967
Doug Sanborn
Straight from the Shoulder
Movie • 1936
Curt Hayden
Library of Congress
Movie • 1945
Narrator
Almost Married
Movie • 1932
Deene Maxwell
The Defender (Studio One)
Movie • 1957
Walter Preston
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Movie • 1983
Self
Lugosi: The Forgotten King
Movie • 1986
Self
Amazon Women on the Moon
Movie • 1987
Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
Affair in Sumatra
Movie • 1956
Dr. Martin Kelog
Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
Movie • 2016
Self
The Big Slide
Movie • 1956
Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
Heritage of Anger
Movie • 1956
Eddie Hanneman
Dangerous Intrigue
Movie • 1936
Tony Halliday
The Wolfman
Movie • 1966
Col. Montford
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
August Redding
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Dr. Marvin Haynes
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Captain Jennerson
Matlock
TV • 1986
Sen. Lambert Crawford
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "Monsters!")
Hotel
TV • 1982
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Sheriff Bassett
Studio One
TV • 1948
Todd McNeill
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Col. Tom Wheeler
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Pastor Anderson
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Judge Quince
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Cal Phillips
The Most Deadly Game
TV • 1970
Ethan Arcane
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Joe McQuade
Climax!
TV • 1954
Phillip Hardecker, Sr.
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Tice Collins
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Harold Robbins' The Survivors
TV • 1969
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Joel Todd
Once an Eagle
TV • 1976
Ed Caldwell
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
Medical Story
TV • 1975
Aloha Paradise
TV • 1981
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. L Richard Starke
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Willard Mitchell
Christine Cromwell
TV • 1989
Cyrus Blain
Hunter
TV • 1977
War and Remembrance
TV • 1988
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Dobson
The Winds of War
TV • 1983
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Wheels
TV • 1978
Lowell Baxter
Man Against Crime
TV • 1949
Mike Barnett
The Eleventh Hour
TV • 1962
Dr. L. Richard Starke
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Mark Dryden
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Marshal Hanson Dickson
Condominium
TV • 1980
Lee Messenger
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Space
TV • 1985
Paul Stidham
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
TV • 1976
Jerome Patterson
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Governor Tom Barker
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Theron
Studio One
TV • 1948
Walter Preston
Climax!
TV • 1954
Hap Kennelly
Climax!
TV • 1954
Damon Runyon
The Bob Newhart Show
TV • 1972
Alan Dreeben
Hunter
TV • 1977
Harold Baker (uncredited)
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Morgan Tate
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Arnold Hamilton
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
McNaughton's Daughter
TV • 1976
Moses Bellman
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Dr. Martin Kelog
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Panelist
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Detective Thorpe
The Missiles of October
TV • 1974
Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Wendall Burke
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV • 1959
Self - Host
Testimony of Two Men
TV • 1977
Dr. Jim Spaulding
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
TV • 1957
Col. Andy Morgan
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
TV • 1957
Eddy Gilmore
Power
TV • 1980
Ben Frelinghuysen