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