Ralph Moody (actor)

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.

Ralph Moody
Moody in Road to Bali
Born	November 5, 1886 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	September 6, 1971 (aged 84) Burbank, California
Resting place	Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Years active	1948-1971

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.[1]

In 1939, he began working in radio at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas.[1] Later, he became an announcer and actor at WLW radio in Cincinnati.[2] Moody was a regular on radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke, and also performed on the Roy Rogers Show, Wild Bill Hickok, and X Minus One.[3] He portrayed Gramps on The Trouble with the Truitts on NBC Rado.[4]

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.[5] 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, Rescue 8, 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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1948	Tex Granger	Wilkins	Uncredited
1948	Man-Eater of Kumaon	Villager
1949	Square Dance Jubilee	Indian Chief
1950	Rock Island Trail	Keokuk	Uncredited
1950	The Gunfighter	Old Man	Uncredited
1950	Bright Leaf	Blacksmith	Uncredited voice
1951	Ace in the Hole	Kusac - Miner	Uncredited
1951	Strangers on a Train	Seedy Man at Carnival	Uncredited
1951	Red Mountain	George Meredyth, Undertaker
1952	Talk About a Stranger	Shaw, Hardware Storekeeper	Uncredited
1952	Carrie	Vagrant	Uncredited
1952	Wagons West	Kaw Chief	Uncredited
1952	The Story of Will Rogers	Dr. Busheyhead	Uncredited
1952	Affair in Trinidad	Coroner
1952	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Villager / Peddler	Uncredited
1952	My Man and I	Rogers	Uncredited
1952	Road to Bali	Bhoma Da
1953	Seminole	Kulak
1953	Salome	Old Scholar	Uncredited
1953	The Juggler	Mukhtar	Scenes deleted
1953	Column South	Joe Copper Face
1953	Pickup on South Street	Coffin Boat Captain	Uncredited
1953	Tumbleweed	Aguila
1954	The Rocket Man	Mr. Farrow	Uncredited
1954	Day of Triumph	Pharisee	Uncredited
1955	Many Rivers to Cross	Sandak
1955	Rage at Dawn	Noah Euall	Uncredited
1955	Strange Lady in Town	Gen. Lew Wallace	Uncredited
1955	The Far Horizons	Le Borgne
1955	I Died a Thousand Times	Pa Goodhue
1956	The Steel Jungle	Andy Griffith
1956	The Last Hunt	Indian Agent
1956	Toward the Unknown	H. G. Gilbert
1956	Reprisal!	Matara
1957	The Monster That Challenged the World	Watchman at Lock 57	Uncredited
1957	Pawnee	Chief Wise Eagle
1957	Perry Mason	George Ballard	The Sun Bather's Diary
1958	Going Steady	Justice of the Peace
1958	Cry Terror!	Kelly's Dentist	Uncredited
1958	The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold	Padre Vincente Esteban
1959	The Legend of Tom Dooley	Doc Henry
1959	The Big Fisherman	Aged Pharisee
1960	The Story of Ruth	Cleshed	Uncredited
1961	Posse from Hell	Henry	Uncredited
1961	Homicidal	First Hotel Clerk	Uncredited
1961	The Outsider	Uncle
1962	Kid Galahad	Peter J. Prohosko	Uncredited
1965	The Rounders	Horse Doctor	Uncredited
1966	The Chase	Townsman	Uncredited

References

1. Bentley, Bob (May 20, 1942). "Lend Me Your Ears". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Ohio, Cincinnati. p. 7. Retrieved 22 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Feck, Luke (May 8, 1962). "Veteran Character Actor". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Ohio, Cincinnati. p. 6. Retrieved 22 March 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507678-8. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
4. Terrace, Vincent (1999). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 339–340. ISBN 978-0-7864-4513-4.
5. Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 895. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.

External links

• Ralph Moody at IMDb
• Ralph Moody at Find a Grave