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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937). His film career began with The Secret Six (1931) starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the ...
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Complete Filmography

Lugosi: The Forgotten King of Horror
2016
as Self
The first-ever authorized film about the legendary horror actor, Bela Lugosi, the man who portrayed Dracula, Hollywood's most famous Vampire.

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews. Produced as S18E03 of the long running seri...

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994
as Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series...

Pretty Woman
1990
as James Morse
While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a pros...

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never staye...

The Good Mother
1988
as Grandfather Frank
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influ...

Coming to America
1988
as Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise...

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
as Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird ...

Disorderlies
1987
as Albert Dennison
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison...

Lugosi: The Forgotten King
1986
as Self
A one hour documentary on the life of one of Hollywood's neglected horror icons, hosted by fear fan extraordinare Forrest J Ackerman & interviews with...

The Fourth Wise Man
1985
as Abgarus
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family...

Love Leads the Way: A True Story
1984
as Sen. Christi
Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.

Trading Places
1983
as Randolph Duke
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983
as Self
Narrated by actor Christopher Lee, this documentary details the life of timeless Hollywood adventure hero and sex symbol Errol Flynn, who swung his wa...

The Memory of Eva Ryker
1980
as William E. Ryker
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an inves...

Power
1980
as Ben Frelinghuysen
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leade...

The Billion Dollar Threat
1979
as Miles Larson
A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one bill...

The Millionaire
1978
as George Mathews
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...

The Clone Master
1978
as Ezra Louthin
In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.

Oh, God!
1977
as Sam Raven
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
1977
as McVea
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's ne...

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
1976
as Dr. Gunther
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is compl...

Nightmare in Badham County
1976
as Judge
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women'...

Return to Earth
1976
as Col. Edwin E. Aldrin
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his ma...

Murder on Flight 502
1975
as Dr. Kenyon Walker
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.

Search for the Gods
1975
as Dr. Henderson
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.

Adventures of the Queen
1975
as J.L. Dundeen
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box...

The Log of the Black Pearl
1975
as Capt. Fitzsimmons
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But ...

The Missiles of October
1974
as U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cancel My Reservation
1972
as John Ed
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the l...

Something Evil
1972
as Harry Lincoln
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants ...

Doctors' Wives
1971
as Jake Porter
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and ...

The Immortal
1969
as Dr. Matthew Pearce
A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-million...

Rosemary's Baby
1968
as Dr. Sapirstein
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the pur...

Wings of Fire
1967
as Doug Sanborn
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned h...

The Professionals
1966
as Grant
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
1961
as Lambertson
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. D...

Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961
as Judge Hansen
Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of a...

The 10 from Texas
1961
as (archive footage)

Sunrise at Campobello
1960
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From b...
The Christmas Tree
1958
as Theron
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s...

The Defender (Studio One)
1957
as Walter Preston
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments ...

Heritage of Anger
1956
as Eddie Hanneman
Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. Howev...

The Big Slide
1956
as Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is a...

Affair in Sumatra
1956
as Dr. Martin Kelog
On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose between her people and the doctor she loves.

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955
as Congressman Frank R. Reid
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial figh...

24 Hours of Progress
1950
as Narrator
Linking free enterprise with freedom and democracy, 24 Hours of Progress shows the oil industry at work and Americans using oil-based products.
The Maya Through the Ages
1950
as Narrator
Documentary on the Mayan culture.

Seeds of Destiny
1946
as Narrator
Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Strident but poignant, focusing on ch...

Lady on a Train
1945
as Jonathan Waring
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one t...

Delightfully Dangerous
1945
as Arthur Hale
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage...

Library of Congress
1945
as Narrator
A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. ...

Guest in the House
1944
as Douglas Proctor
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother,...

Stage Door Canteen
1943
as Ralph Bellamy
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati...

The Great Impersonation
1942
as Sir Edward Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragenstein
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.

Men of Texas
1942
as Major Lamphere
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.

Lady in a Jam
1942
as Stanley
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of ...

The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
as Erik Ernst
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan go...

The Wolf Man
1941
as Colonel Montford
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten b...

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
as Ellery Queen
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by ...

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941
as Ellery Queen
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to...

Affectionately Yours
1941
as Owen Wright
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941
as Ellery Queen
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son,...

Footsteps in the Dark
1941
as Dr. R.L. Davis
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...

Dive Bomber
1941
as Lance Rogers
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a ste...

Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940
as Ellery Queen
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Meet the Wildcat
1940
as Lt. Brad Williams
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced...

Public Deb No. 1
1940
as Bruce Fairchild
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his c...

Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
as Steve Adams
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career...

Queen of the Mob
1940
as Agent Scott Langham
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Brother Orchid
1940
as Clarence P. Fletcher
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel...

Flight Angels
1940
as Bill Graves
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norv...

His Girl Friday
1940
as Bruce Baldwin
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wi...

Coast Guard
1939
as Raymond Dower
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the l...

Blind Alley
1939
as Dr. Shelby
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Let Us Live
1939
as Lieutenant Everett
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in...

Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Philip Chester (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Smashing the Spy Ring
1938
as John Baxter
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.

Trade Winds
1938
as Ben Blodgett
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and...

Girls' School
1938
as Michael Hendragin
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fl...

Carefree
1938
as Stephen Arden
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunders...

Boy Meets Girl
1938
as C. Elliott 'C.F.' Friday
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie abo...

Fools for Scandal
1938
as Phillip Chester
An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.

The Crime of Doctor Hallet
1938
as Dr. Paul Hallet
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.

The Awful Truth
1937
as Dan Leeson
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Screen Snapshots: Series 16, No. 12
1937
as Self (uncredited)
A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita Racetrack...

It Can't Last Forever
1937
as Russ Matthews
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspap...

Let's Get Married
1937
as Kirk Duncan
Let's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of a political consultant, Joe Quinn. From Wikipedia

Counterfeit Lady
1936
as Johnny Pierce
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she ...

Wild Brian Kent
1936
as Brian Kent
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is ...

The Man Who Lived Twice
1936
as Dr. James Blake / 'Slick' Rawley
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.

Straight from the Shoulder
1936
as Curt Hayden
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.

The Final Hour
1936
as John Vickery
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.

Roaming Lady
1936
as Daniel S. 'Dan' Bailey
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and ...

Hands Across the Table
1935
as Allen Macklyn
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Navy Wife
1935
as Dr. Quentin Harden
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

The Healer
1935
as Dr. Holden
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman...

Air Hawks
1935
as Barry Eldon
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.

Eight Bells
1935
as Steve Andrews
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.

The Wedding Night
1935
as Fredrik Sobieski
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a...

Gigolette
1935
as Terry Gallagher
Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New Y...

Rendezvous at Midnight
1935
as Commissioner Robert Edmonds
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who ...

Helldorado
1935
as J.F. Van Avery
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to repl...

Woman in the Dark
1934
as John Bradley
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is dis...

Girl in Danger
1934
as Insp. Steve Trent
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

One Is Guilty
1934
as Insp. Steve Trent
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-u...

The Crime of Helen Stanley
1934
as Insp. Steve Trent
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

This Man Is Mine
1934
as Jim Dunlap
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.

Once to Every Woman
1934
as Dr. Barclay
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

Spitfire
1934
as George Fleetwood
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a ...

Before Midnight
1933
as Insp. Steve Trent
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.

Ever in My Heart
1933
as Jeff
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

Ace of Aces
1933
as Captain Blake
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergo...

Blind Adventure
1933
as Jim Steele
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they tr...

Headline Shooter
1933
as Hal
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Flying Devils
1933
as 'Speed' Hardy
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.

The Narrow Corner
1933
as Eric Whittenson
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Picture Snatcher
1933
as J.R. 'Al' McLean
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Destination Unknown
1933
as Stowaway
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

Below the Sea
1933
as McCreary
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.

Parole Girl
1933
as Smith
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

Wild Girl
1932
as Jack Marbury
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two crimina...

Air Mail
1932
as Mike Miller
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

Almost Married
1932
as Deene Maxwell
Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Dr Ladd
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel...

The Woman in Room 13
1932
as John Bruce
Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he i...

Young America
1932
as Judge Blake
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arth...

Disorderly Conduct
1932
as Captain Tom Manning
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.

Forbidden
1932
as Al Holland
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby ...

Surrender
1931
as Captain Ebbing
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.

West of Broadway
1931
as Mac
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met...

The Magnificent Lie
1931
as Bill Childers
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.

The Secret Six
1931
as Johnny Franks
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scor...