A vintage 5x3 card signed by Ralph Bellamy, the 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 in movies such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932), The Awful Truth (1937), (receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), His Girl Friday (1940), the horror classic The Wolf Man (1941) with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers, and one of his most famous roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. After a spell in the 60s concentrating mostly on TV he starred in a western, The Professionals (1966) as an oil tycoon married to Claudia Cardinale opposite adventurers Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin, and in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968) he was an evil physician. An Emmy Award nomination for the TV mini-series The Winds of War (1983) – in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin Roosevelt – was quickly followed by his role as Randolph Duke, a conniving billionaire commodities trader in Trading Places (1983) alongside Don Ameche. The 1988 Eddie Murphy film, Coming to America, included a brief cameo by Bellamy and Don Ameche, reprising their roles as the Duke brothers. Bellamy continued working regularly and gave his final performance, before his death from a lung ailment, in Pretty Woman (1990).
Ralph Bellamy
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