Ralph Bellamy
Gender: Male
Born: 17th June 1904
Died: 29th November 1991
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Frontier Justice, The Most Deadly Game, Man Against Crime, The Eleventh Hour, Hunter (1977), The Winds of War, Once an Eagle, The Bell Telephone Hour, War and Remembrance, Harold Robbins' The Survivors, Christine Cromwell
Movies: Carefree, Oh, God!, Pretty Woman, Sunrise at Campobello, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Secret Six, The Wolf Man, His Girl Friday, The Missiles of October, Rosemary's Baby, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wild Girl, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Disorderlies, The Good Mother, Spitfire, Trading Places, The Awful Truth, Once to Every Woman, Air Mail, Forbidden, Footsteps in the Dark, Fools for Scandal, Amazon Women on the Moon, Delightfully Dangerous, The Healer, Guest in the House, The Wedding Night, Dive Bomber, The Man who Lived Twice, Terror in the Aisles, Blind Alley, Blind Adventure, The Professionals, The Winds of War, Once an Eagle, Brother Orchid, Coming to America, Dance, Girl, Dance, Picture Snatcher, Stage Door Canteen, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, Wild Brian Kent, Lady on a Train, Cancel My Reservation, Murder on Flight 502, Flight Angels, Let Us Live, West of Broadway, Ace of Aces, Ace of Aces, The Fourth Wise Man, Defender
Ralph Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned sixty-two years.
He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise (née Smith), a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was fifteen and managed to get into a road show. He toured with road shows before finally landing in New York City, New York. He began acting on stage there and by 1927 owned his own theatre company. In 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade first as a lead then as a capable supporting actor. Bellamy was cast in the lead role in the film Straight from the Shoulder (1936) and also in the film It Can't Last Forever (1937) with Edward J. Pawley.
He received 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
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