Ralph Moody
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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
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Movies (42)
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · (voice) (archive footage)
The Impatient Heart
1971 · Rothchild
The Wild Country
1970 · Book
The Chase
1966 · Townsman (uncredited)
The Rounders
1965 · Horse Doctor (uncredited)
Kid Galahad
1962 · Peter J. Prohosko (uncredited)
The Outsider
1961 · Uncle
Homicidal
1961 · First Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
The Big Fisherman
1959 · Aged Pharisee
The Legend of Tom Dooley
1959 · Doc Henry
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958 · Padre Vincente Esteban
Going Steady
1958 · Justice of the Peace
Pawnee
1957 · Chief Wise Eagle
Guns Don't Argue
1957 · Arthur 'Pa' Barker
The Monster That Challenged the World
1957 · Watchman at Lock 57
Reprisal!
1956 · Matara
Toward the Unknown
1956 · Harvey Gilbert
The Last Hunt
1956 · Indian agent
The Steel Jungle
1956 · Andy Griffith
No. 5 Checked Out
1956 · Jarvis
24 Hour Alert
1955 · City Councilman Boggs
I Died a Thousand Times
1955 · Pa Goodhue
The Far Horizons
1955 · Chief Le Borgne (uncredited)
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Gen. Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Rage at Dawn
1955 · Noah Euall
Many Rivers to Cross
1955 · Sandak
Tumbleweed
1953 · Aguila
Pickup on South Street
1953 · Coffin Boat Captain (uncredited)
Column South
1953 · Joe Copper Face
Seminole
1953 · Kulak
Road to Bali
1952 · Bhoma Da
Affair in Trinidad
1952 · Coroner (uncredited)
Talk About a Stranger
1952 · Shaw, Hardware Storekeeper
Red Mountain
1951 · George Meredyth, Undertaker
Ace in the Hole
1951 · Kusac - Miner (uncredited)
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Seedy Man at Carnival (uncredited)
Bright Leaf
1950 · Blacksmith (uncredited) (voice)
The Gunfighter
1950 · Old Man (uncredited)
Rock Island Trail
1950 · Keokuk
Square Dance Jubilee
1949 · Indian Chief
Man-Eater of Kumaon
1948 · Villager
Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
1948 · Wilkins (uncredited)
TV shows (22)
Night Gallery
1970 · Jake (segment "The Little Black Bag")
Then Came Bronson
1969 · Viejo
Adam-12
1968 · Gus Archer
Dragnet
1967 · Matt Kemper, Lou Adams
Get Smart
1965 · Carruthers
Gunslinger
1961 · Land Agent Cartwright
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Pa Myrtlebank
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Sam, Carl Cobb
Law of the Plainsman
1959 · Danforth
Bonanza
1959 · Tall Pony
Black Saddle
1959 · Judge Tennifree
The Rifleman
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Victor Flam
Perry Mason
1957 · Jenkins
Wagon Train
1957 · Indian Chief (uncredited)
On Trial
1956 · Biddeford, Oswald
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · Jarvis
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Local Citizen
Gunsmoke
1955 · Long Robe, Harvey
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Conductor, Realtor, Doc, Stranger, Uncle Lee, Jarvis Miller, Moreland
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Rogers
The Lone Ranger
1949 · Swift Eagle