FrameThrower · Actors · Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1940–1968
Born 17 June 1904 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · died 29 November 1991
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Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an 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, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937).
His film career began with The Secret Six (1931) starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the end of 1933, he had already appeared in 22 movies, most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) and the second lead in the action film Picture Snatcher with James Cagney (1933).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1940–1968
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1958
- Academy Honorary Award1987
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ralph takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 65% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Ralph takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 194 frames from Ralph Bellamy's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.