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Ralph Sanford (May 21, 1899 – June 20, 1963) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 200 films between 1930 and 1960, mostly bit parts or supporting roles. Sanford frequently appeared in Westerns and often portrayed “tough guys”. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Ralph Sanford Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ralph Sanford |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Springfield, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1899-05-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday | 1963-06-20 |
Ralph Sanford Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| A Night for Crime | Det. Hoffman | 1943-02-18 | A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it’s just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth… |
| Alaska Highway | Frosty Gimble | 1943-06-24 | Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two… |
| French Leave | Skipper Muldoon | 1948-04-10 | Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and “Pappy” Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi… |
| There Goes Kelly | Police Lt. Marty Phillips | 1945-02-16 | Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station…. |
| High Explosive | Squinchy Andrews | 1943-03-27 | Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend “Buzz” Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto ca… |
| Rogue River | Max Bonner | 1951-02-15 | The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he’d once fr… |
| What Price Pants | Bartender (uncredited) | 1931-08-21 | The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a … |
| The Glass Menagerie | Mendoza | 1950-09-28 | An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be…. |
| Hi-Jacked | Stephen Clark | 1950-07-07 | A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers…. |
| Adventures of Kitty O’Day | Mike, Police Detective Sergeant | 1945-01-19 | A telephone operator (Jean Parker) plays homicide detective with her boyfriend (Peter Cookson), making it harder for the police…. |
| High Powered | Sheriff | 1945-02-27 | Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed…. |
| Fort Defiance | Jed Brown, Stagecoach Driver | 1951-10-09 | It’s just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to … |
| Salt Water Daffy | Cop (uncredited) | 1933-09-16 | In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor…. |
| Sea Tiger | Fat Harry, Innkeeper | 1952-07-27 | Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Ja… |
| The Policy Girl | Radio Station Usher | 1934-08-11 | An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy…. |
| Torpedo Boat | Hector Bobry | 1942-01-24 | Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who’ve invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title)…. |
| Who’s a Dummy? | 1941-11-28 | Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leo… | |
| Thunderhead – Son of Flicka | Charlie Sargent | 1945-03-15 | A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse…. |
| Kissing Time | Corporal (uncredited) | 1933-12-16 | An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant…. |
| Wildcat | ‘Grits’ O’Malley | 1942-09-03 | Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the o… |
| While the Cat’s Away | Superintendent (uncredited) | 1936-01-04 | Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home…. |
| The Radio Murder Mystery | Pat the detective | 1933-03-06 | This short, introduced and closed by Louis Sobol, features Richard Gordon as ‘Sherlock Holmes of the air.’ Not long after one broadcast explaining… |
| Count the Hours! | Alvin Taylor | 1953-04-01 | A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial…. |
| They Made Me a Killer | Patrolman Roach | 1946-05-03 | A fugitive receives help from a victim’s sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges…. |
| I Live on Danger | Angie Moss | 1942-06-16 | A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss…. |
| Up In Smoke | Sam | 1957-12-22 | The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil…. |
| So You Want to Move | 1950-08-19 | Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how…. | |
| It’s a Joke, Son! | Knifey | 1947-01-15 | Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merke… |
| Missing Women | Sam (man at ballpark) | 1951-02-23 | A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband — while on their honeymoon — is killed during a robbery…. |
| Submarine Alert | Agent Freddie Grayson | 1943-06-28 | Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Go… |
| Undercover Agent | Joe Blake | 1939-04-19 | A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring…. |
| Union Station | Detective Fay | 1950-10-04 | Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try … |
| Minesweeper | Seaman Cox | 1943-11-10 | A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is… |
| Quiet, Please | Tony (uncredited) | 1939-07-01 | A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie’s production…. |
| Champion | Hammond | 1949-04-09 | An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up…. |
| My Pal Trigger | Auctioneer Al | 1946-07-10 | Gabby doesn´t want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy’s. When Sovereign and Roy’s horse escape, the Sovereign get shoot accidentally by… |
| The Forty-Niners | Bartender Joe | 1954-07-30 | 1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers…. |
| Sweethearts of the U.S.A. | Gilhooley | 1944-03-07 | A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime…. |
| Father’s Wild Game | First Policeman | 1950-12-03 | The fourth entry in Monogram’s “Father” series. Henry Latham decides he’ll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store…. |
| Sea Racketeers | Henchman Turk | 1937-08-20 | J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he’s running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard…. |
| Web of Danger | Peterson, 2nd Crew Foreman | 1947-06-10 | Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O’Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly… |
| Shotgun | Chris | 1955-04-23 | a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they fo… |
| Lost in a Harem | Mr. Ormulu | 1944-12-01 | Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle…. |
| So You Think You’re Not Guilty | Prison Warden (uncredited) | 1950-04-15 | Joe McDoakes pleads “not guilty” to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickl… |
| No Place for a Lady | Hal, truck driver-henchman | 1943-02-11 | A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it… |
| No Hands on the Clock | Officer Gimble | 1941-12-01 | A wise-cracking private detective’s honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case…. |
| Footsteps in the Night | Bartender (Uncredited) | 1957-04-14 | Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like…. |
| Let’s Live Again | Policeman | 1948-02-27 | The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother…. |
| Kentucky Jubilee | Steve Frome | 1951-05-18 | A movie director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film…. |
| The Patient in Room 18 | Detective Donahue | 1938-01-08 | Choreographer Bobby Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.’ The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles… |
| The Oregon Trail | John Decker | 1959-08-31 | In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sen… |
| Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Police Lt. Steve Mulford | 1948-09-19 | Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot…. |
| Take It or Leave It | Taxi Driver | 1944-07-17 | A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife’s doctor…. |
| Copacabana | Liggett | 1947-05-30 | A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub — as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his girl…. |
| So You Want to Be in Pictures | Anthony Anguish (uncredited) | 1947-06-07 | Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in…. |
| Down in San Diego | Man (uncredited) | 1941-08-01 | A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at w… |
| Blonde Inspiration | Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited) | 1941-02-07 | A writer (John Shelton) of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher (Albert Dekker) want to pay for…. |
| Blondes at Work | Detective Ed Healy (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 | When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in… |
| The Mystery of the Riverboat | Sawyer, the garage owner [Chs. 5, 10] | 1944-10-24 | A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it…. |
| The Big Country | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1958-09-30 | Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach … |
| Let’s Make It Legal | Police Lieutenant (uncredited) | 1951-10-31 | A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much…. |
| Come on Danger | Bartender | 1942-06-05 | When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder…. |
| Beginning of the End | Man with Red Cross Representative [extra] | 1957-06-28 | An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation … |
| The Heiress | Captain of the Castle Queen (uncredited) | 1949-10-06 | Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than … |
| Blondie Goes Latin | Sailor Chasing Dagwood (uncredited) | 1941-02-27 | The 8th film in the Blondie series – Blondie Goes Latin. Mr. Dithers invites the Bumstead’s on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as… |
| Lucky Legs | Bartender | 1942-10-01 | Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the … |
| Meet the Stewarts | Cop (Uncredited) | 1942-05-21 | A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other … |
| The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance | Police Desk Sergeant | 1941-03-06 | A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he’s framed for murder…. |
| Never Say Goodbye | Cab Driver (uncredited) | 1946-11-09 | Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star… |
| Four Mothers | Bill (uncredited) | 1941-01-04 | Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together…. |
| Appointment with Danger | Maxie Wilder | 1950-04-07 | Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who’ve allegedly murdered a U.S… |
| Gaucho Serenade | Motorcycle Cop | 1940-05-09 | Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene’s hor… |
| Cross-Country Romance | Henry | 1940-07-12 | Chase across the country romance…. |
| Tear Gas Squad | Officer | 1940-05-04 | A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman…. |
| Kid Nightingale | First Drunk at Soxey’s (uncredited) | 1939-11-03 | A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter…. |
| Maisie Goes to Reno | Policeman (Uncredited) | 1944-08-15 | A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife…. |
| East of the River | Policeman (uncredited) | 1940-11-09 | Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl…. |
| Stranger on the Third Floor | Truck Driver in Accident (uncredited) | 1940-08-16 | Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his “evidence” has sentenced the wrong man to death…. |
| Smashing the Money Ring | Second Night Guard (uncredited) | 1939-10-21 | T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop…. |
| Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite | Arresting Officer #1 (uncredited) | 1939-08-12 | Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll…. |
| Rhubarb | Eddie – Brooklyn Police Chief (uncredited) | 1951-08-29 | Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro basebal… |
| Girls on Probation | First Detective | 1938-10-22 | A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer’s heart…. |
| They Drive by Night | Driver in Cafe (uncredited) | 1940-07-26 | Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri… |
| Dance, Girl, Dance | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1940-08-30 | Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career… |
| Dodge City | Brawler (uncredited) | 1939-04-08 | In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line…. |
| Obliging Young Lady | Pudgy – Court Policeman (uncredited) | 1942-04-01 | A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents’ divorce…. |
| You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man | Truck Driver | 1939-02-17 | Fields plays “Larsen E. Whipsnade”, the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step a… |
| If I Were King | Cook | 1938-09-28 | King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash… |
| Two Sisters from Boston | Recording Studio Doorman (uncredited) | 1946-06-06 | Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she’s a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house … |
Credit: TMDB
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