Ralph Bellamy

Acting · 2.4 popularity

Age

122

Movies

136

Born: June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991
From: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

Works

136 films

Pretty Woman

19907.4

Trading Places

19837.2

Coming to America

19886.9

Rosemary's Baby

19687.8

The Professionals

19667.1

His Girl Friday

19407.4

The Wolf Man

19417.0

Amazon Women on the Moon

19875.9

Disorderlies

19874.9

The Awful Truth

19377.2

Oh, God!

19776.4

The Ghost of Frankenstein

19425.8

Dance, Girl, Dance

19406.4

The Good Mother

19885.7

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

19765.6

Nightmare in Badham County

19765.9

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

19556.8

Dive Bomber

19416.3

Carefree

19386.7

Ace of Aces

19335.9

The Fourth Wise Man

19857.0

Picture Snatcher

19336.8

One Is Guilty

19344.3

Girls' School

19386.5

Search for the Gods

19755.5

Something Evil

19725.4

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

19907.0

Forbidden

19326.5

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

19946.8

The Defender (Studio One)

19576.1

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

19847.1

Ever in My Heart

19335.6

Lady on a Train

19456.7

Brother Orchid

19406.6

Gigolette

19355.4

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

19416.5

Hands Across the Table

19357.0

Stage Door Canteen

19436.3

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

19777.5

The Billion Dollar Threat

19795.5

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed

19619.0

The Memory of Eva Ryker

19808.0

The Secret Six

19315.6

Affectionately Yours

19414.5

Wild Girl

19326.2

Dangerous Intrigue

19367.0

Let Us Live

19396.8

Doctors' Wives

19715.0

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

19887.0

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1983

Parole Girl

19336.2

The Missiles of October

19747.5

The Man Who Lived Twice

19367.5

Girl in Danger

19348.0

Coast Guard

19396.0

Lugosi: The Forgotten King

19867.5

Cancel My Reservation

19726.5

Footsteps in the Dark

19417.0

The Maya Through the Ages

19507.0

Spitfire

19345.3

The Crime of Helen Stanley

19345.6

Flying Devils

19334.6

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring

19415.6

Queen of the Mob

19406.2

Blind Alley

19396.0

It Can't Last Forever

19376.5

Air Mail

19325.5

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

19415.8

Trade Winds

19386.4

Guest in the House

19444.9

Before Midnight

19334.6

The Immortal

19698.0

Lady in a Jam

19425.6

Sunrise at Campobello

19606.0

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

20047.1

Woman in the Dark

19346.1

The Wedding Night

19355.9

Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror

20167.0

Wild Brian Kent

19369.0

Public Deb No. 1

19404.9

Murder on Flight 502

19755.9

The Wolfman

19667.7

This Man Is Mine

19345.9

Straight from the Shoulder

19365.8

Below the Sea

19336.7

Return to Earth

197610.0

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

19405.8

Boy Meets Girl

19386.9

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12

19375.0

Seeds of Destiny

19466.8

The Millionaire

19788.0

Blind Adventure

19336.3

Men of Texas

19429.0

Adventures of the Queen

19755.5

Fools for Scandal

19386.3

Almost Married

193210.0

Smashing the Spy Ring

19386.7

Meet the Wildcat

19409.0

The Clone Master

19786.0

Young America

19325.5

Eight Bells

19356.5

The Healer

19356.2

The Log of the Black Pearl

197510.0

Who Killed Julie Greer?

1961

Library of Congress

19456.4

The Great Impersonation

19426.4

The Woman in Room 13

19328.0

Flight Angels

19404.8

Surrender

19315.5

Roaming Lady

19367.0

Wings of Fire

19677.0

Counterfeit Lady

193610.0

Let's Get Married

19376.5

Delightfully Dangerous

19455.3

The Christmas Tree

19582.0

The Narrow Corner

19335.8

The Crime of Doctor Hallet

193810.0

Second Hand Wife

19335.5

Air Hawks

19356.2

Navy Wife

19356.0

Rendezvous at Midnight

193510.0

The Big Slide

1956

West of Broadway

19316.8

Disorderly Conduct

19328.0

The 10 from Texas

19619.0

Once to Every Woman

19346.1

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

193210.0

Helldorado

19359.0

Destination Unknown

19337.0

Headline Shooter

19336.3

Affair in Sumatra

1956

Heritage of Anger

1956

The Final Hour

19367.5

The Magnificent Lie

19317.0

24 Hours of Progress

1950