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 end of 1933 he had already appeared in 22 movies most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1932 and the second lead in the action film Picture Snatcher with James Cagney 1933 He 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 secondbilled under Fay Wray Bellamy kept up the pace through the decade receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth 1937 with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant and played a similar part that of a naive boyfriend competing with the sophisticated 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 1950s Bellamy appeared in other movies during this time including Dance Girl Dance 1940 with Maureen OHara and Lucille Ball and the horror classic The Wolf Man 1941 with Lon Chaney Jr and Evelyn Ankers He also appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein in 1942 with Chaney and Bela Lugosi Bellamy appeared in numerous television series In 1949 Bellamy starred in the television noir private eye series Man Against Crime also known as Follow That Man on the DuMont Television Network initially telecast live in its earliest seasons the program lasted until 1956 and was simulcast for a season on Dumont and NBC and ran on CBS during a different year The lead role was taken by Frank Lovejoy in 1956 who subsequently starred in NBCs Meet McGraw detective series An Emmy Award nomination for the miniseries The Winds of War 1983 in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin D Roosevelt brought him back into the spotlight Highly regarded within the industry Bellamy served as a fourterm President of Actors Equity from 19521964 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Bellamy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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