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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
Swift Eagle
Tall Pony
Jenkins
Pa Myrtlebank
Realtor
Conductor
Doc
Stranger
Uncle Lee
Jarvis Miller
Moreland
Victor Flam
Gus Archer
Local Citizen
Jake (segment "The Little Black Bag")
Jarvis
Danforth
Long Robe
Harvey
Judge Tennifree
Sam
Carl Cobb
Noah Euall
Seedy Man at Carnival (uncredited)
Coffin Boat Captain (uncredited)
Bhoma Da
Old Man (uncredited)
Kusac - Miner (uncredited)
Townsman (uncredited)
Chief Le Borgne (uncredited)
Pa Goodhue
Horse Doctor (uncredited)
Coroner (uncredited)
George Meredyth, Undertaker
Blacksmith (uncredited) (voice)
Kulak
Sandak
Aguila
Peter J. Prohosko (uncredited)
Watchman at Lock 57
Gen. Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Uncle
Keokuk
Joe Copper Face
First Hotel Clerk (Uncredited)
Shaw, Hardware Storekeeper
Indian agent
Padre Vincente Esteban
Matara
Harvey Gilbert
(voice) (archive footage)
Wilkins (uncredited)
Doc Henry
Andy Griffith
Arthur 'Pa' Barker
Chief Wise Eagle
City Councilman Boggs
Villager
Zacharias
Rothchild
Indian Chief
Aged Pharisee
Jarvis
Justice of the Peace