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From his late teens to his late 20s, Ralph Bellamy worked with 15 different traveling stock companies, not... (Learn more)

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Ralph Bellamy’s Milestones
As a boy, delivered newspapers and groceries, and worked as a soda jerk at a local drugstore
Founded The Ralph Bellamy Players
Panelist on TV quiz show, "To Tell the Truth"
Starred in first TV series, "The Man Against Crime"
Starred on TV series, "The Eleventh Hour"
1921 Ran away from home at age 16 to join a William Owen's band of traveling Shakespearean players
1921 Worked as an usher at Ravinia Park Open Air Pavilion
1922 Began performing in stock and repertory with the Chautaupua Road Company; first play was "The Shepherd of the Hills"
1922 - 1923 Toured with stock companies
1929 Broadway debut, "Town Boy"
1931 Screen debut in "The Secret Six"
1933 Founding member, Screen Actors Guild
1934 Returned to Broadway stage in "Oh, Men! Oh, Women!"
1944 Debut as Broadway producer and director, "Pretty Little Parlor"
1945 Returned to Broadway in "State of the Union"
1948 TV debut, "Philco Television Playhouse"
1991 Hospitalized with respiratory illness (August 27)

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Quick Facts

Also known as

AKA : Ralph Rexford Bellamy

Born

June, 17 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Education

  • New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois: president of the drama club

Professions

actor