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Ralph Bellamy was a veteran actor who had enjoyed stardom for a time and mostly performed in character roles. He had performed for six decades on stage, in films and on television. Tall, well built and distinguished looking with wavy hair, a square jaw, light blue eyes and a booming resonant voice he was a natural for playing authoritarian types. He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois on June 17, 1904 the son of an advertising executive. As a youngster he disliked school and studying but he did become the President of his high school drama club. On a summer vacation as a teen he worked for a time as a bellboy at Balboa Bay in California where he met actress Louise Lovely.
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Synopsis: Grant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the desperado Raza (Jack Palance) in this Western adventure set in 1917. Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is a munitions expert who joins gunslinger Fardan (LeeRead More
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Tall, handsome and charming, Ralph Bellamy had all the characteristics of the typical Hollywood leading man, yet he found himself making a career out of supporting roles. He had a rare turn in the title role when he took on the redoubtable Ellery Queen in a series of B movies in the early 40’s. But his greatest acclaim, in fact his greatest supporting role of all, would come about off screen as he became a public voice for his fellow actors.
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From his late teens to his late 20s, Ralph Bellamy worked with 15 different traveling stock companies, not just as an actor but ... 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.
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Ralph Bellamy, the well-known stage and film "character" actor, began his career in 1922 when he joined a traveling troupe of Shakespearean players. Later that same year, Bellamy performed in stock and repertory theatres with the Chautauqua Road Company. In 1929, he made his broadway debut in Town Boy followed by a screen debut in 1931 in The Secret Six. In 1948 he made his a television debut in the Philco Television Playhouse. He then went on to star in one of the medium's first crime series, Man Against Crime, from 1949-55.
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Ralph Bellamy stars as tough private-eye Mike Barnett in this lean and violent TV series "Follow That Man" (aka "Man Against Crime") from the early 1950s. Created by Lawrence Klee for the Dumont Network in 1949, this program was originally broadcast live until 1952. The crime-filled episodes in this collection are from the 1953-54 seasons.
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