Prolific Irish stage and screen actor, Ralph Bellamy began his career in the late 1920's. In 1937 he received an Academy Award nomination as supporting actor for the film The Awful Truth. He is one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild. Ralph along with fellow actors James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Frank Morgan and Frank McHugh were affectionately known as "The Irish Mafia". On television he was a regular on CBS' show To Tell the Truth and starred in his own detective series Follow That Man. He would go on to appear in another television drama called The Eleventh Hour and appeared in more than one hundred guest spots on various television programs. He is perhaps best known for his role in the 1983 film Trading Places.