Want to know the best Ralph Bellamy movies? How about the worst Ralph Bellamy movies? Curious about Ralph Bellamy box office grosses or which Ralph Bellamy movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ralph Bellamy movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Ralph Bellamy (1904-1991) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor. Bellamy’s movie career covered 7 decades. His IMDb page shows 199 acting credits from 1931-1990. This page will rank 55 Ralph Bellamy movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television roles, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North America were not included in the rankings.
Drivel part of the page: The good news? Every Ralph Bellamy movie from 1941 to 1990 is on the following table. The bad news? Between 1931 and 1940 Bellamy was a movie making machine. He made 67 movies or almost 7 movies a year for that time frame. We sadly were only able to find box office information on 27 of those movies. Yes were are also disappointed in our 60% fail rate. This page was requested by Cogerson Hall of Fame commenter Søren, a very very long time ago….sorry for the delay Søren.
Ralph Bellamy Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Ralph Bellamy Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Ralph Bellamy movies by co-stars of his movies.
- SortRalph Bellamy movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ralph Bellamy movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Ralph Bellamy movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Ralph Bellamy movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Ralph Bellamy movie won.
- Sort Ralph Bellamy movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Ten Possibly Interesting Facts About Ralph Bellamy
1. Ralph Rexford Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1904.
2. Ralph Bellamy ran away from home when he was 15 and managed to get into a road show. He toured with road shows before finally landing in New York City. He began acting on stage there and by 1927 owned his own theater company.
3. Ralph Bellamy’s first screen appearance was in 1931’s The Secret Six. Newcomers Clark Gable and Jean Harlow were also part of the cast of The Secret Six.
4. Ralph Bellamy was nominated for one Academy Award®. He received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for 1937’s The Awful Truth.
5. For his “For his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting. “, Ralph Bellamy was awarded a Honorary Oscar® in 1987.
6. Ralph Bellamy was married four times and had two children.
7. Ralph Bellamy played Franklin D. Roosevelt four times: on stage, in a movie and in two miniseries.
8. For Belfast Bob: Ralph Bellamy was regularly seen socially with a select circle of friends known as the Irish Mafia.
9. 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.”. Love this Cary Grant ad lib.
10. Check out Ralph Bellamy’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Steve’s Ralph Bellamy YouTube Video
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Added Steve’s Ralph Bellamy video to this page. Our thoughts found on his chanel.
Good video. Voted up and shared on our Ralph Bellamy page. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/ralph-bellamy-movies/
I have seen 14 of his movies…12 made your video. Favorites include his two Cary Grant movies, Trading Places, and Pretty Woman (that is one of WoC’s favorites). One of the great character actors. Good stuff.
Hi Bruce, your tally 12 of the 40 on the video, I’ve seen 12 too, Flora has seen 18.
Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche were great in Trading Places, a fun movie I should watch again. I also included their cameo in Coming to America.
Thanks again for the comment, vote and share, always appreciated.
As it was across her career Thins was not just 2nd billed invariably to male stars such as Gable/Bill Powell/Leach/Burt Reynolds/Clifton Webb/Paul Newman/Chuck/Chevalíer/Monty Clift/Rex Harrison/John Gavin but also to female stars such as Joanne Woodward/Jeanette MacDonald/Carole Lombard/my Doris/Jeanne Crain/Ann Harding/Marie Dressler/and Harlow. In Wife v Secretary Thins was 3rd billed to Gable and Lombard and in Libeled Lady she was 3rd billed to Harlow and Bill Powell. In Love Me Tonight Thins was 5th billed in a cast headed by Chevalier and MacDonald. Again CHECK IT OUT!
If you are going to take into account Thins’ entire CAREER box office consistencey would seem to dictate that you should also have some regard to the level of importance of her co-stars in ALL the movies comprised in that career box office and her billing and status in relation to those co-stars in those movies. Also you can’t for example logically give her the same credit for box office takings in the days before she became a star and those after her heyday when she was in effect a “has-been” as you do for the grosses DURING her heyday.
For me therefore to insist that Thins is “the greatest” because of the career total of her movies is as arbitrary as saying that in the 1940s Walter Brennan was greater than Wayne/Hope/Cooper/Bogie/Tracy/Garland/Leach because Walter’s total box office for that decade was greater than theirs – see Table of Box Office LEADERS [HIS title] on Bruce’s page for the Top Stars of the 1940s. Certainly Old Cantankerous would have debated the point with WH. Now Spence was a man who knew the importance of billing!