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Ralph Truman
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Veteran British character player Ralph Truman was a pioneer radio actor and appeared in over 5000 broadcasts during his career. Born in London at the turn of the century, his overall film career was commendable but less enviable than his voice work on the airwaves. Originally from the stage, he had just finished a run of "Josef Suss" in 1930 when he moved directly into films, making his unbilled debut in the early talkie Farewell to Love (1931). Throughout the 1930s he would be found steadily in "B" films including The Bells (1931), That's My Uncle (1935), The Lad (1935), Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935), Under the Red Robe (1937) and Dinner at the Ritz (1937). In the 1940s the distinctively ba…
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Veteran British character player Ralph Truman was a pioneer radio actor and appeared in over 5000 broadcasts during his career. Born in London at the turn of the century, his overall film career was commendable but less enviable than his voice work on the airwaves. Originally from the stage, he had just finished a run of "Josef Suss" in 1930 when he moved directly into films, making his unbilled debut in the early talkie Farewell to Love (1931). Throughout the 1930s he would be found steadily in "B" films including The Bells (1931), That's My Uncle (1935), The Lad (1935), Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935), Under the Red Robe (1937) and Dinner at the Ritz (1937). In the 1940s the distinctively balding, hook-nosed actor found featured work in more important films such as his Mountjoy in Laurence Olivier's stellar Shakespearean piece Henry V (1944). A natural for period settings, Truman played the nefarious Monks in Oliver Twist (1948), and was part of the large-scale proceedings in Christopher Columbus (1949) and Treasure Island (1950), giving animated Robert Newton a run for the money in the latter with a ripe, over-the-top pirate performance as George Merry. Married to fellow radio artist Ellis Powell, he was best known in later years for playing men of high ranking or position (lords, captains, admirals, governors, etc.). He retired after appearing in two final period epics: Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). He passed away a few years later. - IMDb mini biography by: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
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Lady Caroline Lamb
as Admiral
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Rodzianko
El Cid
as King Ferdinand
Exodus
as Colonel
Under Ten Flags
as Admiral Bensen
Ben-Hur
as Aide to Tiberius (uncredited)
Web of Evidence
as Sir Matthew Sprott
The Spaniard's Curse
as Sir Robert Wyvern
The Good Companions
as George Memsford
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Vice Admiral
The Long Arm
as Colonel Blenkinsop
Wicked as They Come
as John Dowling
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Buchanan
The Black Tent
as Major Cross
Tons of Trouble
as Inspector Bridger
The Ship That Died of Shame
as Sir Richard
The Night My Number Came Up
as Wainwright
Beau Brummell
as Sir Ralph Sidley
The Master of Ballantrae
as Clarendon
Malta Story
as Vice Adm Willie Banks
The Golden Coach
as Duc de Castro
Quo Vadis
as Tigellinus
Treasure Island
as George Merry
No Poster
The Reluctant Widow
as Scowler
Christopher Columbus
as Captain
The Interrupted Journey
as Inspector Waterson
Eureka Stockade
as Gov. Hotham
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Comber
Oliver Twist
as Monks
Mrs. Fitzherbert
as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
as Merryvale
The Man Within
as Prison Interrogator
The Laughing Lady
as Lord Mandeville
No Poster
Papworth Village Settlement
as Narrator (voice)
Beware of Pity
as Maj. Sandor Balinkay
Lisbon Story
as Police Commissionaire
No Poster
Read All About It
as Robertson
Henry V
as Mountjoy - The French Herald
The Butler's Dilemma
as Bishop
Sabotage at Sea
as Horace Chandler
The Seventh Survivor
as Captain
The Saint in London
as Kussella
Black Eyes
as Diner
The Outsider
as Sir Nathan Israel
Life of St. Paul
as Orderly
South Riding
as Nursing Home Doctor
The Challenge
as Giordano
The Drum
as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Dinner at the Ritz
as Auctioneer
No Poster
Change for a Sovereign
as Archduke Paul
Secret Lives
as Prison Guard
Fire Over England
as Spanish Inquisition Representative (uncredited)
Dusty Ermine
as Second Thug (uncredited)
The Crimson Circle
as Lawrence Fuller
No Poster
The Marriage of Corbal
as Charles
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
as Sam Cohen
No Poster
Captain Bill
as Red
The Silent Passenger
as Saunders
No Poster
The Case of Gabriel Perry
as Inspector White
Three Witnesses
as Bellman
No Poster
The Perfect Flaw
as Richard Drexel
The Shadow
as Chief Inspector Elliot
No Poster
Partners Please
as CID Man
The Bells
as Blacksmith