Ralph Moody
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 05, 1886
Deathday: September 16, 1971
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No. 5 Checked Out
1956-01-18
No. 5 Checked Out
Overview: A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-18
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The Outsider
1961-12-27
The Outsider
Overview: Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Road to Bali
1953-01-29
Road to Bali
Overview: Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-29
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I Died a Thousand Times
1955-11-09
I Died a Thousand Times
Overview: After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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Affair in Trinidad
1952-07-29
Affair in Trinidad
Overview: A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Genres: Romance Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-29
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Seminole
1953-03-20
Seminole
Overview: Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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Many Rivers to Cross
1955-02-04
Many Rivers to Cross
Overview: Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-04
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Toward the Unknown
1956-09-27
Toward the Unknown
Overview: Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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Homicidal
1961-07-26
Homicidal
Overview: A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-26
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The Steel Jungle
1956-03-10
The Steel Jungle
Overview: The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-10
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The Impatient Heart
1971-10-07
The Impatient Heart
Overview: A social worker has problems in her private life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-07
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Strange Lady in Town
1955-04-12
Strange Lady in Town
Overview: Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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The Last Hunt
1956-04-30
The Last Hunt
Overview: A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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The Legend of Tom Dooley
1959-07-01
The Legend of Tom Dooley
Overview: Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Alice in Wonderland
2010-02-23
Alice in Wonderland
Overview: This production was originally broadcast on radio back in the 1940s. It was put on DVD with new animation.
Genres: Family Animation Fantasy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Going Steady
1958-02-01
Going Steady
Overview: Two high-school students keep their marriage a secret from their family and friends, but they're forced to confess when the teenage wife learns she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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The Rounders
1965-01-08
The Rounders
Overview: Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-08
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Kid Galahad
1962-11-29
Kid Galahad
Overview: After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-29
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Tumbleweed
1953-12-01
Tumbleweed
Overview: Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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The Living Bible
1952-01-01
The Living Bible
Overview: Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Chase
1966-02-18
The Chase
Overview: The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958-06-04
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Overview: Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-04
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The Gunfighter
1950-06-23
The Gunfighter
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
Ace in the Hole
Overview: An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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The Monster That Challenged the World
1957-06-14
The Monster That Challenged the World
Overview: Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-14
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Rock Island Trail
1950-05-18
Rock Island Trail
Overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Square Dance Jubilee
1949-11-11
Square Dance Jubilee
Overview: Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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Column South
1953-05-20
Column South
Overview: In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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Pawnee
1957-09-07
Pawnee
Overview: Pale Arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the Pawnee Chief. With wagon trains now encroaching on Pawnee land, the Chief sends Pale Arrow to be with the white people. Now known as Paul Fletcher, he takes the job of wagon train scout. The Chief wants peace but when he dies, Crazy Fox takes over and now leads the Pawnees in an attack against that wagon trai
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-07
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Reprisal!
1956-11-02
Reprisal!
Overview: New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Rage at Dawn
1955-03-26
Rage at Dawn
Overview: In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-26
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The Big Fisherman
1959-08-04
The Big Fisherman
Overview: Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-04
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Guns Don't Argue
1957-01-01
Guns Don't Argue
Overview: The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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24 Hour Alert
1955-12-22
24 Hour Alert
Overview: This short film looks at the purpose and methods of the U.S. Air Force, and the difficulties of getting along with civilian neighbors. The story involves members of an Air Force base proving their worth to the mayor of a nearby town who would like to see them gone due to noise pollution.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Pickup on South Street
1953-05-27
Pickup on South Street
Overview: In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-27
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Bright Leaf
1950-06-16
Bright Leaf
Overview: Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-16
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Talk About a Stranger
1952-04-18
Talk About a Stranger
Overview: Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-18
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The Far Horizons
1955-07-04
The Far Horizons
Overview: Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-04
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Red Mountain
1951-11-01
Red Mountain
Overview: Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Man-Eater of Kumaon
1948-11-08
Man-Eater of Kumaon
Overview: A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
1948-04-01
Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
Overview: Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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