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