Ralph Bellamy

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1904-06-17

Died: 1991-11-29

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1931	The Secret Six	Johnny Franks	58
2	1931	The Magnificent Lie	Bill Childers	0
3	1931	West of Broadway	Mac - The Ranch Foreman	60
4	1931	Surrender	Captain Ebbing	50
5	1932	Forbidden	Al Holland	67
6	1932	Disorderly Conduct	Captain Tom Manning	0
7	1932	Young America	Judge Blake	50
8	1932	The Woman in Room 13	John Bruce	0
9	1932	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Dr Ladd	0
10	1932	Almost Married	Deene Maxwell	0
11	1932	Air Mail	Mike Miller	55
12	1932	Wild Girl	Jack Marbury	60
13	1933	Parole Girl	Joseph B. 'Joe' Smith	58
14	1933	Below the Sea	McCreary	60
15	1933	Destination Unknown	Stowaway	0
16	1933	Picture Snatcher	J.R. 'Al' McLean	69
17	1933	The Narrow Corner	Eric Whittenson	55
18	1933	Flying Devils	'Speed' Hardy	44
19	1933	Headline Shooter	Hal	58
20	1933	Blind Adventure	Jim Steele	55
21	1933	Ace of Aces	Captain Blake	56
22	1933	Ever in My Heart	Jeff	53
23	1933	Before Midnight	Insp. Steve Trent	40
24	1934	Spitfire	George Fleetwood	54
25	1934	Once to Every Woman	Dr. James Barclay	58
26	1934	This Man Is Mine	Jim Dunlap	55
27	1934	The Crime of Helen Stanley	Insp. Steve Trent	50
28	1934	One Is Guilty	Insp. Steve Trent	35
29	1934	Girl in Danger	Insp. Steve Trent	0
30	1934	Woman in the Dark	John Bradley	61
31	1935	Helldorado	J.F. Van Avery	0
32	1935	Rendezvous at Midnight	Commissioner Robert Edmonds	0
33	1935	Gigolette	Terry Gallagher	47
34	1935	The Wedding Night	Fredrik Sobieski	60
35	1935	Eight Bells	Steve Andrews	60
36	1935	Air Hawks	Barry Eldon	56
37	1935	The Healer	Dr. Holden	57
38	1935	Navy Wife	Dr. Quentin Harden	50
39	1935	Hands Across the Table	Allen Macklyn	68
40	1936	Roaming Lady	Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey	50
41	1936	The Final Hour	John Vickery	60
42	1936	Straight from the Shoulder	Curt Hayden	45
43	1936	The Man Who Lived Twice	Dr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley	67
44	1936	Wild Brian Kent	Brian Kent	0
45	1936	Counterfeit Lady	Johnny Pierce	0
46	1937	Let's Get Married	Kirk Duncan	50
47	1937	It Can't Last Forever	Russ Matthews	53
48	1937	Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12	Self (uncredited)	50
49	1937	The Awful Truth	Dan Leeson	72
50	1938	The Crime of Doctor Hallet	Dr. Paul Hallet	0
51	1938	Fools for Scandal	Phillip Chester	62
52	1938	Boy Meets Girl	C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday	62
53	1938	Carefree	Stephen Arden	66
54	1938	Girls' School	Michael Hendragin	60
55	1938	Trade Winds	Ben Blodgett	63
56	1938	Smashing the Spy Ring	John Baxter	0
57	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
58	1939	Let Us Live	Lieutenant Everett	68
59	1939	Blind Alley	Dr. Shelby	57
60	1939	Coast Guard	Lt. Raymond 'Ray' Dower	50
61	1940	His Girl Friday	Bruce Baldwin	74
62	1940	Flight Angels	Bill Graves	43
63	1940	Brother Orchid	Clarence P. Fletcher	64
64	1940	Queen of the Mob	Agent Scott Langham	45
65	1940	Dance, Girl, Dance	Steve Adams	64
66	1940	Public Deb No. 1	Bruce Fairchild	42
67	1940	Meet the Wildcat	Lt. Brad Williams	0
68	1940	Ellery Queen, Master Detective	Ellery Queen	57
69	1941	Dive Bomber	Lance Rogers	63
70	1941	Footsteps in the Dark	Dr. R.L. Davis	69
71	1941	Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery	Ellery Queen	53
72	1941	Affectionately Yours	Owen Wright	48
73	1941	Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime	Ellery Queen	58
74	1941	Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring	Ellery Queen	57
75	1941	The Wolf Man	Colonel Montford	70
76	1942	The Ghost of Frankenstein	Erik Ernst	58
77	1942	Lady in a Jam	Stanley	55
78	1942	Men of Texas	Major Lamphere	0
79	1942	The Great Impersonation	Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein	58
80	1943	Stage Door Canteen	Ralph Bellamy	61
81	1944	Guest in the House	Douglas Proctor	45
82	1945	Library of Congress	Narrator	58
83	1945	Delightfully Dangerous	Arthur Hale	53
84	1945	Lady on a Train	Jonathan Waring	65
85	1946	Seeds of Destiny	Narrator	63
86	1950	The Maya Through the Ages	Narrator	70
87	1950	24 Hours of Progress	Narrator	0
88	1955	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	Congressman Frank R. Reid	68
89	1956	Affair in Sumatra	Dr. Martin Kelog	0
90	1957	The Defender (Studio One)	Walter Preston	72
91	1958	The Christmas Tree	Theron	0
92	1960	Sunrise at Campobello	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	60
93	1961	The 10 from Texas	(archive footage)	0
94	1961	Who Killed Julie Greer?	Judge Hansen	0
95	1961	Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed	Lambertson	0
96	1966	The Professionals	Grant	71
97	1967	Wings of Fire	Doug Sanborn	0
98	1968	Rosemary's Baby	Dr. Sapirstein	78
99	1969	The Immortal	Dr. Matthew Pearce	80
100	1971	Doctors' Wives	Jake Porter	50
101	1972	Something Evil	Harry Lincoln	54
102	1972	Cancel My Reservation	John Ed	53
103	1974	The Missiles of October	U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson	75
104	1975	The Log of the Black Pearl	Capt. Fitzsimmons	100
105	1975	Adventures of the Queen	J.L. Dundeen	48
106	1975	Search for the Gods	Dr. Henderson	43
107	1975	Murder on Flight 502	Dr. Kenyon Walker	60
108	1976	Return to Earth	Col. Edwin E. Aldrin	0
109	1976	Nightmare in Badham County	Judge	60
110	1976	The Boy in the Plastic Bubble	Dr. Gunther	57
111	1977	Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging	McVea	60
112	1977	Oh, God!	Sam Raven	65
113	1978	The Clone Master	Ezra Louthin	53
114	1978	The Millionaire	George Mathews	0
115	1979	The Billion Dollar Threat	Miles Larson	50
116	1980	Power	Ben Frelinghuysen	20
117	1980	The Memory of Eva Ryker	William E. Ryker	60
118	1983	Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler	Self	0
119	1983	Trading Places	Randolph Duke	72
120	1984	Love Leads the Way: A True Story	Sen. Christi	71
121	1985	The Fourth Wise Man	Abgarus	69
122	1986	Lugosi: The Forgotten King	Self	0
123	1987	Disorderlies	Albert Dennison	49
124	1987	Amazon Women on the Moon	Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")	60
125	1988	Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man	Self	70
126	1988	Coming to America	Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)	69
127	1988	The Good Mother	Grandfather Frank	58
128	1990	Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge	Self (archive footage)	0
129	1990	Pretty Woman	James Morse	75
130	1994	The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics	Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
131	2004	Cary Grant: A Class Apart	Self (archive footage)	69

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Tice Collins	60
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		60
4	1948	Studio One	Todd McNeill	47
5	1948	Studio One	Walter Preston	47
6	1949	Man Against Crime	Mike Barnett	60
7	1950	What's My Line?	Self	68
8	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Panelist	68
9	1950	Your Show of Shows		55
10	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	70
11	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Joe McQuade	70
12	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Pastor Anderson	87
13	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Theron	87
14	1953	General Electric Theater	Col. Tom Wheeler	60
15	1953	The United States Steel Hour		58
16	1954	Climax!	Phillip Hardecker, Sr.	30
17	1954	Climax!	Hap Kennelly	30
18	1954	Climax!	Damon Runyon	30
19	1955	Gunsmoke	Sheriff Bassett	66
20	1955	Playwrights '56		60
21	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Dr. Martin Kelog	65
22	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	46
23	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	53
24	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Joel Todd	55
25	1957	Suspicion	Detective Thorpe	59
26	1959	Rawhide	Judge Quince	72
27	1959	Rawhide	Marshal Hanson Dickson	72
28	1959	The Bell Telephone Hour	Self	70
29	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Willard Mitchell	63
30	1960	Checkmate	Governor Tom Barker	41
31	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Dobson	62
32	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. L Richard Starke	53
33	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
34	1962	The Eleventh Hour	Dr. Theodore Bassett	60
35	1962	The Eleventh Hour	Dr. L. Richard Starke	60
36	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		55
37	1965	Run for Your Life	Cal Phillips	72
38	1965	The F.B.I.	Captain Jennerson	55
39	1965	The F.B.I.	Mark Dryden	55
40	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
41	1967	The Invaders	Morgan Tate	68
42	1969	Harold Robbins' The Survivors		0
43	1969	Medical Center		61
44	1970	The Most Deadly Game	Ethan Arcane	50
45	1971	Cannon		64
46	1971	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law		63
47	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	Alan Dreeben	74
48	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
49	1974	The Missiles of October	Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador to UN	88
50	1975	Medical Story		50
51	1976	McNaughton's Daughter	Moses Bellman	10
52	1976	Once an Eagle	Ed Caldwell	68
53	1976	Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers	Jerome Patterson	30
54	1977	Hunter		80
55	1977	Hunter	Harold Baker (uncredited)	80
56	1977	The Love Boat	Arnold Hamilton	63
57	1978	Wheels	Lowell Baxter	60
58	1980	Condominium	Lee Messenger	37
59	1981	Aloha Paradise		50
60	1982	Hotel		68
61	1983	The Winds of War	President Franklin Delano Roosevelt	73
62	1985	Space	Paul Stidham	65
63	1985	The Twilight Zone	(segment "Monsters!")	77
64	1986	Matlock		71
65	1986	L.A. Law	August Redding	71
66	1988	War and Remembrance	President Franklin Delano Roosevelt	79
67	1989	Christine Cromwell		73