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Ralph Bellamy and Barbara Stanwyck in Sehnsucht ohne Ende (1932)
Was one of the most popular and durable actors in Hollywood, playing everything from handsome heroes in his youth to nefarious old men later in his career.
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Ralph Bellamy, John Cassavetes, and Mia Farrow in Rosemaries Baby (1968)
Won Broadway's 1958 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for his portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello", a role that he recreated in the movie version also titled Sunrise at Campobello (1960).
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Ralph Bellamy, Robert Armstrong, and Helen Mack in Blind Adventure (1933)
Attended New Trier High School, as did Rock Hudson, Hugh B. O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.
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Ralph Bellamy and Shirley Grey in One Is Guilty (1934)
In Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940), Bellamy's character, as happened in several movies, loses his girl to Cary Grant. At one point in the movie, as the conniving newspaper editor, Grant is giving a henchman directions to help him identify Bellamy's character, and Grant says, "He looks like Ralph Bellamy.".
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Ralph Bellamy, Leila Hyams, and Alexander Kirkland in Surrender (1931)
Turned down the role of Noah Cross in Chinatown (1974); the role was played by John Huston instead.
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Randolph Scott and Ralph Bellamy in Coast Guard (1939)
Was the eldest of three children born to Charles Rexford Bellamy, who was employed with an advertising agency, and Lilla Louise Smith. One of his younger siblings, a boy, died a couple of days after birth.
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Ralph Bellamy and Stanley Andrews in Wild Brian Kent (1936)
Ralph owned his own stock company for four seasons (1926-1930). It was called "The Ralph Bellamy Players" and it toured Nashville, Evanston, and Iowa (including Des Moines). Overall, he spent nine years in repertory and touring companies, playing over 400 roles, including an average of two or three in each play.
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Ralph Bellamy and Adrienne Ames in Gigolette (1935)
Attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. He was president of the Drama Club there. However, he was expelled for smoking on school grounds,.
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Ralph Bellamy and Errol Flynn in Mr. X auf Abwegen (1941)
While he was under contract for Columbia Pictures, he directed a screen test for a xylophone player in New York in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You (1938). The xylophone did not get the role.
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Ralph Bellamy and Beryl Mercer in Young America (1932)
As a boy, he delivered newspapers and groceries, and worked as a soda jerk at a drugstore.
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Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, and James Daly in Verdammt zum Schweigen (1955)
Had played Franklin D. Roosevelt four times: on stage, in a movie and in two miniseries.
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Ralph Bellamy, Douglass Dumbrille, and Joan Perry in Counterfeit Lady (1936)
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 55-56. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
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Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay in Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
He was a liberal Democrat who supported Franklin D. Roosevelt during his time in office.
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Ralph Bellamy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Patricia Ellis in The Narrow Corner (1933)
He was regularly seen socially with a select circle of friends known as the Irish Mafia.
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Ralph Bellamy and Ruth Chatterton in The Magnificent Lie (1931)
He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933.
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Ralph Bellamy and Ruth Chatterton in The Magnificent Lie (1931)
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6542 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
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Ralph Bellamy, Darren Robinson, Damon Wimbley, and Mark Morales in Das Chaoten-Team (1987)
He was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on February 26, 1992.
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Ralph Bellamy, Darren Robinson, Damon Wimbley, and Mark Morales in Das Chaoten-Team (1987)
Following his death, he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles, California.
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Ralph Bellamy, Darren Robinson, Damon Wimbley, and Mark Morales in Das Chaoten-Team (1987)
He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Awful Truth (1937), His Girl Friday (1940), Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) and Rosemary's Baby (1968).
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