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Ralph Moody

Ralph Moody

Actor · 1886 – 1971 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ralph Moody (November 5, 1886–September 6, 1971) was an American actor with over 50 movie and over 100 television appearances plus numerous radio appearances. Moody spent more than four decades working in stock theater throughout the United States, including having his own troupe for almost half of that span. In 1939, he began working in radio at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. Later, he became an announcer and actor at WLW radio in Cincinnati. Moody was a regular on radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke, and also performed on the Roy Rogers Show, Wild Bill Hickok and X Minus One. He portrayed Gramps on The Trouble with the Truitts on NBC Rado. At the age of 62, Moody began a string of film and television appearances, including films such as Road to Bali, Toward the Unknown, The Legend of Tom Dooley, and The Story of Ruth. On television, he played Jay Burrage in The Rifleman. He was also seen in episodes of Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, Circus Boy, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Have Gun - Will Travel, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, Wanted Dead or Alive, and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. He was also among a rotation of actors used by Jack Webb in the 1950s version as well as the 1967-70 revival of Dragnet, and in 1970 appeared in the last Dragnet episode produced by Webb. His most frequent television roles were as a kindly old man or Native American. CLR

Movies24

  • Movie7.7

    Strangers on a Train

    1951 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Chase

    1966 · 337 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Ace in the Hole

    1951 · 777 votes

  • Movie7.4

    The Gunfighter

    1950 · 216 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Kid Galahad

    1962 · 53 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Rounders

    1965 · 32 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Pickup on South Street

    1953 · 333 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Many Rivers to Cross

    1955 · 19 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Affair in Trinidad

    1952 · 61 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Red Mountain

    1951 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Last Hunt

    1956 · 44 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Strange Lady in Town

    1955 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.6
  • Movie6.5

    The Outsider

    1961 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.2

    I Died a Thousand Times

    1955 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Far Horizons

    1955 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie6.0

    Bright Leaf

    1950 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Road to Bali

    1952 · 83 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Homicidal

    1961 · 89 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Rage at Dawn

    1955 · 30 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Toward the Unknown

    1956 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Column South

    1953 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Rock Island Trail

    1950 · 6 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV8.0

    Get Smart

    1965 · 448 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV7.1

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1958 · 38 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Lone Ranger

    1949 · 36 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dragnet

    1967 · 23 votes

  • TV6.2

    Black Saddle

    1959 · 5 votes

  • TV7.3

    Law of the Plainsman

    1959 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV5.9

    Johnny Ringo

    1959 · 8 votes

  • TV5.2

    Then Came Bronson

    1969 · 5 votes

  • TV6.3

    Gunslinger

    1961 · 3 votes

  • TV7.2