| Ralph Moody | |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1886 |
| Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Death Place: | Burbank, California |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Yearsactive: | 1948–1971 |
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.[1]
In 1939, he began working in radio at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. Later, he became an announcer and actor at WLW radio in Cincinnati, Ohio.[2] Moody was a regular on radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke and Dragnet, and also performed on the Roy Rogers Show and Wild Bill Hickok.[3] He portrayed Gramps on The Trouble with the Truitts on NBC Radio.[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, Mr. Adams and Eve, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Have Gun – Will Travel as Judge Howell in "The Silver Queen" (1958), Rawhide, Daniel Boone, Wanted Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, 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.
| 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 | General Lew Wallace | Uncredited | |
| 1955 | The Far Horizons | Le Borgne | ||
| 1955 | I Died a Thousand Times | Pa Goodhue | ||
| 1956 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Local Citizen | Season 1 Episode 33: "The Belfry" | |
| 1956 | The Steel Jungle | Andy Griffith | ||
| 1956 | The Last Hunt | Indian Agent | ||
| 1956 | Toward the Unknown | H. G. Gilbert | ||
| 1956 | Reprisal! | Matara | Played an Indian as the Grandfather to Halfbreed Frank Madden Guy Madison | |
| 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 | Gunsmoke | Kip Marston | "Old Comrade" S8E16 | |
| 1962 | Kid Galahad | Peter J. Prohosko | Uncredited | |
| 1963 | Perry Mason | Mr. Morgan | The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang | |
| 1965 | The Rounders | Horse Doctor | Uncredited | |
| 1966 | Gunsmoke | Joseph-Walks-In-Darkness | "Honor Before Justice" S11E24 | |
| 1966 | The Chase | Townsman | Uncredited |