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Ralph Moody
Ralph Moody may refer to: * Ralph Moody (racing driver) (1917–2004), American racing driver and team owner *Ralph Moody (actor) 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 Un ... (1886–1971), American actor * Ralph Moody (writer) (1898–1982), American author * Ralph E. Moody (1915–1997), politician and judge from Alaska {{hndis, Moody, Ralph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Moody (racing Driver)
Ralph Alphonso Moody, Jr. (September 10, 1917 – June 9, 2004) was an American racing driver and team owner. After a brief career racing, including in NASCAR and USAC sanctioned stock car competition, he retired to become a team co-owner of Holman-Moody. Background Moody built his first Model T Ford race car in 1935, and ran it on nights and weekends. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, and drove a tank under the command of General George S. Patton. He married his wife Mitzi in 1949, and they moved to Florida so that he could race all year. After the Second World War while still living in Massachusetts, Moody was an active midget chauffeur in the now-defunct Bay State Midget Racing Association. Stock car career Moody won four NASCAR races in 1956 for owner Pete DePaolo, winner of the 1925 Indianapolis 500. Moody finished eighth in points, with 21 Top-10 finishes in 35 races. Moody raced the first third of 1957 until Ford and the other American automobile man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Moody (actor)
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, Ohio. Moody was a regular supporting actor, in various roles, on radio broadcasts of ''Gunsmoke'' and '' Dragnet'', and also performed on the '' Roy Rogers Show'' and ''Wild Bill Hickok''.Dunning, op. cit."Wild Bill Hickok" pp. 721-722/ref> He portrayed Gramps on ''The Trouble with the Truitts'' on NBC Radio. 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 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Moody (writer)
Ralph Owen Moody (December 16, 1898 – June 20, 1982) was an American writer who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about the American West, though a few are set in New England. He was born in East hester, New Hampshire, and moved to Littleton, Colorado, in 1906 with his family when he was eight, in the hopes that a dry climate would improve his father Charles's tuberculosis. Moody detailed his experiences in Colorado in the first book of the Little Britches series, '' Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers''. Biography After his father died, eleven-year-old Moody assumed the duties of the "man of the house". He and his sister Grace combined ingenuity with very hard work in a variety of odd jobs, including starting a street baking business, to help their mother provide for their large family. The Moody clan returned to Boston some time after Charles's death because Ralph's mother, was served a subpoena but did not want to appear in court against a man she believed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |