Known for:	Pretty Woman, His Girl Friday, Trading Places
Birth name:	Ralph Rexford Bellamy
Birthday:	17 June 1904, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height:	6' 1½" (1.87 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Was one of the most popular and durable actors in Hollywood, playing everything from handsome heroes in his youth to villainous old men later in his career. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 37-38. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Went to New Trier High School, as did Rock Hudson, Hugh O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair. 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.". Had a daughter named Lynn and an adopted son named Willard. 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. Ran away from home at age 17 to join a traveling band of Shakespearean players. He also worked as an usher at Ravinia Park Open Air Pavilion. As a boy he delivered newspapers and groceries, and worked as a soda jerk at a drugstore. 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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