Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 65 years on stage, film, and television.
21 Facts About Ralph Bellamy
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Ralph Bellamy was the son of Lilla Louise, a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy.
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Ralph Bellamy ran away from home when he was 15 and managed to gain employment in a road show.
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Ralph Bellamy toured with road shows before finally landing in New York City.
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Ralph Bellamy began acting on stage there and, by 1927, owned his own theater company.
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Ralph Bellamy 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.
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Ralph Bellamy 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.
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Ralph Bellamy appeared in other movies during this time, including Dance, Girl, Dance with Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball, and the horror classic The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney, Jr.
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Ralph Bellamy appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein with Chaney and Bela Lugosi.
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Ralph Bellamy appeared on Broadway as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello, winning a Tony Award for the role in 1957.
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Ralph Bellamy reprised the role in the 1960 film version.
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In 1950, Ralph Bellamy became a member of The Lambs, an actors club located in New York.
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Ralph Bellamy appeared in Death Valley Days as Daniel Quint, a minister.
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Highly regarded within the industry, Ralph Bellamy served four terms as the president of Actors' Equity from 1952 to 1964.
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On film, Ralph Bellamy starred in The Professionals as an oil tycoon, and in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby as an evil physician.
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Ralph Bellamy played many roles in numerous shows, sometimes as a series regular.
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Ralph Bellamy was a member of the cast of the short-lived series Hunter in 1977.
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Ralph Bellamy continued working regularly and gave his final performance in Pretty Woman.
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Ralph Bellamy opened the Palm Springs Racquet Club in Palm Springs, California, with fellow actor Charles Farrell in 1934.
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Ralph Bellamy was married four times: first to Alice Delbridge, then to Catherine Willard.
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On November 29,1991, Ralph Bellamy died from a lung ailment at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.