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Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy
in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble(1976) Born Ralph Rexford Bellamy
June 17, 1904(1904-06-17)
Chicago, IllinoisDied November 29, 1991(aged 87)
Santa Monica, CaliforniaOccupation Film, stageactorSpouse(s) Alice Delbridge (1927-1930)
Catherine Willard (1931-1945)
Ethel Smith(1945-1947)
Alice Murphy (1949-1991) Awards won Academy AwardsAcademy Honorary Award
1987 Lifetime Achievement Screen Actors Guild AwardsLife Achievement Award
1984 Lifetime Achievement Tony AwardsBest Leading Actor in a Play
1958 Sunrise at CampobelloOther Awards Hollywood Walk of Fame
6542 Hollywood Boulevard

Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years.

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Biography

Early life

Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise (née Smith), a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy.[1] 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 decade to establish himself as a capable supporting actor. Bellamy received the lead role in the 1936 film Straight from the Shoulder.

Film career

He 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 (a 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 1940s, but as his film career did not progress, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the fifties. Highly regarded within the industry, he was a founder of the Screen Actors Guild and served as President of Actors' Equity from 1952-1964.

He was briefly married to organist Ethel Smith from 1945 to 1947.[2] Bellamy was also married to Alice Delbridge (1927-1930), Catherine Willard (1931-1945), and, finally, Alice Murphy (1949-1991).

Bellamy was a regular panelist on the CBS television game show To Tell the Truth during its initial run. He also starred in the television detective series Follow that Man, AKA Man Against Crime

in Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

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. In the summer of 1961, Bellamy hosted nine original episodes of a CBS Western anthology series called Frontier Justice, a Dick Powell Four Star Television production.

On film, he also starred in Rosemary's Baby (1968) as a devilish physician, before turning to television during the 1970s. 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 - brought him back into the limelight. This was quickly followed by his role as Randolph Duke, a conniving billionaire alongside Don Ameche in Trading Places (1983).

In the 1988 Eddie Murphy film, Coming to America, Bellamy and co-star Don Ameche reprised a one-scene cameo of their roles as the Duke brothers. After Randolph and Mortimer Duke lost their enormous fortune at the end of Trading Places, in Coming to America, the brothers are homeless and living on the streets. Prince Akeem (Murphy) gives them a paper bag filled with money, which they gratefully accept and exclaim "We're back!" (failing to notice that the generous Akeem bears an uncanny resemblance to Billy Ray Valentine, the man who had ruined them).

Final years

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.

Awards and honours

Bellamy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6542 Hollywood Boulevard.

In a 2007 episode of Boston Legal, footage of a 1957 episode of Studio One was used. The episode featured Bellamy and William Shatner as a father-son duo of lawyers. This was used in the present-day to explain the relationship between Shatner's Denny Crane character and his father in the show.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ rootsweb entry
  2. ^ Richard Lamparski, Whatever Became Of ....? , Third Series, Crown Publishers, Inc., NYC, 1970

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ralph Bellamy v • d • eTony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

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PersondataNAME Bellamy, Ralph ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellamy, Ralph Rexford SHORT DESCRIPTION ActorDATE OF BIRTH 1904-6-17 PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago, IllinoisDATE OF DEATH 1991-11-29 PLACE OF DEATH Santa Monica, California
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