When was ralph bellamy born

His career spanned eight decades in all, in which he acted with such ease and regal quality that he could do any role. In , he was given an Honorary Oscar. The son of a Chicago advertising executive, he did not care much for scholastics, but did well in the school drama club. At 15, he had a brief job as an extra on a film and it may well have been then that the acting bug bit him. He was expelled from school in his senior year for smoking under the stage, so he worked as a soda jerk, a store clerk and a fruit packer.

He ran away from home at 17 and joined a Shakespearean theatre company where he learned to act during the '20s in stock productions. Moving on to New York, he found that the big city was not ready for him and reached a point so low that he was living on peanuts, literally, and once stole a bottle of milk from a doorstep.

Bellamy continued to work in stock companies while haunting the offices of agents. Finally he won a role. His debut on the New York stage was in "Town Boy," It closed after two performances, but it led to a good job as leading man with a company in Rochester, playing opposite Helen Hayes.

In , he became a founding director of the Screen Actors Guild and throughout his career was active in organizations designed to help actors. Create a list ». If TCM Remembered Dragnet premiere.

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This group consisted of a group of Hollywood A-listers who were mainly of Irish descent. Ralph Bellamy Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor with a career that spanned sixty-two years.