{"id":1805,"date":"2023-06-17T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2023-06-25T04:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:20:54","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-ralph-bellamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/06\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-ralph-bellamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Ralph Bellamy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">June 17, 1904 \u2013 November 29, 1991<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in Chicago, Illinois \u2013 Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, film, and television. During Mr. Bellamy\u2019s illustrious career he portrayed a wide variety of roles that garnered acclaim and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for <em>The Awful Truth<\/em> (1937). Many fans may remember his most recent roles, such as 1983\u2019s comedy hit \u2013 <em>Trading Places<\/em>, or the 1990 romantic comedy <em>Pretty Woman<\/em>; but it is his critical roles as Colonel Paul Montford in 1941\u2019s THE WOLF MAN, Dr. Paul Hallet in 1938\u2019s THE CRIME OF DOCTOR HALLET, and Erik Ernst in 1942\u2019s THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN that secures his deserved status among the esteemed CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1806\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Bellamy photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, 1904 \u2013 November 29, 1991 Born in Chicago, Illinois \u2013 Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, film, and television. During Mr. Bellamy\u2019s illustrious career he portrayed a wide variety of roles that garnered acclaim and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,33,32,9,10,536,64],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-frankenstein","tag-happybirthday","tag-horror","tag-movie","tag-ralphbellamy","tag-thewolfman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ralph-Bellamy_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}