Ralph Bellamy

Highest Rated: 100% The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Good Mother (The Price of Passion) (1988)

Birthday: Jun 17, 1904

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

From his late teens to his late 20s, Ralph Bellamy worked with 15 different traveling stock companies, not just as an actor but also as a director, producer, set designer, and prop handler. In 1927 he started his own company, the Ralph Bellamy Players. He debuted on Broadway in 1929, then broke into films in 1931. He went on to play leads in dozens of B-movies; he also played the title role in the "Ellery Queen" series. For his work in The Awful Truth (1937) he received an Oscar nomination, playing the "other man" who loses the girl to the hero; he was soon typecast in this sort of role in sophisticated comedies. After 1945 his film work was highly sporadic as he changed his focus to the stage, going on to play leads in many Broadway productions; for his portrayal of FDR in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) he won a Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Award. From 1940-60 he served on the State of California Arts Commission. From 1952-64 he was the president of Actors' Equity. In 1986 he was awarded an honorary Oscar "for his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting." He authored an autobiography, When the Smoke Hits the Fan (1979).

Photos

View All Photos

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Wild Girl	Actor	—	2012
63%	Pretty Woman	James Morse	—	1990
50%	The Good Mother (The Price of Passion)	Grandfather	—	1988
67%	Coming to America	Randolph Duke	—	1988
59%	Amazon Women on the Moon	Mr. Gower	$0.6M	1987
No Score Yet	Disorderlies	Albert Dennison	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Fourth Wise Man	Actor	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Power	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	Love Leads the Way	Sen. Christl	—	1984
87%	Trading Places	Randolph Duke	—	1983
72%	Oh, God!	Sam Raven	—	1977
No Score Yet	Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging	McVea	—	1977
No Score Yet	The Boy in the Plastic Bubble	Dr. Gunther	—	1976
No Score Yet	Nightmare in Badham County	Judge	—	1976
No Score Yet	Murder on Flight 502	Dr. Kenyon Walker	—	1975
No Score Yet	Search for the Gods	Dr. Henderson	—	1975
83%	The Missiles of October	Adlai Stevenson	—	1974
No Score Yet	Cancel My Reservation	John Ed	—	1972
No Score Yet	Something Evil	Harry Lincoln	—	1972
No Score Yet	Doctors' Wives	Jake Porter	—	1971
96%	Rosemary's Baby	Dr. Sapirstein	—	1968
88%	The Professionals	J.W. Grant	—	1966
88%	Sunrise at Campobello	Franklin D. Roosevelt	—	1960
No Score Yet	Defender	Actor	—	1957
100%	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	Congressman Frank R. Reid	—	1955
No Score Yet	Lady on a Train	Jonathan Waring	—	1945
No Score Yet	Delightfully Dangerous	Arthur Hale	—	1945
No Score Yet	Guest in the House	Douglas Proctor	—	1944
No Score Yet	Stage Door Canteen	Stage Door Canteen Star	—	1943
75%	Ghost of Frankenstein	Erik	—	1942
94%	The Wolf Man	Capt. Paul Montford	—	1941
No Score Yet	Dive Bomber	Dr. Lance Rogers	—	1941
No Score Yet	Affectionately Yours	Owen Wright	—	1941
No Score Yet	Footsteps in the Dark	Dr. Davis	—	1941
No Score Yet	Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery	Ellery Queen	—	1941
80%	Dance, Girl, Dance	Steve Adams	—	1940
No Score Yet	Brother Orchid	Clarence Fletcher	—	1940
98%	His Girl Friday	Bruce Baldwin	—	1940
No Score Yet	Flight Angels	Actor	—	1940
No Score Yet	Let Us Live	Police Lt. Everett	—	1939
No Score Yet	Blind Alley	Dr. Anthony Shelby	—	1939
No Score Yet	Trade Winds	Ben Blodgett	—	1938
70%	Boy Meets Girl	E. Elliott Friday	—	1938
No Score Yet	Fools for Scandal	Phillip `Phil' Chester	—	1938
57%	Carefree	Stephen Arden	—	1938
93%	The Awful Truth	Daniel Leeson	—	1937
No Score Yet	Wild Brian Kent	Brian Kent	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Man Who Lived Twice	Dr. James Blake/'Slick' Rawley	—	1936
No Score Yet	Dr. Socrates	Actor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Hands Across the Table	Allen Macklyn	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Healer	Dr.Holden	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Wedding Night	Fredrik Sobieski	—	1935
No Score Yet	Woman in the Dark	John Bradley	—	1934
No Score Yet	Spitfire	George Fleetwood	—	1934
No Score Yet	This Man Is Mine	Jim Dunlap	—	1934
No Score Yet	Ever in My Heart	Jeff	—	1933
No Score Yet	Ace of Aces	Capt./Maj. Blake	—	1933
No Score Yet	Headline Shooter	Hal Caldwell	—	1933
No Score Yet	Picture Snatcher	McLean	—	1933
No Score Yet	Below the Sea	Steve McCreary	—	1933
No Score Yet	Blind Adventure	Jim Steele	—	1933
No Score Yet	Air Mail	Mike Miller	—	1932
No Score Yet	Young America (We Humans)	Judge Blake	—	1932
No Score Yet	Disorderly Conduct	Tom Manning	—	1932
No Score Yet	Forbidden	Holland	—	1932
No Score Yet	Surrender	Capt. Ebbing	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Secret Six	Johnny Franks	—	1931

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	Matlock 1986-1995	Crawford Senator Crawford	1993 1987
No Score Yet	War and Remembrance 1988-1989	President Franklin D. Roosevelt	1989 1988
No Score Yet	The Winds of War 1983	FDR	1983
No Score Yet	Little House on the Prairie 1974-1984	Dr. Marvin Haynes	1983 1979
No Score Yet	The Bob Newhart Show 1972-1978	Alan Dreesen	1977
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Sheriff Bassett	1967
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Quince's Brother Dickson	1965 1961
No Score Yet	Testimony of Two Men 1977	Dr. Jim Spaulding

QUOTES FROM Ralph Bellamy CHARACTERS

Mortimer Duke says: Randolph! Randolph!

Randolph Duke says: I"m still not talking to you Mortimer!

Mortimer Duke says: Look!

Randolph Duke says: Mortimer, we're back!

Mortimer Duke says: Yeah!