
Ralph Bellamy
Acting
1904-06-17 - Present
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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.
Credits

Pretty WomanasJames Morse

Coming to AmericaasRandolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)

Trading PlacesasRandolph Duke

Rosemary's BabyasDr. Sapirstein

Flight AngelsasBill Graves

His Girl FridayasBruce Baldwin

The Boy in the Plastic BubbleasDr. Gunther

Stage Door CanteenasRalph Bellamy

The Wolf ManasColonel Montford

The ProfessionalsasGrant

Oh, God!asSam Raven

The Awful TruthasDan Leeson

Guest in the HouseasDouglas Proctor

Delightfully DangerousasArthur Hale

Amazon Women on the MoonasMr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")

Let Us LiveasLieutenant Everett

The Secret SixasJohnny Franks

Dive BomberasLance Rogers

Brother OrchidasClarence P. Fletcher

Lugosi: The Forgotten KingasSelf

The Good MotherasGrandfather Frank

The Ghost of FrankensteinasErik Ernst

The Court-Martial of Billy MitchellasCongressman Frank R. Reid

Hands Across the TableasAllen Macklyn

Dance, Girl, DanceasSteve Adams

The Wedding NightasFredrik Sobieski

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost ClassicsasBruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nightmare in Badham CountyasJudge

ForbiddenasAl Holland

The Fourth Wise ManasAbgarus

DisorderliesasAlbert Dennison

Blind AlleyasDr. Shelby

Coast GuardasRaymond Dower

CarefreeasStephen Arden

The Memory of Eva RykerasWilliam E. Ryker

Woman in the DarkasJohn Bradley

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading ManasSelf

The Defender (Studio One)asWalter Preston

Lady on a TrainasJonathan Waring

Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmasDr Ladd

SpitfireasGeorge Fleetwood

Affectionately YoursasOwen Wright

Cancel My ReservationasJohn Ed

Sunrise at CampobelloasFranklin Delano Roosevelt

PowerasBen Frelinghuysen

Something EvilasHarry Lincoln

Murder on Flight 502asDr. Kenyon Walker

Ever in My HeartasJeff

Footsteps in the DarkasDr. R.L. Davis

Steve McQueen: Man on the EdgeasSelf (archive footage)

Fools for ScandalasPhillip Chester

Ellery Queen's Penthouse MysteryasEllery Queen

Ace of AcesasCaptain Blake

The ImmortalasDr. Matthew Pearce

Picture SnatcherasJ.R. 'Al' McLean

Before MidnightasInsp. Steve Trent

Wild GirlasJack Marbury

Smashing the Spy RingasJohn Baxter

Ellery Queen and the Murder RingasEllery Queen

West of BroadwayasMac

Breakdowns of 1938asPhilip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)

SurrenderasCaptain Ebbing

Navy WifeasDr. Quentin Harden

Public Deb No. 1asBruce Fairchild

GigoletteasTerry Gallagher

The Log of the Black PearlasCapt. Fitzsimmons

The Man Who Lived TwiceasSlick Rawley / Dr. James Blake

Lady in a JamasStanley

Wings of FireasDoug Sanborn

Young AmericaasJudge Blake

Meet the WildcatasLt. Brad Williams

Below the SeaasMcCreary

The HealerasDr. Holden

Counterfeit LadyasJohnny Pierce

Air MailasMike Miller

Men of TexasasMajor Lamphere

Girls' SchoolasMichael Hendragin

Who Killed Julie Greer?asJudge Hansen

Trade WindsasBen Blodgett

Adventures of the QueenasJ.L. Dundeen

The Magnificent LieasBill Childers

Queen of the MobasAgent Scott Langham
Westinghouse Presents: The DispossessedasLambertson

Ellery Queen, Master DetectiveasEllery Queen

Roaming LadyasDaniel S. 'Dan' Bailey

Love Leads the Way: A True StoryasSen. Christi

HelldoradoasJ.F. Van Avery

Doctors' WivesasJake Porter
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a SwashbucklerasSelf

Ellery Queen and the Perfect CrimeasEllery Queen

The Final HourasJohn Vickery

Parole GirlasSmith

Girl in DangerasInsp. Steve Trent

The Clone MasterasEzra Louthin

Boy Meets GirlasC. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday

Lugosi: The Forgotten King of HorrorasSelf

The Crime of Helen StanleyasInsp. Steve Trent

Straight from the ShoulderasCurt Hayden

The Billion Dollar ThreatasMiles Larson

The MillionaireasGeorge Mathews

Headline ShooterasHal

It Can't Last ForeverasRuss Matthews
The Christmas TreeasTheron

The Narrow CornerasEric Whittenson

Eight BellsasSteve Andrews

The Missiles of OctoberasU.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson

Let's Get MarriedasKirk Duncan

Air HawksasBarry Eldon

Return to EarthasCol. Edwin E. Aldrin

Flying Devilsas'Speed' Hardy

Cary Grant: A Class ApartasSelf (archive footage)

Blind AdventureasJim Steele

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a HangingasMcVea

Wild Brian KentasBrian Kent

The Great ImpersonationasSir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein

Affair in SumatraasDr. Martin Kelog

Rendezvous at MidnightasCommissioner Robert Edmonds

Destination UnknownasStowaway

Disorderly ConductasCaptain Tom Manning

This Man Is MineasJim Dunlap

The Crime of Doctor HalletasDr. Paul Hallet

The Woman in Room 13asJohn Bruce

Library of CongressasNarrator

The Big SlideasSelf - Announcing Next Week's Show

One Is GuiltyasInsp. Steve Trent

Search for the GodsasDr. Henderson

Once to Every WomanasDr. Barclay

Heritage of AngerasEddie Hanneman

Seeds of DestinyasNarrator

The 10 from Texasas(archive footage)

Almost MarriedasDeene Maxwell
The Maya Through the AgesasNarrator

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12asSelf (uncredited)

24 Hours of ProgressasNarrator