Ralph Clanton
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Ralph Clanton (September 11, 1914 - December 29, 2002) was an American character actor. Although his name is not familiar to audiences, he did play a significant supporting role in a classic film which is revived regularly. His most often seen performance is as the Comte De Guiche in the 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac, the first sound version in English of Edmond Rostand's classic play, and the film for which José Ferrer won his only Academy Award for Best Actor. Besides Ferrer as Cyrano, Clanton was the only holdover from the cast of the 1946 Broadway revival of the play, and would play the role of De Guiche opposite him once more, in a New York City Center production in 1953.
In addition to playing De Guiche in "Cyrano", Clanton was featured in seven different episodes of Alfred Hitchcock's television show, as well as making several appearances on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. In 1976, he played the role of George Washington in a PBS television production of Sidney Kingsley's The Patriots, a drama that had itself been produced on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1963, but without Clanton. He also played the role of Jasper Delaney on the TV soap operas, Another World and its spinoff, Somerset.
He played the role of Mr. Ingram in the sci-fi thriller The 27th Day.
He played guest star roles on numerous television series, including Perry Mason, in addition to appearing on Broadway in the role of Claude Nau in Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, as well as in several Shakespeare productions. One of his last roles was a bit part in the hit Dan Aykroyd - Eddie Murphy film Trading Places, in 1983.
In a playbill for the 1946 revival of Cyrano de Bergerac he is listed as a direct descendant of members of the infamous Clanton gang, which took part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.559 |
Birthday | 1914-09-11 |
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1957
The 27th Day
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Johnny Tremain
5.8/29
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1950
Cyrano de Bergerac
6.9/59
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Hot Cars
5.679/14
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They Were Not Divided
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1983
Trading Places
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1975
Death Be Not Proud
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Out of This World
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1957
Pharaoh's Curse
4.3/18
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The Shady Hill Kidnapping
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1976
The Patriots
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They Might Be Giants
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Panic in Year Zero!
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1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
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Undersea Girl
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No Time to Be Young
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The Vagabond King
6/8
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1953
San Antone
5/2
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1949
Canadian Pacific
5.3/29
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Zorro, the Avenger
9/6
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