Ralph Bellamy
Biography
Date of Birth 17 June 1904, Chicago, Illinois, USA Date of Death 29 November 1991, Santa Monica, California, USA (lung ailment) Birth Name Ralph Rexford Bellamy Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Ralph Rexford Bellamy was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years. Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began his acting career on stage, and by 1927 owned his own theatre company. In 1931 he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the thirties, establishing himself as a capable supporting actor. Bellamy received the lead role in the 1936 film Straight from the Shoulder. He then received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) opposite Irene Dunne and Cary Grant and played a similar part (the naive, aw-shucks boyfriend competing with the sophisticated light-comedy Grant character) in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the forties, but as his film career had not progressed, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the fifties. Highly regarded within the industry, he served four years as President of Actors' Equity. Bellamy was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth during its initial run. On Broadway he appeared in one of his most famous roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. He later starred in the 1960 film version. On film, he also starred in Rosemary's Baby (1968) as a sweet talking but devilish physician, before turning to television during the seventies. An Emmy Award nomination for the mini-series The Winds of War (1983), in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin Roosevelt, and a role as a conniving billionaire alongside Don Ameche in Trading Places (also 1983) brought him back into the limelight. In 1984 he was presented with a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, and in 1987 received an Honorary Academy Award "for his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting." Among his later roles was a memorable appearance as a once-brilliant but increasingly forgetful lawyer sadly skewered by the Jimmy Smits character on an episode of L.A. Law. He continued working regularly and gave his final performance in Pretty Woman (1990). He died as a result of a lung ailment in Santa Monica, California at the age of 87, and was buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Bellamy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6542 Hollywood Boulevard.
Pretty Woman
James Morse
The Wolf Man
Colonel Montford
The Awful Truth
'Dan' Leeson
His Girl Friday
Bruce Baldwin
Murder on Flight 502
Dr. Kenyon Walker
Dive Bomber
Lance Rogers
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Congressman Frank R. Reid
Lady on a Train
Jonathan Waring
Picture Snatcher
McLean
Guest in the House
Douglas Proctor
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Himself (1988 interview) (archive footage)
100 Years of Horror
Himself / ... (4 episodes, 1996)
Pretty Woman
James Morse
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
(archive footage)
Coming to America
Randolph Duke
The Good Mother
Grandfather
Amazon Women on the Moon
Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
Disorderlies
Albert Dennison
The Fourth Wise Man - DVD
Abgarus
Terror in the Aisles
Doctor Abraham Sapirstein (in 'Rosemary's Baby') (archive footage) (uncredited)
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Sen. Christi
Trading Places
Randolph Duke
The Clone Master
Ezra Louthin
Oh, God!
Sam Raven
The Boy In The Plastic Bubble
Dr. Ernest Gunther
Nightmare in Badham County
Judge
Murder on Flight 502
Dr. Kenyon Walker
Search for the Gods
Dr. Henderson
Black Pearl
Captain Fitzsimmons
The Missiles of October
U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
Cancel My Reservation
John Ed
Something Evil
Harry Lincoln
Doctors' Wives
Jake Porter
Rosemary's Baby
Dr. Sapirstein
The Professionals
Joe Grant
Sunrise at Campobello
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Congressman Frank R. Reid
Lady on a Train
Jonathan Waring
Delightfully Dangerous
Arthur Hale
Guest in the House
Douglas Proctor
Stage Door Canteen
Ralph Bellamy
Lady in a Jam
Stanley Gardner
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Erik
The Wolf Man
Colonel Montford
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Ellery Queen
Dive Bomber
Lance Rogers
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Ellery Queen
Dr. R.L. Davis
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Ellery Queen
Dance, Girl, Dance
Steve Adams
Brother Orchid
Clarence P. Fletcher
His Girl Friday
Bruce Baldwin
Blind Alley
Dr. Shelby
Let Us Live
Lieutenant Everett
Trade Winds
Ben Blodgett
Girls' School
Michael Hendragin
Carefree
Stephen Arden
Phillip Chester
Breakdowns of 1938
Philip Chester (Fools for Scandal outtakes) (uncredited)
The Awful Truth
'Dan' Leeson
The Man Who Lived Twice
'Slick' Rawley aka Dr. James Blake
The Final Hour
John Vickery
Hands Across the Table
Allen Macklyn
Little Pal (aka The Healer)
Dr. Holden
Air Hawks
Barry Eldon
The Wedding Night
Fredrik Sobieski
Mistaken Heiress
Terry Gallagher
Woman in the Dark
John Bradley
Murder in the Studio
Insp. Steve Trent
This Man Is Mine
Jim Dunlap
Argento vivo
George Fleetwood
Once to Every Woman
Dr. Jim Barclay
Ace of Aces
Capt. / Maj. Blake
Blind Adventure
Jim Steele
Hal
'Speed' Hardy
Eric Whittenson
Picture Snatcher
McLean
Parole Girl
Joseph B. 'Joe' Smith
Wild Girl
Jack Marbury
Air Mail
Mike Miller
Forbidden
Holland
Captain Ebbing
West of Broadway
Mac
The Secret 6
Johnny Franks
Boy Meets Girl
C. Elliott Friday
